Beau Cronin

Beau Cronin has a decade of work experience in various roles. In 2011, they co-founded Prior Knowledge, Inc. Beau then joined Salesforce in 2012 as a Senior Strategic Analyst and Senior Product Manager. In 2014, they joined the Program Committee of the O'Reilly Strata Conference. In 2015, they joined the Program Committee of the Wrangle Conference. In 2016, they joined the Advisory Committee of the O'Reilly AI Conference and became the Head of Data at 21, Inc., where they designed and built the data and analytics pipeline. In 2017, they joined The Data Guild as a Partner and Beseeq as Chief Scientist. In 2019, they joined DataKind as Program Director. In 2020, they joined WeaveGrid as Chief of Staff to the CTO, Head of Engineering Operations, and Software Engineer.

Beau Cronin completed their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley between 1996 and 2000. Beau then went on to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which they completed in 2008.