Kirk McKeown spent 20 years in investment management data and research. He has worked as an analyst for investment firms Hunter Global, Tudor, and Point72. In 2021, he co-founded...

Ajay Krishna spent his early career working on systematic trading and big data equities research at Citadel, then served as head of data science and engineering at analytics firm M...

Erkut Sogut holds a doctorate in sports law, and has more than 20 years experience in the football (soccer) agency business.  Erkut is the founder of GROW, a player representation a...

Julie Souza is the global head of sports at Amazon Web Services where she drives strategic innovations in data and analytics, generative AI, and next-generation fan experi...

Michael Parekh is a former partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs.  Today, he serves those same roles at MKP Capital Management, focusing on AI and the 4th Tech wave.  M...

Tim Chen is a managing partner at Essence Venture Capital and part-time advisor to Bessemer Venture Partners.  He was a principal engineer at Grid.ai, which created a high-level interface ...

Ben Rosencranz spent several years as a strategy and analytics manager with E15 before signing on with the Chicago Blackhawks.  He is currently using advanced analytics and technolog...

Ken Jee is the head of data science for Scouts Consulting Group.  In addition to advising senior sports executives, Ken also hosts his own podcast, He also hosts Ken’s Nearest Neighbors podc...

Andrew Ehrenberg is the Head of Business Development at WagerWire.  He has ownership stakes in four sports organization and full partnership in Eberg Capital, where he's...

Ben Alamar became Director of Sports Analytics for ESPN a decade ago after the publication of his pioneering book, "Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers" ...

Hadi Sotudeh ⚽📈 is a doctoral student at ETH Zurich studying team tactical formations such as 4-4-2 and 3-5-2 using tracking data.He has previously worked as a football data science con...

Varuna De Silva leads the Machine Intelligence Lab at Loughborough University, applying artificial intelligence to engineering problems.  This work has included ...

Jessica Gelman has been an influential player in sports data ever since co-founding the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference all the way back in 2008. She is currently the CEO of Kraft ...

Keith Goldner is the Vice President of Data Science, Sports Modeling & Innovation at FanDuel, one of the largest sports betting platforms in the U.S. Keith has over a decade of experie...

Zack Scott is the founder and CEO of Four Rings Sports Solutions and adviser for Gemini Sports Analytics. Over the past 20 years, Zack’s data-driven leadership has directly contributed ...

Suds Gopaladesikan is the director of football intelligence for Italy's Atalanta BC. Mathieu Lacome i...

Matthew Lynley has been a journalist covering the tech industry for more than a decade. Four years of this career have been spent covering analytics and data science - tools whi...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a data scientist who put his Harvard PhD to work at Google, as well as consulting for numerous Fortune 500 companies.  His first book,...

Matt Ober is an extremely accomplished data leader turned venture capitalist. After leading Bloomberg's data operations for years, Matt served as chief data scientist for the $20 billion hedg...

Miles Adkins has spent a decade in the data science world, from hedge fund investment models to his current position as A.I. and Machine Learning specialist at Snowflake cloud compu...

Achille de Rauglaudre is a Sports investor and advisor.  Mathieu Lacome is author of the book "Football Intelligence" and the head performance and analytics officer with the Parma Calcio football club in Italy, where he develops on-pitch a...

Self-proclaimed data nerd David Spezia served as one of the original Field CTO's at Tableau, was the Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake during the largest IPO in software history, and is now a Distinguished Architect at Salesforce. His speci...

David Hardoon is an executive with more than two decades of international data science experience in multiple fields.  In the financial sector, he headed up data and AI strategy for the central bank of Singapore and UnionBank of the Philli...

Jordan Morrow is the founder and owner of Bodhi Data. Since 2019, he’s won 7 awards for his work on data, analytics, and AI. Bodhi Data is aiming to transfer skills in these fields to indi...

Andrew Madson is the Senior Director of Data Analytics at Arizona State University, while also serving as professor at three other universities.  Andrew is a solutions-focused analys...