Awards & Recognition
★Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (highest civilian honor)
★First U.S. Chief Data Scientist appointment by President Obama
★Defense Science Board member
★Board of Visitors for National Defense University
★Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center
Notable Facts
→Co-coined the term 'data scientist' while at LinkedIn
→First U.S. Chief Data Scientist (2015-2017) under President Obama
→General Partner at GreatPoint Ventures focusing on healthcare, enterprise tech, and national security
→Board member and former CTO of Devoted Health
→Notable early-stage investments include Figma, Confluent, RelateIQ
→Featured in two Michael Lewis books (The Fifth Risk and Premonition)
→Led establishment of nearly 40 Chief Data Officer roles across federal government
→Co-founded Crisis Text Line and Iraqi Virtual Science Library
→Author of multiple books including Building Data Science Teams and Data Jujitsu
→Former senior roles at LinkedIn, PayPal, Skype, eBay
→PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Maryland