Allan Engelhardt
Allan Engelhardt helps companies make money from data, insights, and executing the right actions. He makes data teams successful in a commercial environment to make businesses successful in a data-rich economy.
Allan is a leader who can bring data to the board, build confidence and achieve consensus in the right decisions, and give executives the courage to act. He operates strategically as well as tactically, and he is very much hands-on. He has had direct commercial responsibility for delivering financial returns on data, research, and insights.
Allan has a degree in experimental physics and mathematics, and he did his postgraduate work as a Fellow at CERN.
Education
CERN, Switzerland and Niels Bohr Insititute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
M.Sc. (Danish: cand.scient.) in experimental particle physics analysing data from CERN.
ECTS equivalent score for thesis: A
Interests
Allan spends most of his time outside the office with his young family, but you might just find him in a quiet spot with his sketch book and beloved watercolours, struggling with some difficult perspective or colour mix
Recent posts by Allan Engelhardt
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2026 | The AI Dependency Trap |
| Oct 28, 2025 | The AI Arms Race Has a Fatal Flaw. Are You Measuring What Matters? |
| Oct 20, 2025 | EARL Conference 2025 |
| Oct 19, 2025 | Are you building yesterday’s information architecture tomorrow? |
| Sep 29, 2025 | The myth of the graduate ‘jobpocalypse’? |
| Aug 3, 2025 | Stop Being a Data Scientist. Start Being a Data Craftsman. |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Why Most AI Projects Fail (And How to Fix Them) |
| Jun 18, 2025 | The data quality excuse (and why it’s holding you back) |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Why smart insurance executives are afraid of AI (and why they are not wrong) |
| May 18, 2025 | Most return to office policies are just lazy leadership |