Head of AI innovation and chief product officer at Careerspan
Expertise: Data science, artificial intelligence, career development
Education: Northwestern University; University of Wisconsin
Ilse Funkhouser is the head of AI innovation and CPO at Careerspan. She is a data scientist who cut her teeth using behavioral psychology to build financial tools to help people save more money for retirement. Ilse cares about building products that help humanity, not just someone’s bottom line. She wrote the core architecture at her previous startup, ProdPerfect, which received $17M in funding, has a master's in data science from the University of Wisconsin and undergraduate degrees in math and economics from Northwestern University.