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Clint Nelsen is a Danish-American Risk Management professional, best known for coining the term Gorilla Analytics.



Early life

Nelsen grew up in the southwestern town of Curtis, Nebraska. His family moved to Marion, Iowa in 1985. Nelsen graduated in 1993 from Linn-Mar high school and initially enrolled in college as a Law Enforcement major. He spent the summers in Red River, New Mexico playing folk music and roping goats. Nelsen eventually graduated from the University of Iowa in 1998 with a double major in computer science and marketing.

Career

Upon graduation from the University of Iowa, Nelsen secured employment with John Deere Credit in Johnston, Iowa as a computer programmer specializing in mainframe COBOL and SAS programming along with relational database development using Oracle.

Nelsen ran away with his wife Mandi in 2001 to Evansville, Indiana to work for American General Finance as business analyst. In this new role Nelsen served as a liaison between the AGFS Marketing and Credit Risk departments and 3rd-party vendors SAS and Harte Hanks to facilitate model development. In 2003 Nelsen relocated back to the greater Des Moines area to work for Wells Fargo Financial as a risk management analyst supporting marketing strategies. During his time at WFF, Nelsen has been responsible for marketing, collection and credit risk modeling and analytics. Clint and his team are currently responsible for providing analytics and predictive modeling to support originations and account management activities for all WFF consumer lines of business.

Personal life

Nelsen married his wife, Mandi, in 2002. They have 3 children; Elle (6), Lane (4) and Tyde (4 months); a dachshund named Chip and a gerbil named Gere.