About the IAPP

Yacov Salomon is a recognized authority in the fields of machine learning and AI, and a seasoned technology executive who has built industry-leading innovative technology and teams at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals. He is Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Ketch, a data privacy software company. Prior to Ketch, Yacov was VP of Engineering at Salesforce Marketing Cloud leading the AI/ML and analytics engineering group, and VP of Data Science at Krux (acquired by Salesforce). Before that, Yacov was Head of Data-Science at Big-Commerce (NASDAQ: BIGC) and Head of Data-Science at Brandscreen. Yacov lectures on Machine learning and AI at UC Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.