Senior Director, Data Analytics
Pyxis by Bain & Company
Peter Volberding is a Senior Director at Pyxis—Bain & Company’s alternative data and analytics arm—where he leads a data science team that powers hundreds of Bain commercial diligences and strategy consulting engagements each year. He specializes in advanced analytics that leverage more than 60+ large-scale consumer- and market-level datasets to decode how shoppers spend, how markets evolve, and how macroeconomic forces shape retail performance. Peter also oversees Pyxis’s direct-to-client analytics work with private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies, building custom data products that help leaders forecast demand, size opportunities, and make faster, higher-confidence decisions.
He has cross-vertical expertise conducting cutting-edge research for sectors spanning FMCG, QSR, luxury retail, airlines, and other consumer services. With a global team of data scientists, Peter has helped establish Bain’s leading position in the alternative data space to produce global market insights.
Before joining Pyxis, Peter worked in Bain’s general consulting practice, leading workstreams across M&A, growth strategy, and resource optimization.
He holds a B.A. in political economy from UC Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. He is the author of “Leveraging Financial Markets for Development” and “The Reinvention of Development Banking in the EU”, two leading academic references on the political economy of European development finance.
Tuesday Jan 13
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Press office, Level 1, 1C 03
Open to registered press and analysts only.
Consumers drove retail spending in 2025, even in the face of an uncertain tariff landscape and continuing concern around inflation. Through it all, they prioritized not only essential categories but also essential times of the year, from Valentine's Day all the way through the Winter Holidays. Beneath the surface, however, shoppers behaved very differently in terms of how they shifted their budget and managed economic pressures. Join the NRF research team and other leading experts as they discuss how all this played out in the most recent 2025 holiday shopping season and what it means for consumer behavior in 2026. Lunch is provided, first come, first served.
