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10 AI training data company leaders
These ten current and former leaders at AI training data and human data companies have held director-level and executive roles in operations, quality, talent, growth, product and strategy. A reader can learn how training data company leaders approach their work from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Anoush Gostanian
LinkedInExperience: Director, AI Training Data Quality Assurance | Partner | Head of Quality · Invisible Technologies
Former Director, AI Training Data Quality Assurance and Head of Quality at Invisible Technologies (2024-2026), and in the same role at Welo Data (2023-2024) after serving there as Senior Program Manager, AI Training Data Quality Assurance (2022-2023). Head of Data Operations at Miraxis AI since 2026.
Dave Bowen
LinkedInExperience: Director of Operations · Scale AI
Director of Operations at Scale AI since 2026, after serving as Director, Planning (2025-2026) and Head of Customer Operations Planning (2024-2025). The profile says he leads the planning team within Scale AI's generative AI business, overseeing opportunity scoping, demand forecasting, project staffing and operations performance tracking.
Jason Ma
LinkedInExperience: Director - Gen AI · Scale AI
Former Director - Gen AI at Scale AI (2023-2025), where the profile says he hired and built the generative AI growth product and operations function of more than 40 strategy, product and delivery staff. He earlier worked at Scale AI from 2019 to 2022 and later held product roles at Dover and MaintainX.
Jesse Perez
LinkedInExperience: Strategic Projects, Director · Scale AI
Director, Strategic Projects at Scale AI since 2023. Former Operations, Founding Member at Surge AI (2021-2022), Technical Product Operations Senior Manager (2020-2021) and Manager (2018-2020) at Cruise, and Product Operations Manager at Facebook (2018). The profile describes Scale AI as delivering training data for AI applications.
Kamron Palizban
LinkedInExperience: Head of Strategy, AI Training · Invisible Technologies
Co-Founder of Invisible Technologies, where he was Head of Operations (2015-2023) and Head of Strategy, AI Training (2023-2024). The profile describes Invisible as working on the training of artificial intelligence. Co-Founder and CEO of Ascendancy since 2024.
Laura Kier
LinkedInExperience: VP of Growth & Operations · Centaur.ai
VP of Growth & Operations at Centaur.ai since 2022, after serving there as Head of Product, Labeling Solutions (2021-2022) and Product Manager, Labeling Solutions (2020-2021). The profile describes leading operations at a healthcare AI company and advising model developers on high quality datasets and evaluation.
Mit Vipul Dhami
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data, Science and Products · Scale AI
Director of Data, Science and Products at Scale AI since 2020, where the profile describes scaling science and agentic data products. Former Data Science roles at Overstock (2018-2020), Kotak Mahindra Bank (2017) and Siemens (2015-2016). The profile describes Scale AI as delivering high quality training data for AI applications.
Olga Megorskaya
LinkedInExperience: CEO of Toloka.ai · Toloka
CEO of Toloka since 2020; the profile describes Toloka as a data partner for AI development from training to evaluation, and its headline describes empowering businesses with high quality data for AI products. Former Head of Crowdsourcing and Platforms at Yandex (2015-2020) and Head of Search Assessors Service there (2011-2015).
Stephani J. Brito
LinkedInExperience: Head of Contractor Operations - GenAI and Robotics · Scale AI
Head of Contractor Operations for GenAI and Robotics at Scale AI since 2026. Earlier Scale AI roles include Gen AI Operations Lead (2024-2026), where the profile describes leading a workforce of more than 1,000 full-time contractors across 56 countries, and Manager, Workforces Ops (2023-2024).
Susanna Keyan
LinkedInExperience: Director of AI Talent Operations · SuperAnnotate
Director of AI Talent Operations at SuperAnnotate since 2024; the profile describes SuperAnnotate as building annotation and evaluation tools. She has worked there since 2019, also holding roles as Director of Talent and Administration (2022-2024), People and Culture Manager (2020-2022) and Operations Manager (2019-2020).
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Match the function to your question, since operations, quality assurance, contributor workforce management and strategy each cover a different part of running a training data business. Consider which company and which years are closest to your question, and whether a current or former leader suits it.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do training data companies plan staffing for projects whose demand changes quickly?
- 02How do you measure and maintain quality across a large contributor workforce?
- 03What changed in running a human data business as projects shifted toward generative AI?
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