Conor B. Murphy
Limited Partner at Lionheart Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Data Science Manager
2023 - Current
Staff Data Scientist (L6) and Data Science Manager
2022 - 2023
Staff Data Scientist (L6)
2020 - 2022
Senior Data Scientist (L5)
2019 - 2020
Data Scientist (L4)
2017 - 2018
Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.
Founding Limited Partner and Scientific Advisor
2021
Investment and advising of this pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm investing globally in startups that make humanity more resilient
Lionheart Ventures is a global, seed-stage venture capital firm focused on mitigating civilizational risk.
Advisor
2021
Scientific advising and fundraising for this petroleum alternative technology company with sustainable product lines and patent portfolio in consumer, clinical, energy, and industrial markets
Ojai Energetics is a health, wellness, and fitness company. It is an ethics-driven health and wellness cannabis technology company.
Member
2022
Chief Science Officer
2019 - 2022
Principal investigator advancing research to decode the neurobiology of flow states with a focus on the autonomic nervous system, endocannabinoid system and validating the structure and function of flow triggers
Instructor, Data Scientist
2017 - 2017
Graduate-level instruction for a Masters of Science in Data Science program fully accredited by the University of New Haven with a focus on machine learning, data engineering and distributed technologies • Delivery of lectures on Python, machine learning, statistics, cloud computing and software development • Advising students in their work with industry partners during their internships and capstone projects to drive their efforts towards business needs with rigorous and scalable solutions • Curriculum design on topics such as extending Spark’s ML library, multiprocessing and functional programming • Lead programming agile “sprints” for student work on real-world data science projects with our industry partners
Regional Grants Officer
2013 - 2016
Managed a $8.7M portfolio of humanitarian, scholarship and block grants primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and The Middle East with a focus on driving grant recipients towards maximizing impact through data • Analyzed the impact of a new grant model on participation in foundation programs and fundraising using hypothesis testing and linear regression in R, including visualizations with ggplot2 intended for foundation trustees • Specialized in economic development including co-leading a team to educate staff, constituents and the community on industry trends such as randomized controlled trials and data acquisition in a developing context • Supervised and mentored interns from the US government’s Young African Leaders Initiative • Organized and led a data science team comprised of staff interested in skill building and online competitions • Contributed to a team tasked with educating Rotary's constituents on social business, startup incubation and benefit corporations
Humanitarian Grants Coordinator
2013 - 2013
Recommended grants for approval, processed grant reporting documentation and managed legacy grants with a total portfolio ranging up to $16M • Evaluated microcredit loan portfolio performance with recommendations for project design changes • Guided flagship “Health, Hunger and Humanity” grants to completion during the implementation phase • Proficient use of foundation technology such as netFORUM, PeopleSoft and WEED
Rotary International is an international service organization.
Education
Applied Neuroscience, MSc
2020 - 2022
Data Science Fellow
2016 - 2016
Master of Arts (M.A.)
2010 - 2011
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2006 - 2010