DJ Patil 

Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock; Diverse experiences in a wide range of domains.

Monica Rogati

Senior Data Scientist @ LinkedIn; Hands on, no-nonsense data science generalist.

Nicholas Wakefield 

Data Scientist and Data Warehousing Advisor.

Peter Skomoroch 

Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn; My mission in life is to create intelligent systems that help people make better decisions.

Chris Pouliot 

Director, Algorithms & Analytics at Netflix

Kurt Brown

Director, Data Science & Engineering Platform at Netflix; My passion is the marriage of business and technology.

Matthew Pasienski 

Associate Product Manager at Ooyala; I bring a rigorous analytical perspective to organizations trying to do more with data.

Jacque Istok 

President, Professional Innovations, Inc; Jacque Istok serves as a key technologist inside of EMC DCD, (formerly Greenplum, Inc.).

Note: LinkedIn does not explain how it came up with this ranking.