Joe Forrester

Joe Forrester has over 20 years of professional experience in the technology and consulting industries. Joe began their career in 2001 as a Sr. Systems Analyst at Convergys Corporation. In 2007, they joined Acxiom as an Automotive Industry Leader - Consulting, where they were responsible for growing the automotive consulting practice. Joe then held various roles at Acxiom, including Managing Principal - Consulting, Technical Executive / Expert Consultant, and Technical Team Lead. In 2015, they were promoted to VP Solution Engineering at Wunderman. In 2016, they joined Wunderman Thompson Data as SVP Enterprise Architecture and Development, where they were responsible for defining and bringing to life the platform vision for how data is ingested, managed, identified, and distributed. In 2020, they moved to Choreograph as SVP Enterprise Architecture and Development. Currently, they are the SVP, Engineering and Product at Choozle.

Joe Forrester obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Management from Eastern Illinois University between 1996 and 2000. Joe has also obtained three certifications from Coursera: Serverless Data Analysis with Google BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow (May 2019), Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals (April 2019), and Leveraging Unstructured Data with Cloud Dataproc on Google Cloud Platform (April 2019).