Executive Leadership
We are a team of experts who are passionate about behavioral science, data, AI, technology, experiential learning, and improving human performance. By combining our experience and expertise in these areas for our customers, we work together to unlock and elevate human potential.
Meet Our Team
Noah Zandan
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Noah is the CEO and co-founder of Quantified, and a pioneer in applying behavioral science and AI to elevate human performance. Under Noah’s leadership, Quantified has become the global standard for developing people’s ability to thrive and excel professionally in a society where extraordinary skill development opens the doors to influence, connection, and success. Noah is a best-selling author of Insights into Influence and he has delivered main-stage TED and TED-Ed Talks with over 20 million views. Noah formerly specialized in quantitative analysis on Wall Street for Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and for Private Equity firm Brentwood Associates. He has an Economics degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Scott Smith
Chief Technology Officer
Scott leads technology at Quantified, including our software platform, infrastructure, security, and AI. He brings over 20 years of experience in building B2B SaaS products. Before Quantified, Scott was the CTO at Learn In and Degreed, VP of Engineering at Front Porch, and bootstrapped, created, and grew CoderBits, a successful startup focused on identifying and validating software developers’ skills, which was acquired by Appirio.
Russ Somers
VP OF MARKETING
Russ leads marketing for Quantified. He brings over 20 years of experience in marketing business-to-business SaaS products across a variety of industries. Before Quantified, Russ was the CMO of Lytho and VP of Marketing at TrustRadius, TrendKite (acquired by Cision), sonarDesign, and Invodo (acquired by CoCreativ). Russ' earlier roles were in product marketing, pricing, and analytics at Dun & Bradstreet, Dell, and Sabre Holdings. He has a BA in Sociology and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Hallie Porterfield
VP OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Hallie brings over 10 years of experience in services, account, and relationship management across industries. Prior to joining Quantified, Hallie was in the Private Bank of J.P. Morgan. She loves working with executives, enterprises, and organizations to develop leadership and behavioral skills for today's business environment and workforce expectations. Hallie has a BA in English from Princeton University, and an MBA from the University of Texas, McCombs School of Business.
John McGrew
VP OF REVENUE
John brings over a decade of experience leading customer success and customer support teams to Quantified and our customers. He is sharply focused on ensuring enterprise clients realize convincing value and ROI. John most recently launched customer success at Accruent and Club OS. He holds a B.S. from TCU and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Board of Directors
Erik Huddleston
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
Eric is an active Board Member and provides strategic insights into our GTM strategy at Quantified. He is currently the CEO of Aprimo, a marketing automation company. He was previously the CEO of media analytics firm TrendKite, leading the company through a successful acquisition by Cision PR where he then served as President. Erik is an expert in early-stage company growth, go-to-market strategies, product development, and operational leadership. Before leading TrendKite, he ran Product for Sprinklr after the merger with Social analytics firm Dachis Group. Erik studied at the University of Texas at Austin in the Plan II Honors Program.
Peter Zandan, Ph.D.
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN / CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST / CO-FOUNDER
Peter is our executive chair and leads our data science efforts at Quantified. He is an entrepreneur and expert in the field of data science and analytics. Peter is an investor, board member, and executive advisor to numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and serves as Global Vice Chairman of Hill & Knowlton Communications Firm. Peter founded and was CEO of Intelliquest, a publicly traded information firm. He also founded and was CEO of Zilliant, a SalesTech firm acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners. Peter has a Ph.D. in Evaluation Research and an MBA from the University of Texas, Austin.
Thomas Babcock
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
Thomas is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of investment firm Trestle Partners. Thomas has 14 years of relevant SaaS investing and investment banking experience. He has sat on the board of Marsello, Ecwid, Pathgather (acquired by Degreed) and Glia. Before Trestle, Thomas was a Director at Grassy Creek Ventures, a single family office focused on direct private investments. Thomas began his career at Credit Suisse and Barclays. He received his BA from Wake Forest and his MBA from the Darden School of Business.
Advisory Board Members
Lisa Shalett
Founder, Extraordinary Women on Boards, Previously a Partner at Goldman Sachs, as Global Head of Brand Marketing & Digital Strategy
James Pennebaker, Ph.D.
Head of Psychology Department at the University of Texas, a world-renowned researcher in computational linguistics
Mark Mckinnon
Chief Media Advisor to two U.S. Presidents, Creator of Showtime Series The Circus
Michelle Schumaker
VP of Go-To-Market Enablement at LinkedIn, Previously Head of Sales Strategy & Insights at Google
Ethan Burris, Ph.D.
Head Of Center For Leadership & Ethics, Management Department Chair, University of Texas, Google Scholar in People Analytics
Andreas Mueller
Former CIO of Novartis Pharma, driving transformation and scaling digital tech globally, especially for customer-facing teams
Mark Newman
CEO at Nomi Health. Previously founder and CEO of HireVue
Davis Masten
Chairman, Quantified Self Labs, Stanford Media-X
Brett Hurt
CEO and Founder, Data.World. Previously co-founded & led Bazaarvoice to IPO, founded & led Coremetrics to sale to IBM
Mark Chakravarty
Mark led the Global Pharma Communications and Advocacy function on Novartis’ global Pharma Executive Committee and is in his second term on the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s appeal panel.