Hilary Mason (entrepreneur) explained

Hilary Mason
Birth Place:New York City
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Grinnell College
Brown University
Awards:Fortune 40 Under 40
Website:hilarymason.com

Hilary Mason is an American entrepreneur and data scientist. She is the co-founder of the startup Fast Forward Labs.[1] [2]

Early life and education

Mason was born in New York City, and graduated from Grinnell College with a B.A. in computer science in 2000, and attended Brown University.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Career

In 2010, she co-founded hackNY, a non-profit that helps integrate engineering students into the startup community in New York City. After a few years working as Chief Scientist at bitly, she quit the company in 2014 and co-founded Fast Forward Labs with Micha Gorelick, another former bitly data scientist.[7] She continues working as a data scientist at Accel.[8] [9] On September 7, 2017, Cloudera announced that it had acquired Fast Forward Labs, and that Mason would become Cloudera's Vice President of Research.[10]

She has been interviewed by TechRepublic,[11] Forbes,[12] Wall Street Journal, ProgrammableWeb[13] and others.[14] [15] [16] She has further featured in both Glamour (magazine)[17] and Scientific American[18] [19]

She has also been a member of Mayor Bloomberg's Technology and Innovation Advisory Council.[20] In addition, Mason is a prominent member of NYCResistor, a hacker collective located in Brooklyn.[21]

Fast Forward Labs

Fast Forward Labs specializes in machine learning intelligence research.[22] Mason is the CEO of the Fast Forward Labs until the acquisition, on September 7, 2017 by Cloudera, a US open-source software company that offers support, training and software to business clients.[23] Cloudera extended this offer due to FFL's experience and expertise in applying machine learning to practical business problems and their commitment to continual academic and industrial research surveys on new techniques. Mason explained that the merger of FFL with Cloudera would enable further and accelerated research opportunities on a larger platform.[24]

Awards

Mason received the TechFellows Engineering Leadership award in 2012 worth $100,000.[25] She was also on the Fortune 40 under 40 Ones to Watch list in 2011,[26] as well as Crain's New York 40 under Forty list.[3]

She was named within the Top 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company.[27]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ex-Bitly chief scientist Hilary Mason launches Fast Forward Labs as an all-in-one emerging tech consultant . Novet . Jordan . 21 July 2014 . . 2 January 2016.
  2. Web site: Former Bit.ly data scientist Hilary Mason starts own research consulting lab . Vanian . Jonathan . GigaOm . 21 July 2014 . 1 January 2016.
  3. Web site: Kavanaugh . Shane Dixon . 12 October 2012 . Hilary Mason - 2012 - 40 Under Forty - Crain's New York Business . 3 March 2021 . Crain's New York blog.
  4. Web site: Accel . accel.com . 2 January 2016 . dead . 1 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160101215859/http://www.accel.com/team/venture-development/bay-area/hilary-mason .
  5. Web site: Hilary Mason '00 featured in "Why a Liberal Education Creates Great Entrepreneurs" . . 2 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101937/http://www.grinnell.edu/news/external/hilary-mason-00-featured-why-liberal-education-creates-great-entrepreneurs . 4 March 2016.
  6. Web site: Scholars' Convocation: Hilary Mason '00 . 12 February 2016 . . 3 March 2021.
  7. Web site: 2014-07-21 . Ex-Bitly chief scientist Hilary Mason launches Fast Forward Labs as an all-in-one emerging tech consultant . 2023-02-23 . VentureBeat . en-US.
  8. Web site: Accel: Hilary Mason. . Accel . 14 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190602182511/https://www.accel.com/team/hilary-mason . 2 June 2019 . dead.
  9. Web site: Hilary Mason About. . 14 November 2017 . Hilary Mason. 31 December 2016 .
  10. Web site: Olson . Mike . 7 September 2017 . Fast Forward! . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190611000636/https://vision.cloudera.com/fast-forward/ . 11 June 2019 . 9 September 2017 . Cloudera VISION Blog.
  11. Web site: Hilary Mason: Fast Forward Labs CEO. One-time aspiring taxi driver. Your nerd best friend. . Carson . Erin . TechRepublic . 15 January 2016 . 16 January 2016.
  12. Web site: bitly's Hilary Mason on "What is a Data Scientist?" . Woods . Dan . Forbes . 1 January 2016.
  13. Web site: Interview Hilary Mason Chief Scientist bitly . Ohri . Ajay . 28 January 2013 . ProgrammableWeb . 1 January 2016.
  14. Web site: Hilary Mason Turns Big Data Into Plain English Rising Stars OZY . Cadei . Emily . 20 August 2014 . OZY . ozy . 1 January 2016.
  15. Web site: Data Science and Why Dogs Rule the Internet . Mashable . 14 May 2013 . Drell . Lauren . 1 January 2016.
  16. Web site: Data Stories: Interview with Hilary Mason of Bit.ly . Gnip Blog . Reddy . Elaine Ellis . 23 July 2012 . 1 January 2016 . en-US . https://web.archive.org/web/20140804150424/https://blog.gnip.com/hilary-mason-interview/ . 4 August 2014 . dead.
  17. Web site: Women in Tech: We Really Do Need More! . Glamour . Swisher . Kara . Kara Swisher . 6 October 2011 . 4 November 2017.
  18. Web site: Physics or Fashion? What Science Lovers Link to Most. . Fischetti . Mark . 16 November 2011 . Scientific American . 4 November 2017.
  19. Web site: Getting to Know You: Bit.ly Chief Scientist Finds Rich Data in Shortened Links. . Easter . Michael . 1 April 2011 . Scientific American . 4 November 2017.
  20. Web site: Ruth . João-Pierre . Mayor Bloomberg Announces New Advisory Council on Technology at NY Tech Meetup. . 14 November 2017 . Xconomy.
  21. Web site: NYCResistor About. . 14 November 2017 . NYCResistor.
  22. Web site: Fast Forward Labs: What we do . Fast Forward Labs . 20 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033826/https://fastforwardlabs.com/#what-we-do . 1 December 2017 . dead .
  23. Web site: Cloudera: About . Cloudera . 20 November 2017.
  24. Web site: Fast Forward Blog: To the Future... . Mason . Hilary . 7 September 2017 . Fast Forward Labs . 20 November 2017.
  25. Web site: The Winners Of This Year's $100,000 TechFellow Awards Are… . Constine . Josh . 22 February 2012 . TechCrunch . 1 January 2016.
  26. Web site: 40 Under 40: Ones to watch - Hilary Mason (13) . . 2016-01-01.
  27. Web site: 99-100. Hilary Mason, Leslie Bradshaw . Chu . Jeff . 13 May 2013 . Fast Company . 1 January 2016 . en-US.

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