Christopher Penn
Co-Founder And Chief Data Scientist
Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher S. Penn is a data science and AI marketing leader, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of Trust Insights, where he engineers AI-powered attribution modeling, predictive content analytics, and digital customer journey mapping. He has been working in AI since 2013, more than a decade before tools like ChatGPT brought the technology into the mainstream. An internationally recognized keynote speaker and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee podcast, he has delivered ROI-driven guidance to brands such as Cisco, T-Mobile, Citrix, GoDaddy, McDonald’s, and Twitter. His work has helped shape five key marketing trends—Google Analytics adoption, data-driven marketing and PR, modern email marketing, marketing data science, and AI/machine learning in marketing—and he is an eight-time IBM Champion in IBM Data and AI as of 2025. Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, Penn leads a team at Trust Insights while contributing to the broader marketing and data science community through speaking, publishing, and industry leadership.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Government and Political Science, Bachelors, Government and Political Science at Franklin & Marshall CollegeMS/MIS, Information Systems, MS/MIS, Information Systems at Questrom School of Business, Boston UniversityNorth Hunterdon High School
English
Stackoverflow
539reputation
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Github Skills (141)
mautic10
marketing-tools10
marketing-automation10
email-marketing10
google-trends10
marketing10
php10
text-analytics9
automation9
trends9
corpus8
music8
spotify8
to-do8
speech-to-text8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cspenn/newslettercleaner
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
cspenn/keywordspinner
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 day
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