Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of the Verta Operational AI platform and Verta Model Catalog. She has worked in software and data roles since 2008, and previously held data science positions at Twitter, where she worked on deep learning for content recommendation as part of the feed-ranking team, and Google, where she worked on dynamic ad-targeting. Vartak holds a doctorate in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.