Celebrating Innovation: Meet the 2024 Pioneer Awards Finalists

Today, we’re thrilled to celebrate 23 trailblazing Amplitude users as part of the fourth annual Pioneer Awards. With over 3,000 organizations leveraging Amplitude, these awards spotlight the individuals and teams pushing the boundaries of Digital Analytics—creating insightful charts, sharing impactful data stories, and driving strategic actions that transform their businesses.

This year’s finalists embody what it means to turn data into action. They’ve used Amplitude to innovate across marketing, product development, data analysis, engineering, and beyond. They’ve demonstrated the power of data to fuel creativity, empower teams, and craft experiences with a deep and lasting customer impact. And with their bold achievements, these pioneers aren’t just embracing innovation—they’re inspiring it.

The Pioneer of the Year

This award honors three leaders globally who have led their teams and organizations to do more with data and have left a measurable impact on their organizations. These finalists thrive on creating strategic business value for their customers, teams, and products. They leverage data as the growth engine to drive continuous improvements.

• Jarrad Phoebe - Product Management Lead at Reece
• Jeremy Echols - Senior Digital Analytics Manager at Glassdoor
• Mandy Chatigny - Senior Manager of Product Analytics at Mint Mobile & Ultra Mobile
• Mateusz (Mat) Raczyński - Head of Data at Paired
• Paige DeRaedt - Senior Analytics Manager at Strava
• Rinky Devarapally - Data Product Manager at SafetyCulture
• Tal Bergman - Chief Data Officer (ANZ) at Zip Co

The Transformer

This award singles out champions who led the transformation to a customer-first, data-driven culture. This pioneer democratized insights, allowing more people to access data and analytics in their everyday work. They have helped cross-functional teams make qualitative to quantitative decisions and created an environment where teams across the data literacy spectrum feel autonomous, safe, and enabled.

• Greg Koch - Director of Analytics at Ipsy
• John Wilkes - Sr. Product Manager, Product Analytics Platform at FanDuel
• Moss Pauly - Senior Manager, Data Products at Zip Co

The Innovator

Honors individuals who use data insights through analytics and experimentation to build new, cutting-edge products, experiences, or features. Their innovation and data-driven product strategy set a new bar for the industry while continually impressing their customers.

• Blake Woodson - Senior Digital Analytics Engineer at Glassdoor
• Faith McGee - Senior Research Manager at Electronic Arts
• Nikhil Agrawal - Product & Engineering Lead at Learneo - Quillbot

The Illuminator

Honors a marketer with a "Customer-first" motto. This winner has found game-changing insights and amazing ways to use Amplitude data to improve marketing KPIs, drive significant business impact, and increase audience activation through personalized experiences.

• Heesue Jang - Growth Manager at Vespexx
• Joshua Leigh - Senior Digital Performance Lead at Zoom
• Sajini Jacob - Performance Marketing Manager at Multibank Group

The Cultivator

The give-back award—time to recognize your fearless leader who leverages data to grow the business, pushing a data-first culture across the organization and creating a collaborative environment for your team to thrive. This winner has helped their organization rally around a data-driven growth strategy through effective uses of Amplitude to deliver new value to the business.

• Cheng Dao - Director, Product Analytics at Cox Automotive
• Coty Pastene - Manager, Data Product & Strategy at Fender
• Daniel Monteiro - Head of Product Development at Globoplay
• Miguel Bravo - Leader, Digital & Online Analytics at Zoom

Data Excellence Award

Recognizes a company committed to leveraging Amplitude to optimize its business and become more customer-centric. This organization successfully executed strategic initiatives that improved digital adoption, optimized acquisition strategies, or effectively grew market share among existing customers by making better decisions with data.

• Greenlight Guru
• OKX
• Taco Bell

The excitement is building! This year’s Pioneer Awards winners will be handpicked by an incredible panel of expert judges, including Amplitude’s own Chief Product Officer François Ajenstat, Chief Marketing Officer Tifenn Dano Kwan, and Global VP of Customer Success Jenna Elliott.