Meet the incredible speakers of AthenaHacks 2017
Qian Liu started her career at WealthFront, a “robo-advisor” investment service firm that has more than $5 billion of assets under management. Qian was part of the founding team that launched Wealthfront, achieved product-market fit and grew assets under management from $0 to $100M. As the Director of Research at the company, she led and scaled research when assets under management grew from $100M to $3B. Qian now is Head of Data at GoFundMe, the biggest social fundraising platform for personal causes. The company raises funds for 1M+ campaigns from 20M+ donors with $1B+ donation per year on their platform. Qian runs GoFundMe’s data team responsible for data infrastructure, data product and analytics.
Audrey Wu is the cofounder of CONVRG, an enterprise SaaS product that enables retailers to engage, retarget and understand consumers with best-in-class chat experiences. She is a seasoned digital and emerging technology executive with experience at imperson, TechStars, JibJab Bros. Studios, iconmobile/WPP and Ketchum. She most recently headed the Los Angeles Studio of imperson, powering AI based chatbots such as Miss Piggy, Zootopia (Judy Hopps) and Doc Brown from Back to the Future. Audrey was recently named ChatbotConf Top 25 influencers of 2016.
Saqi Mehta leads the University Recruiting team at Square, where she visits schools around the country to bring the next generation of talent to the company. She is passionate about all things education: specifically women in tech. Saqi serves on the board of National Tech Diversity Magazine and writes for the Daily Muse and Blavity amongst contributions for other publications. Her proudest accomplishment to date is being Co-Founder of ReigningIt which brings awareness to women in STEM by profiling other womens’ stories. In any non-typing free time she is an art, interior design, and travel enthusiast.
Anna started her career as a corporate lawyer and spent two years at McKinsey as a strategy consultant. She served as VP Product atPetstore.com and two other early stage e-commerce companies, before transitioning to Los Angeles where she started a talent management firm and produced two feature films. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press. Anna was most recently GM and VP Partnerships at Fingerprint Digital, after selling Scribble Press to Fingerprint. During the past decade she has served as an advisor, strategy consultant and coach to many other entrepreneurs.
