Ronak Parikh

Instructor of Professional Practice

Curriculum Vitae

Ronak Parikh is Managing Director at an advertising agency leading their privacy-based data solutions. Previously, he was a Principal Product Manager for Amazon Advertising, Vice President of Product Management for Data Solutions at Merkle and the Product Director for Dun & Bradstreet’s (D&B). Before D&B, Ronak served in Product Management and Engineering roles at Bloomberg L.P.

Ronak specializes in finding ways to monetize data and new product development. The products he has helped launch involve working with all aspects of data - curation, management, analytics, and presentation. He enjoys working on building products from concept to customer adoption by partnering across the organization.

Ronak currently lectures part-time in the MBA program at Rutgers Business School, where he teaches Business Forecasting within the Analytics and Information Management Concentration. He also serves as an advisory board member for a technology venture capital fund specializing in B2B products.

Ronak has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Masters in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Executive MBA Experience

Strategic Data Driven Management – Data Analytics at the Executive Level

As an executive, your success will be determined by your choices and decisions. Prior to the ubiquitous nature of data, decisions were made by borrowing learnings from experience. The probability of the decision being correct was based on similarity of the current situation and previous experience.

In today’s world, where data is being generated and stored by every business process, data can guide your decision making with certainty. You can run experiments to collect and analyze data to inform your strategy, thus fulfilling your business vision. The most successful companies make this a repeatable process and by doing so, they learn from data faster than their competition.

This powerhouse session will develop your data driven competency. It will empower you to build and lead teams to identify opportunities of strategic importance and will equip you with tools and techniques to transform organization data assets into insights and knowledge. By the end of this session, you will develop an analytical mindset to make decisions with confidence.

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Mini-MBA: Data-Driven Management

The Mini-MBA in Data-Driven Management will provide business leaders with the knowledge, tools, and techniques to manage and use data to accelerate business opportunities in an evolving data landscape. Data management professionals will learn to complement important technical skills with the business tools and language to partner as a cross-functional thought leader.

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Mini-MBA for Engineers and Technology Managers

Our Mini-MBA for Engineers and Technology Managers offers the opportunity to expand your contribution beyond technical solutions to robust leadership. Master the nomenclature and understand the methodology that will enable you to ask the right questions and provide effective solutions.

In Class program: $4995.00

Online program: $3495.00

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Sep 08 - Dec 01, 2025

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Mini-MBA: Team Management Essentials

The transition from individual contributor to team leader is an exciting one, but without training or guidance becoming a successful manager can be stressful and scary. Understanding how to motivate employees, provide feedback and maintain morale rarely comes naturally.

In Class program: $2495.00

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Oct 07, 2025 - Jan 05, 2026

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