Cassie Kozyrkov is the founder of Decision Intelligence and served as Google's first Chief Decision Scientist, where she led the company's transformation into an AI-first organization. Over nearly a decade at Google, she personally trained more than 20,000 employees in data-driven decision-making and AI, and guided over 500 projects — building the Decision Intelligence function from scratch and running it for five years. Today she is the founder and CEO of Kozyr, advising senior leaders at organizations including NASA, Gucci, Spotify, Meta, and GSK on AI strategy and decision design.
A South African statistician who began studying economics and mathematical statistics at fifteen, Kozyrkov went on to the University of Chicago and to Duke University, where she focused on neuroeconomics. She sits on the Innovation Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been named a LinkedIn Top Voice for six consecutive years, and has reached millions of readers through her writing in the Harvard Business Review, WIRED, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. She has spoken on stages including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and SXSW, in over 40 countries across all seven continents.