Ian SwansonFounder

United States - Greater Seattle Area

Passionate about Digital Transformation and the field of Data Science (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning).

Most recently (July 2021), Swanson was the Amazon Web Services Worldwide Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Prior to Amazon, Vice President of Machine Learning at Oracle. In this role, Ian oversaw the strategy for Oracle’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning products.

Prior to Oracle, Swanson was CEO and Founder of DataScience.com which was acquired by Oracle May 2018. DataScience.com provided an industry leading enterprise data science platform that combined the tools, libraries, and languages data scientists loved with the infrastructure and workflows their organizations needed.

Earlier in his career, Swanson was an executive at American Express, Sprint, and CEO of Sometrics. Sometrics launched the industry's first global virtual currency platform in 2008 and was acquired by American Express in 2011. That platform -- for which he earned a patent -- managed more than 3.3 trillion units of virtual currency and served an online audience of 250 million in more than 180 countries.

A sought-after speaker and expert on digital transformation, data science, big data and performance-based analytics, Swanson actively advises Fortune 500 companies and invests in leading start-ups.