About Kurt Thearling

Kurt Thearling is Vice President of Analytics at WEX, where he is responsible for accelerating the use of data and analytics across the company. He has twenty years of experience in analytics and has worked in industries ranging from financial services to biotechnology. Kurt joined WEX from advertising agency Digitas, where he led the advanced analytics practice in North America. Prior to Digitas he held leadership positions at Vertex, Capital One, and Wheelhouse, building data science teams and capabilities that identified and extracted new insights from data. Kurt received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and has multiple undergraduate engineering degrees from the University of Michigan. He has written numerous articles on the topic of analytics and was one of seven data scientists profiled in Wayne Eckerson’s 2012 book “Secrets of Analytical Leaders.”