Leadership

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.

Kevin Goldsmith has been a developer, software architect, engineering manager, and senior technology executive for over 28 years.

He was most recently the Chief Technology Officer at Onfido in London, a machine learning and computer vision company helping users own their identities on the internet. Previously, he was the Vice-President of Engineering at AstrumU, a startup whose purpose is to help students find meaningful careers. Kevin was the Chief Technology Officer at the legal marketplace Avvo from 2016 through their acquisition in 2018. For three years, he was the Vice President of Engineering, Consumer at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden, leading the development of the multi-platform product and streaming services. Kevin spent nine years at Adobe Systems as a Director of Engineering, creating and growing the Adobe Revel product group and Adobe Image Foundation groups. Kevin was a developer and development lead at Microsoft in the Windows and Research teams.

Jessica has over a decade of HR experience focusing on all parts of the Human Resources umbrella. Prior to joining Anaconda, Jessica led the HR function for ClearDATA, a Healthcare cloud computing company, where she built the HR framework from 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 in safety. She led a team responsible for core HR 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.

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, and data science experience from his time leading sales at KNIME.

Al has spent the last 20 years learning everything about building sales & cs teams and empowering them to be successful. For the past 10 years, Al worked at Spiceworks where he helped them build a sales team across US, Europe & Australia.

Barry is a digital board member, CEO advisor and AI leader. He is the founder and CEO of AIMatters, Inc., an AI start up; a strategic advisor and board partner at BuildGroup, a growth equity firm that invests in SaaS plus marketplace companies, and an advisor to chairmen and CEOs on their AI powered platform business model transformations. He also served as a senior fellow and Board Member of the SEI Center at The Wharton School responsible for platform and network business model research. Past and present clients of Barry’s include CEO’s at Neiman Marcus, Barrick Gold, iRobot, Salesforce.org, Deloitte, GE Healthcare, Sun Life, ESPN and ATT.

Barry has co-authored 1,500 articles for the WSJ, NYT, HBR, MIT, and Forbes; six books, including his most recent, The Network Imperative, published by HBR, and 20+ e-books. In addition, Barry has delivered more than 500+ keynote speeches to 50,000+ people globally on digital business models. He has also appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News Network, NPR, and Facebook Live. Finally, he co-created the first AI program for leaders in EdX.

Barry began his career with McKinsey & Company, was a partner and co-leader of Global Research and Innovation at Arthur Andersen, and co-led John Hancock’s $2B Real Estate Equity arm. Barry is a graduate of Tufts University (BA, Magna Cum Laude) and Columbia University (MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma). He is married (37+ years) and has two grown sons and a daughter-in-law, all of whom he adores. He resides in Sherborn, Massachusetts and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Peter Wang has been developing commercial scientific computing and visualization software for over 15 years. He has extensive experience 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. Peter’s interests in the fundamentals of vector computing and interactive visualization led him to co-found Anaconda (formerly Continuum Analytics). Peter leads the open source and community innovation group. As a creator of the PyData community and conferences, he devotes time and energy to growing the Python data science community and advocating and teaching Python at conferences around the world. Peter holds a BA in Physics from Cornell University.

Travis is a co-founder of Anaconda, Inc. and holds a PhD from the Mayo Clinic and BS and MS degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from Brigham Young University. Since 1997, he has worked extensively with Python for numerical and scientific programming, most notably as the primary developer of the NumPy package, and as a founding contributor of the SciPy package. He is also the author of the definitive Guide to NumPy.

Travis is a board member of Anaconda and advises on furthering the company's open source projects. He also has served as a director of the Python Software Foundation and as a director of NumFOCUS.

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 more than 20 years in the technology industry, Stephen now serves as the SVP of Product at Anaconda. Stephen and the team are focused on shepherding the open-source community shaping the future of AI, machine learning, and data science while building solutions to allow organizations to collaborate, govern and deploy their Python and R data science in enterprise data centers and cloud.

Prior to joining Anaconda, Stephen Nolan held several leadership roles at Rackspace for over 12 years. Most recently he served as General Manager of Rackspace Data Services, a portfolio of database and data analytics services that enabled customers to scale fast while focusing on their core business rather than the operations of their data layer.As General Manager, he led ObjectRocket, A Rackspace Company, providing an enterprise-grade Database as a Service platform delivering the best in class open-source database technologies. Under his leadership tenure at ObjectRocket, the company experienced significant growth and scale while expanding its service offerings and adding the industry's most widely-used public cloud options to its platform.

Prior to his leadership in Rackspace Data Services and ObjectRocket, Nolan served as Director of Product and Operations at Rackspace in San Francisco and San Antonio. Before joining Rackspace Stephen focused on enabling and delivering Enterprise Storage services on the EMC product line at Dell Inc.

With over 20 years in the technology industry leading marketing and go-to-market teams, Shahz will serve as the SVP of Marketing & Strategy at Anaconda. Shahz and the marketing team will focus on engaging our 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 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 in Finance & Marketing from Iowa State University and the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The NED University in Karachi, Pakistan. An avid skier, he enjoys challenging difficult problems to drive and sustain business growth.