While all reasonable points, his resume doesn't actually list any experience in industry. There is certainly a lot of data analysis skills that can be learned while at academic institutions.

I would argue, however, that a skill that is often not put on these lists of 'what you need to become a data scientist' is some time being at a real private sector company. In my experience, there are quite a few differences between writing academic papers and coming up with the terse, actionable information that is useful for a profit-driven company.