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Barry is an operating partner with multiple exits. He has served on or advised 35 public and private company boards in the AI, SaaS and platform world.

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.

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).

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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.