Lauren Talbot is a managing director at K2 Integrity, where she applies data as a strategic asset to solve complex challenges. Bringing a proven ability to adapt, innovate, and deliver expert value across diverse industries, Lauren is highly skilled at cutting through noise to define and achieve ambitious targets—whether pre-established or emerging—and excels at aligning strategy, development, and teams to deliver impactful solutions at scale.
Before joining K2 Integrity, Lauren served as chief executive officer at Pull App Corp., where she led technology planning and strategy development in the generative AI space. In this role, she established and monitored key performance indicators for clients, oversaw vendor selection and management to optimize product performance and maximize ROI, and collaborated across teams to design strategies and product plans aligned with client goals. She also developed tools to track metrics such as data and product quality and drove projects supporting long-term strategic priorities.
Prior to her work at Pull App Corp., Lauren held several senior leadership roles at leading global omnichannel dog brand BARK. As vice president of data science and machine learning, she led cross-functional teamwork and business analysis to implement data-driven personalization, spearheaded the company’s first experiment protocol and tooling, and defined and implemented the company’s end-to-end data science and machine learning processes. Earlier, as vice president of data and analytics, she drove cross-functional adoption of data-centric analysis and led software development, maintenance, and communication of core datasets and reporting through the company’s IPO. She first joined BARK as director of data and analytics, where she established hiring and leveling processes, built a cross-functional analytics team, led SQL and Python software development for data operations, and standardized automated reporting across the business.
Lauren holds a M.Eng. in computer science from Cornell University and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.