Wendy Gonzalez

CEO, Sama

Having served as President and COO at Sama since 2018, Wendy stepped into the role of Interim CEO when our CEO and founder, Leila Janah, passed away in January of 2020 following a battle with epithelioid sarcoma.Over the past year, Wendy has successfully led the Sama team through the uncertainty of 2020 while achieving significant organizational milestones along the way. As a company, we’ve continued to develop our leading training data platform, including launching Machine Learning Assisted Annotation which has improved annotation efficiency by over 300% to regularly deliver quality SLAs between 96-99%.In addition to recruiting an engineering workforce of more than 30% Ph.Ds., under Wendy’s leadership, Sama has achieved a three-year revenue growth of 134%, gaining recognition on the Inc. 5000 list as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies