Re-Engineering Drug Discovery Through ML and Digital Biology

Jaclyn spent the majority of her career at Google partnering with enterprise companies and incubating new products. She was a founding member of the growth team at CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth equity firm, where she advised growth-stage tech companies like Airbnb and Stripe on scaling their technical infrastructure, data security, and leveraging machine learning for growth. In 2019, Jackie and Noah Gale founded Tribe AI to make AI more accessible to companies of all sizes and industries, while also building a new type of career path for top technical talent that emphasizes specialization and freedom. (Read more about it here.) Now, Tribe AI is a highly selective community of 150 machine learning engineers, researchers, and data scientists from industry leaders like Google, Tesla, and Netflix, helping companies solve their toughest business problems using ML.

Since 2020 Ben has served as chief technology officer at Recursion, a clinical-stage biotechnology company using machine learning and technological innovations to decode biology and industrialize drug discovery at scale.

Ben has over 15 years building automated ML systems and solutions in ad tech, customer service, and healthcare for companies like Savvysherpa and Red Brain Labs. Prior to becoming CTO, Ben led the Recursion engineering team and worked as a lead research data scientist.