Sears Merritt
Head Of Enterprise Technology & Experience (CIO) at Barings
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSears Merritt is a seasoned technology executive and CIO with 13+ years at MassMutual driving enterprise technology, cybersecurity, data and AI strategy and leading multi-hundred-million dollar budgets and global teams. He built the firm’s data science and analytics capability from the ground up—deploying 200+ predictive models, founding a wholly-owned AI startup, and establishing the life insurance industry’s first data and AI governance program. Sears has delivered measurable business impact through generative AI and digital products, major cloud migrations that reduced unit costs and improved security, and a wellness program that ties genetics and behavioral economics to product design. His background spans early engineering roles—architecting a regional telehealth network and creating a real-time probabilistic sports prediction platform—so he combines deep technical rigor with board-level strategic leadership. He holds advanced degrees including a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA from MIT Sloan, and maintains active advisory and board roles while mentoring talent across industry and academia.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Finance, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Finance at MIT Sloan School of ManagementDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (39)
visualization10
gradient-descent10
python10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
slack10
scikit-learn10
data-analysis10
mysql9
postgresql9
dashboard9
analytics9
metabase9
rest9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
merritts/GradientDescent
Apr 2013 - May 2017
Gradient descent algorithms for linear and logistic regression
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
gradient-descentlogistic-regression
merritts/EspnScraper
Apr 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 8 months
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