SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 20, 2024--

Distributional, the modern enterprise platform for AI testing, today announced the expansion of its leadership team, appointing Erin LeDell as Chief Scientist and Bonney Pelley as Chief Operating Officer. LeDell brings 20 years of AI expertise to Distributional as the former founder and CEO of AI Advisory and Consulting firm DataScientific, Inc., and the Chief Machine Learning Scientist at H2O.ai, where she created the world's first open-source enterprise AutoML algorithm. Pelley brings over 25 years of senior management experience to Distributional, coming from mParticle, where she served as COO, and prior as SVP, Strategy + Operations at New Relic, where she helped scale the company into a category leader. At Distributional, LeDell's role will include a mix of scientific leadership and oversight of product strategy, and Bonney will lead enterprise-wide business operations to meet growing demand.

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