Anna (Anya) Skripets, PhD, MBA, currently serves as an Instructor in Business Technology Management at the University of Calgary since September 2023. Prior experience includes a role as Senior Data Analyst at Benevity from November 2019 to September 2023 and Senior Business Analyst at Robert Half from September 2018 to September 2019. Anna's expertise extends to consulting, having worked as a Startup Consultant at ATB Financial and as a self-employed consultant focusing on business analysis, financial modeling, grant applications, and data analysis from 2012 to 2015. Previous positions also include Manager of Business Analytics at Yandex, Data Scientist at L'Oréal, Senior Data Analyst at Mobile TeleSystems, and IT Analyst at Mars. Anna holds an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business, a Certificate in Fintech from Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and a PhD in Mathematical Modeling in Economics from Saint Petersburg State University.