Beyond Moneyball

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 for the Pytorch deep learning...

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 technology to drive decision making for the...

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 podcast, which he describes as "a...

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 making big investments in "disruptive sports...

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" in 2013. Since then, Ben...

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 consultant for the Performance &...

Varuna De Silva leads the Machine Intelligence Lab at Loughborough University, applying artificial intelligence to engineering problems. This work has included the integration of A.I. and sports data analytics to...

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 Analytics Group and minority...

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 experience as a consultant with numerous...

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 to four Boston Red Sox world...

Suds Gopaladesikan is the director of football intelligence for Italy's Atalanta BC. Mathieu Lacome is the head performance and analytics officer with the Parma Calcio football club in Italy, where he develops on-pitch...

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 which he personally used. He is the founder...

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, Everybody Lies, was a New York Times bestseller and an...

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 hedge fund Third Point, where he...

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 computing. He has served in both...