Usama Fayyad

Usama Fayyad is a world-renowned expert in data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). He is the first executive to have held the title of Chief Data Officer, a role he held at Yahoo! after his second startup was acquired. In addition to his leadership roles at NASA/JPL and Microsoft, Fayyad has served as the Chairman, Co-Founder, and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of several startups.

From 2013 to 2016, he served as the Global Chief Data Officer & Group Managing Director at Barclays Bank in London. He is currently Chairman of Open Insights, a company he founded to address AI/Big Data solutions in 2008. He also serves as the Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.