Featurespace team shortlisted in 6 categories ahead of Women in IT Excellence Awards 2018

Four members of the Featurespace team have been shortlisted for the Hero of the Year award, while CEO Martina King has received nominations for both Role Model of the Year and Woman of the Year.

The Women in IT Excellence Awards, led by Computing News, highlights the entrepreneurs, innovators, leaders and pioneers building the infrastructure of the future. Winners will be announced in November at a ceremony hosted by tech journalist Holly Brockwell, who is best known for founding the female-written, female-focused tech site Gadgette.

Representing Featurespace in the Hero of the Year Category are: 

  • Lucy Griffin, Senior Data Scientist, Featurespace
  • Megan Leoni, Graduate Data Scientist, Featurespace
  • Milena Jonkisz, Customer Support Engineer, Featurespace
  • Reka Burmeister, Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Quality Assurance, Featurespace

In addition, CEO, Martina King, has been shortlisted for both Role Model of the Year and Woman of the Year awards. 

Commenting on the shortlist, Martina King, Featurespace CEO said, 'We're thrilled to have this recognition of the highly skilled team we have built at Featurespace. I am proud to have so many of the remarkable women on our team celebrated through this award, all of whom are experts who go above and beyond to ensure our customers recieve the best possible product and service.'

Want to know more? Lucy was recently interviewed for our Life at Featurespace blog - see what a career in Data Science at Featurespace looks like and read her advice for others considering this career path here.

Featurespace™ is the world-leader in Adaptive Behavioural Analytics and creator of the ARIC™ platform, a machine learning software system developed out of the University of Cambridge. 

Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, and Atlanta, US with additional offices in London, UK, and New York, US. Featurespace has deployed ARIC to organisations that have services or products deployed in over 180 countries.