Biography

Yael Garten has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2023. She brings extensive experience in data science, machine learning, and converting data into actionable product and business strategy. She serves on the Levi Strauss & Co. board of directors since 2020 and is a member of its audit committee and nominating, governance and corporate citizenship committee. Dr. Garten was the AI/ML Director of Data Science and Engineering at Apple from 2017 to 2023. Prior to that, from 2011 to 2017 she worked in a number of positions at LinkedIn Corporation and most recently was Director of Data Science from 2015 until 2017. Before joining LinkedIn, Dr. Garten was a Research Scientist and Text Mining Lead at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the Stanford University School of Medicine, an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and a B.Sc. in Computational Biology from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.