The leading AI data development platform adds
its first CDO, CFO, CMO and CPO and announces SnorkelCon to be held
in New York City
SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Snorkel AI is
building upon its latest phase of rapid growth with four major
c-suite appointments. Collectively, these executives are AI
pioneers and experts in global scale, with previous exits ranging
from acquisitions by Google and Microsoft to IPO. Now, they'll
guide Snorkel as it cements itself as a foundational piece of the
AI infrastructure stack.
The new executives include:
- Ronaldo Ama, Chief
Development Officer, is a world-class engineering leader who,
as Vice President of Engineering at Looker, helped lead the product
and the company through its acquisition by Google. He served as GM
of Looker at Google for nearly four years, and currently serves as
an advisor and board member to various companies including
Conclude, Hex and Yalo. His experience also includes leadership
roles at Domino Data, Ayasdi and VMware.
- Cate Lochead, Chief Marketing Officer, is a go-to-market
expert with a track record for maturing growth companies through
global scale. She previously built the marketing team at JumpCloud
and supported funding rounds of more than $300 million in capital across Series E and F.
Prior to JumpCloud, Cate served as CMO of DataStax and SVP of
Marketing at Carbon Black, where she led product and corporate
marketing through the IPO. She is a member of the Forbes Business
Development Council and b2b SaaS network Pavilion (fka Revenue
Collective).
- Bobby Shoker, Chief Financial
Officer, brings 25+ years of experience as a finance and
operations leader to the Snorkel team. He previously served as the
CFO at Fungible, leading the company through its
acquisition by Microsoft. Prior to Fungible, he spent
six-plus years as Vice President of Finance and Accounting at
Netskope. Bobby has a track record of helping companies raise
capital, grow, scale efficiently and create significant shareholder
value. As a finance leader, he has helped companies accelerate
growth and profitability, and successfully completed three
strategic sales and one IPO.
- Ajay Singh, Chief Product
Officer, is a pioneering entrepreneur in the machine learning
(ML) and large language model (LLM) space, having co-founded
Zebrium and serving as its CEO for four-plus years through its
acquisition by ScienceLogic. In that span, Zebrium built the most
accurate unsupervised ML engine to identify root causes of software
problems, and pioneered the use of Generative AI long before it
became mainstream. Prior to Zebrium, Ajay led Product at Nimble
Storage and for multiple product lines at NetApp.
The four new executives join as Snorkel's growth accelerates
driven by enterprises' need to develop the data that feeds
Generative AI applications. Enterprises face challenges in
harnessing the full potential of their data, with roughly 70 - 80%
of AI data development work done manually. Snorkel provides a
platform for programmatic data development that has saved
enterprises billions of dollars and years of manpower, while
growing topline revenue. Snorkel's customer list has expanded with
globally recognized names from a variety of industry leaders
including BNY Mellon, Comcast, Flipkart, Linktree, QBE Insurance,
Wayfair and Wells Fargo.
"The GenAI explosion has led every enterprise on the planet to
look into training large language models (LLMs). These companies
are quickly realizing that there's a major difference between
flashy chatbot and actual, production-quality AI. They need tools
and guidance, and we're here to provide exactly that," said
Alex Ratner, CEO and co-founder of
Snorkel AI. "We're powering programmatic data development for the
biggest companies in the world--whether it's a hospital saving
lives, or a bank empowering people to build their passions--we can
speed up their innovations by 100x. That success is why we're
attracting incredible talent like Ajay, Bobby, Cate and
Ronaldo."
Introducing SnorkelCon
In response to the acceleration
of enterprise AI initiatives, Snorkel is introducing a new industry
event: SnorkelCon. The first conference will take place
October 16th - 17th, 2024 in
New York City. The event will
bring together AI experts, data scientists from the world's leading
institutions, and innovative adopters at the forefront of AI.
In April 2024, Snorkel released a
major product update focused on upleveling programmatic data
development for enterprises, with a focus on foundation model
integrations with direct access to Google Gemini models and
integration with Databricks for unified model governance; computer
vision capabilities; and enhanced document intelligence. It also
launched Snorkel Custom, a new services and platform that helps
enterprises use their data to adapt Large Language Models (LLMs)
and quickly deliver production-quality AI, at Google Cloud Next
'24.
For more information, please visit snorkel.ai.
Resources
- Improving RAG outcomes with your unique enterprise data
- How Wayfair is transforming customer experiences with
Snorkel
- Learn about data development for LLMs
- Learn more about Snorkel Custom
- Learn more about Snorkel Flow
- Contact Snorkel
About Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI has been pioneering
programmatic AI data development since 2015, when its founders
launched the Snorkel research project out of the Stanford AI Lab.
Working in partnership with teams from Apple, Google, and other
industry and government sponsors, the team quickly delivered
results that accelerated AI application development by 10-100x or
more. This transformative approach served as the design point for
Snorkel Flow, an enterprise AI data development platform. The team
has published more than 100 peer reviewed research papers and is
used in production by Fortune 500 companies including BNY Mellon,
Wayfair, Chubb, as well as across the federal government. Snorkel
AI operates out of San Francisco,
New York and London.
Media Contact: snorkel@haymaker.co
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