Head of Data Strategy
Amazon Music
June Dershewitz has spent her career driving analytics strategies for major businesses. In her current role at Amazon, she guides strategy and execution across Amazon Music’s portfolio of data science, data engineering and business intelligence initiatives. As an analytics practitioner, she has built and led teams that focus on marketing analytics, product analytics and data governance. In her prior life as a consultant, she was a member of the leadership team at Semphonic, a prominent analytics consultancy (now part of Ernst & Young). As a long-standing advocate of the analytics community, she was the co-founder of Web Analytics Wednesdays, and she currently serves as President of the Board of the Digital Analytics Association. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Fun fact: early in her career, June was a research assistant for a grant-funded project called The Math Forum, which was housed at Drexel University for many years.