Jon Seaton is the Director of Data Science at Functionize. Jon has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on machine learning and artificial intelligent initiatives and his background spans a range of industries from medical to finance. He was a triple major in mathematics, physics, and engineering at UW-Madison and worked at the MIT Media Lab during his PhD studies. Jon joined Venture Investors in 2013, a venture capital firm, helping them with technical due diligence and investment decisions with their $80 million fund V. He served on the board of Counterparty.io in 2014, a blockchain based technology to reduce counterparts risk in distributed financial transactions, seeing growth to over $200 million in market cap during his tenure. Jon moved to Silicon Valley in 2015 and started consulting with companies on Big Data and AI projects. He has worked with Apple, Pandora Radio (now Sirius XM), Here Technologies (consortium of Audi, BMW, and Daimler), and many others. He joined Functionize in 2017 and has since been instrumental in their development of machine learning for use in software testing. Jon has a passion for entrepreneurship and is actively involved in spending his time and energy towards helping startups succeed.