About Swayable

Measuring What Changes Minds
About Us


Swayable measures how effectively media content changes opinions. Our clients are dramatically increasing the impact of the stories they tell on the world’s most important issues. Clients include major brands, agencies, foundations and political campaigns around the world.

The service is delivered via a cloud-based technology platform built in California and New York. Swayable is incorporated as a public benefit corporation dedicated to effective truth telling.

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Our People

Meet the Team

James Slezak

Chief Executive Officer
New York Times / Purpose / McKinsey / Cornell Experimental Physics PhD

Valentina Baraldi

Head of Client & Research Success
droga5 / Goodby Silverstein & Partners / McKinsey / Darden School of Business MBA

Tyler Montague

VP of Client & Research Success
Ogilvy / Saatchi / Grey Advertising

Peter Markgraf

Client & Research Success
SurveyMonkey / Portland State University

Taylar Harrington

Client & Research Success
Fix It People / Adler U MPPA / Wittenberg U

Zoe Frishberg

Client & Research Success
Colgate University / McCann

Caroline Bauwens

Client & Research Success
maslansky + partners / Université Paris-Sorbonne / Whitman College

Vanessa Gershbein

Client & Research Success
Kantar / TapResearch / Northeastern University

Anshuk Gandhi

Chief Product Officer
LinkedIn / McKinsey / U. Michigan / IIT (Bombay)

Michael Baumer

VP of Data Science / Deep Learning Research
Unknot / Stanford PhD

Saad Ansari

LLM Applications / Experimental Science Research
CU Boulder Physics PhD

Shane Mullane

VP of Sales
Experian / Moat / Oracle Data Cloud / Trinity College (Dublin)

Scott Fedonchik

VP of Marketing
Condé Nast / WebMD / Rolling Stone / Business Wire / PhotoShelter / FIT

Will Brown

Chief Technology Officer
AlphaROC / Quantcast / Berkeley PhD

Jared Rhine

Artificial Intelligence & Scientific Computing
Indiegogo / GoodSearch / Xtranormal / Xmarks

Katarina Bongardt

Marketing
Zoom / UC Santa Barbara

Ian Zelaya

Marketing
LaunchSquad / Digiday / Adweek / BizBash

Josh Dean

Engineering
HP Inc. / Procore Technologies

Kwaku Ofori-Atta

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Goldman Sachs / U. Chicago

Daniel Fan

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Advanced Learning / SUNY Binghampton PhD (CS, ABD)

Halah Al-Shaikhly

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Zenput / Galvanize / University of Jordan

David Ash

Engineering
AT&T / FOX Entertainment

Melody Finch

Engineering
MITRE / College of William and Mary

Ashton Levier

Engineering
Pluralsight / Lendio / Drip / University of Arizona

Dena Brody

Strategic Partnerships
Omnicom / Suzy / Vidmob / George Washington University

Roberto Guerra

Enterprise Sales
eMarketer / Moat / Fordham U MBA

Tim Wackman

Enterprise Sales
MikMak / Ibotta / News America Marketing / University of Minnesota

Dan Sucher

Enterprise Sales
LinkedIn / YouGov / UCLA Anderson MBA

Benjamin Glatt

Enterprise Sales
The New York Times / Comscore / MikMak / Pennsylvania State University

Jeron Hernandez

Client Partner
Kantar Millward Brown / Civis Analytics / MetrixLab / DePaul University

Brandon Disch

Sales
Skai / COOP / SFSU

Bobby Charlton

Sales
Remesh / Coe College

Tyler Montague

VP of Client & Research Success
Ogilvy / Saatchi / Grey Advertising

Iri Hoxha

Product Design
HEVO / NYC College of Technology
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Joining Swayable means being on a team whose work changes the course of history.