John Wilbanks
Chief Data Officer
Owkin
John Wilbanks is Chief Data Officer at Owkin, where he brings 25 years of experience at the intersection of data, AI, policy, and science. Previously he led data at Astera Institute, headed product and UX at the Broad Institute's Data Science Platform (65,000+ users, 100PB of genomic data), and was Head of Data at Biogen Digital Health. Before that, as Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks, he helped unlock informed consent for mobile clinical studies adopted by Apple, Android, and the NIH with millions of research participants enrolled. His technical background spans standards work at W3C, a visiting scientist role at MIT's Project on Mathematics and Computation, and as founding CEO of a pioneering knowledge graph bioinformatics company.
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