Mode Expands Management Team with New VP of Data, Taylor Holland

San Francisco, CA – October 13, 2022 –Mode Analytics, the modern Business Intelligence (BI) platform that helps businesses scale quickly, today announced the addition of Taylor Holland as Vice President of Data. Holland will be joining us at Coalesce in New Orleans, October 18-20, 2022.

“Modern BI is about enabling successful collaboration on analysis and generating collective understanding across the entire business,” said Gaurav Rewari, Chief Executive Officer, Mode Analytics. “We are confident that Taylor Holland’s deep expertise and perspective will help to position Mode for success as we continue to build the new era of Modern BI for data teams.”

As Vice President of Data, Taylor Holland will help accelerate Mode’s next phase of growth by continuing to build a world-class data team, and optimizing the use of data in the company’s product offerings.  He will also partner with Heads of Data at Mode customers and prospects to help evolve their approach to partnering across the business and driving strategic value from their teams. Prior to Mode, Holland served as Head of Data Science for Facebook’s AI Platform, and was the Head of Data Science & Machine Learning at GitHub. He also held analytical and operational roles at Heroku and Salesforce. 

“The role of a data team leader is expanding at a rapid pace, and now includes setting vision for how data can transform company strategy and unlocking deeper, organization-wide value from their data stack investment,” said Taylor Holland, VP of Data, Mode Analytics. “Meeting this change in the market often requires new ways of working: engaging on high-leverage data projects to grow and optimize the business, and enabling richer self-service analytics—all on top of a unified foundation of data and tooling.  Mode is the best-positioned platform to deliver on that promise, with a product that combines code and no-code tools in one surface area and unifies the workflows of data teams and business users in new ways.”

Mode’s modern Business Intelligence (BI) platform enables analysts to provide best-in-class decision support, answering even the most complex business questions quickly and efficiently.  It also empowers business stakeholders to answer their own questions, and in doing so, transforms data culture and improves business decisions company-wide. Mode’s customers realize greater ROI on their data stacks and greater operational efficiency powered by data.  Unlike legacy BI tools, Mode offers a single platform that flexes based on organizational needs, and decreases cycle time between data teams and business teams as the company scales. The Mode platform provides a better way to quickly answer questions and advance knowledge across the organization, in order to drive high-quality, high-velocity decisions. 

 In 2022, Mode has earned four awards for Visual Explorer, its best-in-class visualization suite that helps data analysts explore data faster and provides easy-to-interpret insights to stakeholders.  The 2022 SaaS Awards included Mode’s Visual Explorer on a short list for “Best Data Innovation in a SaaS Product,” The 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards selected it as “Best Business Information or Data Delivery Service,” The 14th Annual 2022 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards named itas “Best Business Intelligence Innovation,” and  The 17th Annual 2022 Information Technology Awards recognized Mode’s entire Visual Explorer team in the category of “Business Intelligence and Analytics.” 

To learn more about Mode’s Mode’s Modern BI platform, please visit https://mode.com/. If you plan to be at Coalesce in New Orleans, please stop to meet Taylor Holland in person at booth 204.