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Colton
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Senior Data & Analytics Leader  ·  MBA

Stamford, CT

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$30M+
Annual Incentive Budget Managed
5,000+
People Paid Every Month
15
Years in Finance & Analytics
$38M
AUM Book Built at Merrill Lynch
Colton Riley
MBA · Stamford, CT

Data Leader.
Strategic Thinker.

I'm a data and analytics leader on Charter Communications' National Incentives team, where I design, model, and run the sales compensation plans for Charter's Small Business sales channels.

As a founding member of the team, I helped turn a fragmented regional program into one national, data-driven operation. Lately I've led our adoption of Claude, AWS, and Kiro to automate reporting and give analysts their time back.

Sales Compensation Financial Modeling AI / LLM Implementation Alteryx & Tableau Excel Advanced SQL Executive Presentations

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A Career Built on
Analytical Rigor.

Lead Data & Reporting Analyst

Charter Communications · 2022–Present

Founding member of the National Incentives team. Design and run sales compensation for the Small Business channels, managing a $30MM+ annual budget. Led AI implementation with Claude, AWS, and Kiro.

Financial Advisor

Merrill Lynch / Oppenheimer · 2017–2020

Built a $38MM AUM book serving High Net Worth clients. Migrated full book to Oppenheimer and collaborated on a $200MM Series B raise. Completed Bryant University's CFP education program.

Director of Finance

Tieback Realty Finance · 2013–2016

Deployed $250MM+ for a publicly traded REIT. Built a sophisticated Excel-based loan tracking dashboard managing 150 active loans simultaneously with P&L reporting.

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Built Outside
the Office.

When I'm not building dashboards or designing compensation models, I'm building these: small sites I design and run myself, each one on its own corner of coltonriley.com.

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