Software & Platforms
Data-to-Decision Innovation SW
Elephant Ventures has a data-to-decision rapid deployment framework that lets you rapidly develop and deploy data management ecosystems from cloud APIs through distributed devices.
Field of Expertise
Innovation, Digital Transformation, Data, Analytics, ML, AI, Agile, Lean Product Development, Startups, Corporate Innovation
Expertise
Art Shectman is the Founder of Elephant Ventures, a Data-driven Innovation and Agile/Lean Product Development & Engineering firm based in New York City and Manila. He is a visionary futurist, digital architect and venture strategist with more than 25 years of experience delivering cutting edge technology solutions spanning a broad range of technologies. He has spent his entire career integrating and building upon cutting edge technologies to produce functional systems for use today. Mr. Shectman is frequently called upon as a System Engineering expert to help build or diagnose and correct extremely complex systems. He has an extremely diverse background of experiences, from startup whispering and venture foundry operations, to debugging people and process to get to business value faster. His hands on engineering experiences span the technology landscape from artificially intelligent robots to high security trading networks, cryptocurrency trading automation to giant billboards in times square and green vending machine prototypes. His experience includes clients in industries that range from advertising and casinos to financial services, supply chain, insurance, healthcare and the ad-tech/social media ecosystem. He has consulted at the executive level for Fortune 1000 companies. His recent experiences include complex applied mathematics for marketing optimization and performance engineering for large scale data warehouse analytics and trend discovery. Mr. Shectman has been providing strategy in Digital Transformation and Innovative Technology to US and global companies for the last decade. He has also provided hyper-accurate pre and post investment assessments to venture capital firms about the likely success of proposed teams and investments. Mr. Shectman holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and worked in the MIT Artificial Intelligence laboratory building and programming autonomous micro-robots for use on land and underwater for the US military. A genuine founder’s story is always at the heart of an admirable company. Art Shectman started Elephant Ventures because he had a vision of bringing great people together and giving them the space and means to play and explore. His underlying philosophy in life is also his core philosophy in business – “our differences make us better,” and every day, Art encourages people to tap into their unique strengths in order to share a new perspective with the people around them. Elephant Ventures is a company comprised of people who reflect the power of diverse thinking, diverse backgrounds and quirky personalities, united by a single desire, to freely explore what can be done at the edge of possibility. Art Shectman is not just a remarkable entrepreneur, he’s an entrepreneur with a heart and his heart is what’s made it possible for him to build and lead teams that are capable of doing amazing with and for others. Apart from Elephant Ventures, Art is also Co-Founder and President of Ultranauts, a social impact firm proving that Cognitive Diversity is a competitive advantage by employing data quality and software testing engineers who are on the Autism spectrum. Art and one of his fraternity brothers from MIT started Ultranauts, a software testing and data quality engineering consultancy that provides opportunities for people on the Autism Spectrum to tap into what makes them different so they can excel. Seven years after being founded, Ultra is not only a profitable business, it’s a sustainable engine for social change and one of the largest employers of Autism Spectrum talent in the world.