As founder and host of the Data Exchange podcast, Ben Lorica is a highly respected data scientist, having served leading roles at O'Reilly Media (Chief Data Scientist, Program Chair of the Strata Data Conference, O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, and TensorFlow World), at Databricks, and as an advisor to startups. He serves as co-chair for several leading industry conferences: the AI Conference, the NLP Summit, the Data+AI Summit, the Ray Summit, and K1st World.

Ayal is CEO and Co-founder of Anjuna Security. Ayal has 20 years of experience in the enterprise security market, serving most recently as VP of Product Management at SafeBreach. Prior to that, he led the Umbrella product management team at OpenDNS, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015 for $635M. Ayal has also held senior product management positions at Lookout and Imperva, and he was part of Imperva's IPO in 2011.

Ayal holds an MBA with honors from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.