Hilary Mason
Data scientist; co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door; founded Fast Forward Labs.
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- Hilary Mason is an American data scientist and entrepreneur.
- She is co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, as of 2026.
- She founded the applied machine learning research company Fast Forward Labs in 2014; Cloudera bought it in 2017 and she ran machine learning there through 2020.
- Before that she was chief scientist at bitly.
- In 2010 she co-founded hackNY.
Key facts
- Role
- Co-founder and CEO, Hidden Door (as of 2026)2
- Earlier
- Chief scientist at bitly (until 2014); founder of Fast Forward Labs (2014, acquired by Cloudera in 2017); general manager of machine learning at Cloudera (2017 to 2020); data scientist in residence at Accel2
- Co-founded
- hackNY (2010); DataGotham conference (2012)2
- Books
- Data Driven, with DJ Patil; Ethics and Data Science, with Mike Loukides and DJ Patil (O'Reilly)2
- Education
- BA in computer science, Grinnell College (2000)1
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