Dave Torgerson serves as Chief Analytics Officer at Sentara Healthcare, where he works to coordinate the use of information in decision-making across the organization. He leads a team of 100+ analysts that support a wide constituency including senior leadership, hospitals, the health plan, and medical groups.

Dave started his career as a Nuclear Engineer in the U.S. Navy / Department of Energy. He spent several years as a management consultant specializing in strategy, analytics, and analytic organizational design, which led to series of industry-side roles in building analytic organizations and capabilities at U.S. Cellular, Gogo, and now at Sentara. He is passionate about the role data & analytics play in creating “clarity out of chaos” and how analytic capabilities can evolve into a strategic advantage for companies and organizations.

Dave has also been an instructor and guest lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and specifically has co-taught the Master of Business Analytics program Boot Camp, as well as a corresponding Coursera online course in business analytics. He has also guest lectured at Duke, the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, William & Mary, and Old Dominion University.

Dave holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Duke University, as well as a master’s in engineering administration from Virginia Tech and a Master equivalent in Nuclear Engineering from the Bettis Reactor Engineering School. He also spent a year in the Marketing PhD program at Duke.

Dave’s outside interests include triathlon, surfing, playing music, and building things - and he applies analytics to all of them.