Eric Colson is the Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix, an ecommerce start-up focused on personalization. Eric also holds advisor positions at several other companies: Earnest Inc (consumer lending), Data Elite (Big Data incubator), Mortar Data (Big Data Platform).
Previously, Eric was VP of Data Science & Engineering at Netflix and has held analytics positions at Yahoo!, Blue Martini, Proxicom and Information Resources, Inc.. He holds a B.A. in Economics from San Francisco State University, an M.S. in Information Systems from Golden Gate University, and an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford.