George Bezerra is the Senior Vice President, Head of Data at The Knot Worldwide. In this role, George is responsible for leading the global Data team across Analytics, Data Engineering and Data Science. George has been in the data space for over 10 years and was previously VP of Data at Frontdoor, where he led the data engineering, machine learning, and data science teams. His past experience includes 5 years working at TripAdvisor where he built the data science and analytics functions and led the development of personalization algorithms in addition to computer vision and natural language processing models.
George holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil, as well as a PhD in Computer Science from The University of New Mexico and postdoc at MIT. George resides in Denver with his wife and Havanese dog Panko.