Meet our team
"This is the best startup team I've ever worked with, and I'm having a blast!"
Brett Hurt
CEO & Co-Founder, data.world
Brett Hurt
CEO & Co-Founder
Matt Laessig
COO & Co-Founder
Jon Loyens
CPO & Co-Founder
Bryon Jacob
CTO & Co-Founder
Ariane Chan
General Counsel
Patrick McGarry
Head of Data Literacy
Ryan Cush
Chief Revenue Officer
Shad Reynolds
Principal Product Engineer
Brandon Gadoci
Manager of Business Operations
Mark DiMarco
Senior Product Engineer
Amy Niemann
Head of Customer Success
Joe Boutros
Director of Product Engineering
Sharon Brener
Director of User Experience
Rebecca Clay
Head of Technical Services & Support
Ian Greenleigh
Director of Marketing
Tyler Durman
Growth Marketing Specialist
Jenny Ryan
Product Marketing
Lydia Guarino
Product Engineer
James Gray
Business Development Associate
Shawn Smith
Distinguished Engineer
Dave Griffith
Principal Engineer
Caroline Horn
Software Engineer
Dashiel Lopez Mendez
User Operations Associate
Lillian Situ
Software Engineer
Adam McElwee
Senior Engineer
Steve Verleye
Director of Engineering Operations
Jonathan Ortiz
Data Scientist
Noah Rippner
Data Scientist
Niraj Patel
Software Engineer
Triti Ahouraei
Office Manager
Investors
Advisors
data.world is very fortunate to work with so many accomplished professionals providing support in countless ways. These are not advisors in name only – we work closely and actively with them, seeking opinion, knowledge, and guidance on a daily basis. Our investors include some of the most important VC firms in Austin, Chicago, and Silicon Valley, such as Shasta Ventures, Capital Factory, Floodgate, Homebrew, LiveOak Venture Partners, mark vc, and Workday Ventures. We’ve also partnered with some of the most prominent angel investors and entrepreneurs in the country, such as Arthur Patterson, Clayton Christopher, John Mackey, Josh Kopelman, Kip Tindell, Matt O’Hayer, Pat Ryan, Philip Berber, and Scott Booth.
DJ Patil
Former US Chief Data Scientist, VP of Product at RelateIQ, Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners, Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist of LinkedIn
Adam Grant
Kirk Dando
Founder & CEO, Dando Advisors; Author, Predictive Leadership; business growth expert
Kelly Wright
Former EVP Sales, Tableau Software; Independent Board Director, Amperity; Advisor, Dropbox; Speaker
Gary Hoover
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, The University of Texas at Austin – Graduate School of Information
Doug Ulman
President & CEO, Pelotonia; former President & CEO, LIVESTRONG Foundation
Dr. David K. Arctur
Research Scientist & Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin – School of Engineering, School of Geosciences, and School of Information
Sarah Laessig
Civil Service Commissioner; Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner; Executive Advisor, London Business School
Robert Hansen
Chris Hyams
President, Indeed.com; former SVP of Product, Indeed.com; founder & former CEO, B-Side Entertainment
Peter Fader
Seth Greenberg
CMO & Board Director, Bask; former CMO, LifeLock; former VP of Advertising, Brand & Digital Strategy, Intuit
Melissa Frugé
Chief Legal Officer, Spredfast; former SVP, General Counsel & Secretary, HomeAway
Andy Sernovitz
CEO, GasPedal; CEO, SocialMedia.org; Author, Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
Jeff Mosler
Chief Services Officer, HomeAway; former GM, Global Outsourcing, UK & France Services, Amazon
Adam Zeplain
Board of Advisors at Soma Capital; Board of Directors at Broomly; Investor/Advisor
Dean Allemang
Founder & CEO, Working Ontologist; Ontologist, EDM Council; Author; former Chief Scientist, Capsicum Business Architects; Marshall Scholar, Swiss Technology Prize
Leigh Dodds
Data Infrastructure Programme Lead, Open Data Institute; former director; Bath: Hacked
Victor Trac
Founder & President, CloudKite.io; former Infrastructure Engineering Lead, Wikibuy; former CTO, ROIKOI
Erik Qualman
Author; Motivational Speaker; Founder, Socialnomics and Equalman; Advisory Board, Bazaarvoice
Steve Kramer
President & Chief Scientist, Paragon Science; former VP of Education at Trilogy
Devi Ramanan-Stauffer
VP – Global Product Collaborations, Ayasdi; Advisor, Onor; former Senior Director – Product/Customer Success, InVitae
Bob Campbell
Founder & CEO, Campbell Global Services; author; former Vice Chair, Deloitte & Touche; Executive Committee, The East West Institute, Aspen Group, Austin Council of Foreign Affairs
Paul Hurdlow
Senior VP and General Counsel, FloSports; former Co-Chair Emerging Companies, DLA Piper
Davin Potts
Founder, Appliomics; former Chief Data Scientist, Continuum Analytics; former Chief Science Officer, Stipple; former Co-Founder & Director of Life Sciences, KNIME.com
Garrett Eastham
Principal Scientist, Valkyrie Intelligence; Speaker & Industry Blogger; Data Exhaust; Board of Governors, College Merchandise, University of North Texas
Jono Bacon
Founder, Jono Bacon Consulting; Columnist, Forbes; Advisory Board, AlienVault; Columnist, opensource.com; former Director of Community, GitHub; Senior Director of Community, XPRIZE
Craig Fryar
Experienced Chief Data Officer; Enterprise road-mapping strategist (Tableau); Big data SME for GLG, Apex, Emissary.io and Atheneum
Dwight Foster
VP of Sales and Business Development, Nimble CRM; Principal, Cloud@Scale Partners; VP of Sales, Channel and Business Development, Insightly; investor/advisor
Pablos Holman
Inventor, Intellectual Ventures Lab; Faculty, Singularity University; Founder, Bombsheller; Advisor, Glowforge; ex Makerbot; ex Blue Origin
Ajay Gandhi
VP of Marketing, Shape Security; former VP of Product Marketing, Informatica; Former Sr. Director, Platform Product Marketing, saleforce.com and Oracle; former VP of Product Marketing, SAP
William Ballard
CTO, GLG; former EVP of Technology, leaf Group; former VP and CTO of Pluck; former Sr. Software Development Manager, Netsolve (now Cisco)
John Morkes
Founder, Neet UX & Strategy; experienced User Experience executive, trainer and researcher for startups and Fortune 500; former journalist for Wired
Sam Burns
IT Director & doctoral candidate, The University of Texas at Austin – School of Information
Theresa Kushner
Partner, Business Data Leadership; Former executive with Dell, VMware, Cisco Systems and IBM. Co-author, Managing Your Business Dataand B2B Data Driven Marketing.
Len Fishman
Vice President, Brown Brothers Harriman. Former Vice President of Business Development, data.world. Advisor: TIA Ventures, Imagine Easy Solutions (acquired), Slide Network (acquired).
Paul Miller
Managing Director, PMA Digital Solutions; former VP & President, Global eCommerce, Innovation, and Big Data, Grainger; former SVP, Direct Commerce, Sears Holdings Corporation; former VP, eCommerce, Williams-Sonoma; director, Heritage Parts, Flinn Scientific, and Rowmark
Joanne Lipman
Author; Former Editor in Chief, USA Today (Gannett); Former Principal Surrey Lane Media; Founding Editor in Chief, Conde Nast Portfolio, Former Deputy Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Flip Kromer
Founder of Vigilante; Entreprenuer in Residence at Capital Factory; Author of Big Data for Chimps (O’Reilly). Fomerly: Founder & CTO of Infochimps; Distinguished Engineer at CSC.