Alexandra Mannerings
Alexandra passionately believes in empowering the data scientist in each of us to improve how we make decisions every single day. She serves as the Director of Data Strategy at Data Prep U, a local start-up that provides education and custom training to fuel the analytic culture and success at companies of all types and sizes. At Data Prep U, Alexandra provides strategic planning, executive coaching, and the creation of data science learning content for all stops along the analytic journey. Over the previous six years she rose to the director of analytics for the Colorado Hospital Association, leading their data capabilities from an after-thought of the IT department into cutting-edge analytics and dynamic visualizations to help hospitals across Colorado improve patient care. She passionately believes in empowering the data scientist in each of us to improve how we make decisions every single day. Alexandra earned her PhD in Veterinary Science from the University of Cambridge in England, after graduating summa cum laude from Emory University in Atlanta with a BSc in Biology. When she isn’t wrangling data, she can probably be found at the local construction site with her toddler son, or saving her over-zealous infant daughter from discovering a little too much about gravity or electricity.