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Peter Wang is the CEO and co-founder of Anaconda, Inc. Prior to founding Anaconda (formerly Continuum Analytics), Peter spent 15 years in software design and development across a broad range of areas, including 3D graphics, geophysics, large data simulation and visualization, financial risk modeling, and medical imaging.

As a creator of the PyData community and conferences, he devotes time and energy to growing the Python data science community and advocating for increasing data literacy around the world. Peter holds a BA in Physics from Cornell University.

With more than 25 years years of executive-level financial development experience for a wide range of businesses, Angela Pierce now provides financial stewardship and executive leadership at Anaconda. Angela is no stranger to crafting financial management plans for technology leaders. In her tenure as the CFO for AirStrip Technologies, a med-tech software company backed by Sequoia Capital, she supported the successful scale of the business and raised more than $100 million in equity and debt financing. Previously, as CFO of Trillion Partners, she spearheaded the effort to raise $60 million in debt and private equity for the business. As VP of Finance at Broadwing, Angela led the raising of more than $200 million and managed the company’s M&A activities and investor relations functions.

Angela also previously managed financial services and corporate banking as an executive with The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi and Deutsche Bank. She is a CPA and has a Bachelors in Finance and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.

Jessica has 15 years of operations experience with a focus on HR in her earlier career. Prior to joining Anaconda, Jessica led the HR and administrative functions for ClearDATA, a Healthcare cloud computing company, where she built the HR framework from the ground up while leading recruiting efforts in opening their Austin HQ office. Prior to ClearDATA, Jessica was the HR Director for JMJ Associates, a global company in the oil and gas industry specializing in professional services. She led a team responsible for core HR operational functions in EMEA, APAC, Europe, and the Americas. In her earlier career, she worked for both small and Fortune 50 companies in various HR roles. For the last five years, Jessica has led operations for Anaconda helping scale the business in the HR, recruiting, procurement, legal, customer service, and administration functions.  Jessica also serves as the executive leader for our learning subscription segment. 

Jessica graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Strategic Communication. She also attended The University of Texas and holds her Professional Human Resources Certification (PHR).

Al grew up in the Bronx, New York City and has deep experience in multi-sided marketplaces from his time leading the sales organization at Spiceworks, plus data science experience from his time leading sales at KNIME.

Al has spent the last 20 years learning everything about building sales and CS teams and empowering them to be successful. Al worked at Spiceworks for 10 years, during which he helped build a sales team across US, Europe, and Australia.

Michael is a computational mathematician specializing in optimization, signal processing, and simulation, and a contributor in classroom, research, and commercial settings. He assists clients in the development of advanced Python data science applications using Anaconda Distribution. As a recognized subject matter expert in convex optimization, Michael’s open source modeling tools for optimization have twice been recognized with awards from the International Society for Mathematical Programming.

Prior to joining Anaconda, Michael served as a consulting assistant professor in the Information Systems Laboratory, a research associate in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, and a staff scientist in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.

Michael received a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

With over 20 years in the technology industry leading marketing and go-to-market teams, Shahz serves as the SVP of Marketing & Strategy at Anaconda. Shahz is focused on engaging customers and the open-source community, sharing the value Anaconda provides as they innovate, collaborate, and deploy their Python and R data science projects in data centers and the cloud.

Shahz joined Anaconda after a four-year stint at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he led the global go-to-market with ISVs, data providers, and consulting partners for the AWS Marketplace business that saw exponential growth. Prior to AWS, Shahz was Vice President Marketing for the Hybrid Cloud unit at IBM, responsible for cloud transformation of the company’s application development technology stack. Before joining IBM, Shahz spent 15 years at Microsoft in leadership roles in finance, business development, and marketing. He oversaw several key initiatives to transition customers and partners to cloud during the early days of cloud services at the company.

Shahz has a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance & Marketing from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The NED University in Karachi, Pakistan. An avid skier, he enjoys challenging difficult problems to drive and sustain business growth.

Rob Futrick is VP of Platform Engineering at Anaconda, where he is responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of Anaconda’s cutting-edge data science platform technologies. With over 25 years of software engineering and product development experience, Rob has a proven track record of building and scaling complex software systems for some of the world’s leading companies.

Prior to joining Anaconda, Rob owned product for Microsoft Azure’s HPC + AI Software platform. He led teams responsible for building and delivering key services, including Azure Batch, Azure CycleCloud, and HPC Pack. Before that, Rob was co-founder and CTO of Cycle Computing, where he drove the company’s technology and product vision with particular focus on enabling highly scalable cloud and hybrid HPC solutions. Cycle was acquired by Microsoft in 2017.

Rob’s software engineering and cloud computing expertise continues to be instrumental in building and delivering industry-leading data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence solutions. His passion for innovation and continuous improvement bolsters Anaconda’s leadership role in the rapidly evolving enterprise Python space.

Outside of work, Rob enjoys spending time with his family and using large language models to help draft bios for corporate websites.

Chandler is VP, AI/ML & Enterprise Python Repositories at Anaconda. Chandler’s role includes developing and executing Anaconda’s technology and product strategy and managing and maintaining Anaconda’s roadmaps.

Prior to joining Anaconda, Chandler served in multiple leadership roles, both in product
management and engineering. He comes to Anaconda from Nutanix, where he ran
engineering for the Data Engineering, Availability, and Recovery business. Prior to
his time at Nutanix, Chandler led product and engineering for a tech-enabled services and SaaS startup focused on IoT and predictive analytics solutions for water utilities. He has also led product and technology groups for Codero Hosting, SunGard Availability Services,
Rackspace Managed Hosting, and Rackspace Cloud.

With over 20 years of experience in security, managed services, cloud computing,
SaaS, and data science, Chandler has nurtured several managed, cloud, and
SaaS-based businesses. In addition, he helped launch and grow Rackspace Cloud from its inception, and was a seminal leader in the eventual formation of OpenStack, the world’s first free and open-source cloud computing platform. Chandler is currently named as inventor on several patents for distributed block storage and distributed computing, hybrid and multi-networking cloud architectures, and cloud automation.

Chandler holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas, Austin, an MBA from
Rice University, and a MS in Data Science from SMU. He is a proud native Texan, and
lives in Austin with his wife and two strong-willed puppies. When Chandler is not in front of a computer, you can find him reading, hiking, swimming, camping, or biking. At times you may find him doing some of these things with his computer, too.