Vincent Yates is the Chief Data Scientist at Credera. He joined from his previous role as Chief Data Scientist for GE Digital where his team was focused on leveraging Industrial IoT to reduce costs; increase revenue and reduce risk for industrial customers.

Previously he was the director of Analytics Engineering for Zillow Group where his team was chartered with ensuring the trustworthiness of the all the data that powers Zillow from products like the Zestimate to marketing and sales. Vincent joined Zillow from Uber, where he was the Head of Data Science in Seattle leading half a dozen different products including: UberFamily, Scheduled Rides, Airports and Venues.

He has also led teams at Microsoft and Yammer. He got his start in data science after a Ph.D. program in Statistics at U.C. Berkeley.

He is passionate about education and evangelism and loves learning how new parts of a business work. In particular, he loves finding new places to get people excited about using data to change their jobs/teams/lives.