Mark Johnson, Director of Data Science and Analytics, Amazon

Mark Johnson’s path to power

Johnson leads a data science and analytics team of more than a dozen people as director of data science and analytics at Amazon. Johnson and his team help optimize and develop advanced machine learning capabilities. Prior to joining Amazon, Johnson worked as a data scientist at Facebook and PlaceIQ. He is experienced in working with big data technologies, data visualization tools, programming languages and machine learning algorithms. Johnson’s experience includes researching and developing new machine learning models and algorithms that directly improve Amazon’s core focus, as well as optimizing models to increase accuracy, reduce costs and create efficiencies.