About
Our Partners

Founder of PyMC Labs
Biography:
Author of PyMC, the leading platform for statistical data science
PhD in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University
Former VP of Data Science and Head of Research at Quantopian Inc: Built a team of data scientists to build a hedge fund from a pool of 300k crowd researchers.
Recognized Public Speaker:Keynotes at the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) & TACC as well as talks at Strata Hadoop & AI, Newsweek AI conference, and various PyData conferences around the world

Chief Operating Officer
Biography:
PhD in Psychology from Vanderbilt University, BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University
Former Professor at Stony Brook University
More than 20 years of experience teaching and conducting research in data science, econometrics, statistics, and research methods
Leads the PyMC Community Team, co-organizer of the PyMCon Web Series, and regularly hosts PyMC office hours and sprints for new project contributors

Partner Gen AI Vertical
Biography:
15+ years of experience leading AI, infrastructure and analytics teams in hypergrowth tech companies.Successfully scaled data teams from 0 to 100 professionals.
Former Chief Data & AI Officer at Mistplay, where he developed reinforcement learning models for personalization, recommendation engines, scalable data platforms, and advanced experimentation platforms enabling 200+ annual A/B tests and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Former VP Data Science and HelloFresh where he oversaw $800M Marketing budget optimization and spearheaded Probabilistic AI Causal Modeling for pricing analytics and experimentation. Previous to that, management roles at Alibaba, Stitch Fix, Rocket Internet SE.
PhD in Computer Science at Heidelberg University, with expertise in AI and computer vision.

VP Marketing Analytics
Biography:
Masters in Econometrics, University of Bristol (2014 - 2015)
10 years industry and agency experience, developing a strong domain expertise in marketing. Successfully managed and coordinated high-value global clients in complex market environments, handling billion-dollar marketing budgets. Including the in-housing of holistic marketing measurement platforms driving million-dollar marketing scenarios.
Core PyMC-Marketing Developer: UI, time-varying parameterization & budget optimization

VP Marketing Analytics
Biography:
BSc in Economics, University of Sheffield
15 years marketing analytics experience. Former Senior Partner at Gain Theory, leading MMM consultancy, where he led the internal innovation team and the development of the internal data science platform.
Led and contributed to marketing effectiveness programs for major brands in the CPG, Retail, Entertainment, Government and D2C verticals.