E455 Gaurav Rao, EVP & GM of Machine Learning and AI at AtScale

Today's guest is Gaurav Rao, EVP & GM of Machine Learning and AI at AtScale in Boston, MA. Founded in 2013, AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making.

AtScale has brought together a leadership team comprised of accomplished executives from across the global technology ecosystem. Drawing experience from companies including Vertica, Yahoo, Oracle, Dell, Citrix, AWS and IBM, AtScale is squarely focused on transforming the way organizations think about their data and analytics. Gaurav brings his expertise across Product, Engineering, Sales and Corporate Strategy to AtScale, specializing in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI in support of business needs across public, private and hybrid enterprise environments.

In the episode, Gaurav will discuss:

The interesting work he does with AtScale,

An insight into their ML & AI team,

The impact they bring to customers,

Plans for growing the team,

Educating and promoting trust in AI and

What excites him for the future at AtScale