George Bezerra

George Bezerra is the SVP, Head of Data at The Knot Worldwide. George has over two decades of experience in data and analytics, and has held leadership positions at Frontdoor, Inc and Metromile.

At Frontdoor, George led a team of 45+ data experts across data science, data engineering, business intelligence, ML engineering, and data product management. George was responsible for the data strategy and roadmap for Frontdoor. Under their leadership, the data science team developed models for several business problems, including customer lifetime value, conversion funnel optimization, recommender systems, computer vision, cost prediction, and ad targeting. In addition, George oversaw the development of a machine learning platform that scales and automates key phases of the ML model lifecycle, such as feature engineering, model training, inference, deployment, and monitoring.

George also played a key role in building a cloud-first data platform on AWS and Snowflake, and with modern data stack tools, such as DBT, Airflow, Fivetran, Terraform, and Looker. By collaborating across all business functions, they helped build an enterprise data warehouse that standardizes the core data transformations and metrics for the organization, making analytics at Frontdoor faster, cheaper, and simpler than ever before.

Prior to Frontdoor, George was the VP of Data Science & Machine Learning at Metromile. In this role, they oversaw a team of data scientists and engineers who were responsible for developing predictive models to estimate insurance risk and premiums. George also led the development of a real-time fraud detection system

George Bezerra has a PhD in Computer Science from The University of New Mexico, an MSc in Computer Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

George Bezerra reports to Timothy Chi, CEO. They work with Matt Rook - EVP, Engineering, Swapna Manne - SVP, Corporate Strategy, and Jenny Lewis - Chief Marketing Officer.