
David Talby
CEO, John Snow Labs
CEO, Pacific AI
David Talby is the CEO of John Snow Labs and Pacific AI, and the creator of Spark NLP, the most widely used natural language processing library in the enterprise. He holds a PhD and MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and built web-scale platforms earlier in his career at Microsoft Bing and Amazon before serving as CTO at Usermind. He has been named CTO of the Year multiple times, including by the Global 100 Awards, and leads the fairness and bias-mitigation workgroup at the Coalition for Health AI. Martlet AI's underlying medical language models and AI governance framework come from the John Snow Labs and Pacific AI stack David leads.