Army Veteran Katie Crotty Praescient Analytics Co-Founder and CEO

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Military Intelligence in Business with Katie Crotty 

Katie Crotty is Praescient Analytics’ Co-Founder and CEO. She oversees operations of a big data analytics firm dedicated to supporting intelligence, investigations, and counter-fraud cases for public and private sector clients. Katie is a combat veteran who was triple-hatted as the Brigade Fusion Officer-in-Charge, Tier One Special Mission Unit Liaison, and Brigade Strike Force S2 for what was at the time the most technologically advanced Stryker Brigade Combat Team in the United States Army. 

Katie’s story started at age 17 when her parents had to sign a waiver for her to join the military; she wanted to travel the world.  Later, as a Military Intelligence Officer with the Army her team deployed down range for over a year as part of the surge. This experience helped shape her.  

“Really what the surge meant was a lot of commercial organizations ,what I like to call west coast tech firms that wanted their technology to be war torn.  We were given a lot of capacity and very little time to train. The big key that I learned from that was when you put really smart dedicated people and combine them with amazingly sophisticated technology you can do some pretty amazing things.” – Katie Crotty

This was Katie’s key take away from the military and the inspiration to start her own business.

Katie Crotty – The Risk

Transitioning out of the Army the basic thing Katie knew from a young age was intelligence.  Katie did 35 interviews on the side of the road while driving across the states trying to find her skill set and how it could translate into the civilian sector.  

After dozens of interviews, Katie took a risk with a start-up company that didn’t have a job title and didn’t quite know how she fit in but the founder liked her.  She became the Director of Internal Operations dealing with finances, recruiting, and building the foundation of a company. Katie then transitioned into Business Development dealing with IT, program management and how to build a business then ended as the Vice President of Consulting.

Uniquely Positioned

“I wanted to go back to the core idea I had in the military that if I could choose who I worked with on the left and the right and we could go and combine ourselves with really innovative technology, and I wanted to spin this small group of three people out and if we give a lot of nurture to it then we could really build it out-and that was the impetus of Praescient.” – Katie Crotty

The team had the unique ability to take a collection of diversely talented people that all had entrepreneurial spirit and gained their trust to create Praescient Analytics.  Big Data Analytics.  Solving investigative problems.  They needed to use a tool to get through the mass amount of data coming to them to make that educated guess as correct as possible.  This is how Praescient Analytics assists their clients.

Military Leadership in the Civilian Sector

Over the years I learned that I had to change in order to adapt within a civilian construct.   Patience and a good sense of humor keep her balanced. You can cut through a lot of cultural barriers between the military and civilian life by just bringing it down to what people want out of their job.  People just want to have a worthy and important job. It’s about understanding people and good people know good people and that is how you scale.

“At the end of the day what we try to create is an environment where you can transition out of the military into the civilian sector and still be a part of something that is changing the world on a day-to-day basis.”-Katie Crotty

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Check out these links for Katie Crotty

• www.praescientanalytics.com
• LinkedIn
• Katie Crotty:  katie@praescientanalytics.com

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