Building Momentum and a World-Class Privacy Company

The progress we’ve made since we founded Gretel two years ago has been incredible. Even as an optimist, I knew then what remains true today: building a great team and product takes time and a lot of work. Thankfully, since founding Gretel, with the simple but powerful goal of making data safe and shareable, we’ve been extremely fortunate to have a diverse group of brilliant thinkers and makers join our team.?

Building out a strong leadership team?

Building a world-class privacy company starts with a leadership team that can deliver results every day, despite the inevitable obstacles and setbacks thrown their way. Having seasoned experts in these positions is essential to scaling teams in highly competitive, emerging product markets like privacy engineering and synthetic data. That’s why we’re so excited to welcome to the Gretel team Jan Schwoebel, as our head of CX and solutions engineering, Jeremy Powers, as our vice president of sales, and Jenn Yonemitsu, as our vice president of marketing.?

• Jan is one of the best in the business at designing and delivering exceptional customer experiences for technology products and services. He comes to us after leading the customer engineering and enablement team at Pachyderm, a pioneer in the MLOps platform space.?
• Jeremy brings a wealth of relevant experience from nearly two decades of work in technical product development, customer success management, and, most recently, as a regional vice president growing a successful global sales team at MongoDB.?
• Jenn is a veteran product marketer who has worked at the intersection of data, cybersecurity, and developer engagement for much of her career. She's successfully led technical marketing teams at innovative startups like Sendbird, DataStax, and Synack, as well as industry-leading enterprise technology companies for emerging markets.

All three leaders bring deep expertise to our team and share a passion and proven track record of product-led growth. We are grateful to have them on board!

Strong Traction Amongst Customers Since GA

With Gretel’s recent general availability announcement, the timing of Jan, Jeremy, and Jenn’s arrival to the team could not be better. We've successfully tested our products through engagements with Fortune 500 companies, have a growing community of thousands of users, and an open-source SDK that's been downloaded more than 70,000 times.

Though our beta testing days are behind us, we remain focused on showing our users, partners, and the broader public why privacy and safety are essential to working with data.?

The product feedback so far has been unanimous — Gretel is fast, easy to use, and opens doors for those who would love to work with data but currently can't. We’ve built a privacy toolkit that’s accessible to all developers and data users, and scalable to any enterprise-ready project.

It is inspiring to see Gretel resonating with so many different audiences and industry verticals. It makes me incredibly excited about the future of the company.?

I believe our success will continue to come from the creativity, ingenuity, and humility that our staff brings to their work every day. If you are interested in joining Gretel we are growing fast! You can find out more about current job openings on our careers page or drop us a note at [email protected].?

You can also join me and my co-founders, Alex Watson and John Myers live tomorrow for a community AMA event. We’ll be answering questions from Gretel users and others interested in learning more about synthetic data and privacy engineering. You can register here.?I hope to see you there!

- Ali Golshan, co-founder and CEO, Gretel.ai