Betaworks Studios Leadership

John Borthwick is a Board Member at Blade and CEO at Betaworks and is based in New York City, New York. He has worked as Member of the Board of Directors at Chartbeat, SVP Technology and Corp. Alliances at WarnerMedia, and CEO / Founder at Total NY. John works or has worked as Founder at instapaper, MEMBER at New York Public Radio Data & Society, and Employee at AOL Time Warner. He studied at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania between 1992 and 1994, The Wharton School between 1992 and 1994, and Wesleyan University between 1984 and 1987.

Gilad is the Head of Data Science at BuzzFeed where he leads a team that’s tasked with building state of the art analytics, insights, and data products to support entertainment, news, business and tech. Previously Gilad led Data Science at betaworks, and built data products and Microsoft. Gilad’s work has been covered across a wide range of academic journals and publications, most recently focused on propaganda and bias within algorithmic ranking systems.

John Borthwick is a Board Member at Blade and CEO at Betaworks and is based in New York City, New York. He has worked as Member of the Board of Directors at Chartbeat, SVP Technology and Corp. Alliances at WarnerMedia, and CEO / Founder at Total NY. John works or has worked as Founder at instapaper, MEMBER at New York Public Radio Data & Society, and Employee at AOL Time Warner. He studied at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania between 1992 and 1994, The Wharton School between 1992 and 1994, and Wesleyan University between 1984 and 1987.