Hudson leads the data science team at Emerging Concepts, applying over 20 years of technical leadership to help clients make confident real estate decisions. As Lead Data Analyst, he directs a team that assembles and correlates diverse data sources, including demographics, surveys, and mobile data to generate prioritized site recommendations for major restaurant chains expanding nationwide. His engineering foundation gives him a rare ability to both architect analytical pipelines and lead the teams that build them. Hudson has also applied AI and automation in a hospitality data marketplace context, using those tools to transform raw POS data into actionable intelligence.