Mindy Chen is the Director of Decision Science at Hudl. She leads a team of data engineers, analysts, scientists, and consumer insights researchers who combine qualitative and quantitative data into actionable insights to guide strategy. Throughout her career, Mindy has held a variety of roles that shape her approach to data. She was an engineer at Intel Corporation, a product manager at Cisco Systems, and a manager of consumer insights at PepsiCo. Drawing from these experiences, she brings a unique combination of engineering, product, and consumer research perspectives to help companies activate on data.

On any given day, you will find Mindy working hand in hand with managers on her team to create and cascade out the data strategy for the organization, partnering with leaders to help them take action on the data, insights, and predictions that her team delivers, activating on opportunities to commercialize data, working to scale her team and Hudl’s data ecosystem, and shaping the team for optimal composition and skillset. You will also find her using data to time the succession planting of vegetables in her organic garden, choose the most disease, heat, and shade-resistant turfgrass cultivars, and track healthcare needs for her 7 cats and 1 dog.

Mindy holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Stanford University.