Bennett is a product executive with a background in data science, policy development and implementation, and people management. He has led product and program teams in the data and AI/ML space supporting political, commercial, and research use cases. He is an expert in helping organizations develop and execute strategies that support their mission.
Bennett is a co-founder and Principal Consultant at Working Paper, where he helps clients establish product and engineering teams, supports established product teams that are evolving into mature, process-driven organizations, drives strategy and execution for 0-1 programs and products, and provides strategic guidance to executives when their programs and products interact with complex regulatory environments or critical policy objectives.
Bennett was previously Chief Product Officer at Yobi, where he worked with Fortune 500 companies to privately and safely monetize their data by leveraging privacy enhancing technologies and modern AI systems.
He also held multiple strategic roles at Meta, including as the Data and Tooling Lead for the Open Research and Transparency Team and as the Privacy Policy Lead for Research Data Sharing. There he launched the Meta Research Platform, product managed the privacy infrastructure and experimental interventions for the largest consented political science study ever conducted, and did policy and product work to launch other highly impactful datasets.
Prior to his work at Meta, Bennett held the roles of Director of Analytics Products and the Director of Data Science at Catalist, where he led the team in launching the "what happened" series, one of the most accurate and comprehensive assessments of population-level electoral behavior in the US.
In his early career, Bennett worked on hardware, firmware, and systems for signal processing applications on embedded systems.
He teaches a course on using product management skills to improve policy development, delivery, and iteration at the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy, near where he lives in Washington DC, with his wife, Cori, and their two children, Harper and Felix.