Francine Bennett is a data scientist, and is the CEO and cofounder of Mastodon C. Mastodon C are agile big data specialists, who offer the open source big data technology and data science skills which help organisations to realise the potential of their data, and who are currently building the Witan city data platform.

Before founding Mastodon C, she spent a number of years working on big data analysis for Google, helping them to turn lots of data into even more money. She enjoys good coffee, running, sleeping as much as possible, and exploring large datasets.