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A woman of many talents, Rosemary Hua DeAragon isn’t content with one career. Instead, she juggles two, combining her big-data savvy with an early passion for altruism.
At 16, DeAragon won a travel award to Ghana, where she co-founded the nonprofit Empathy FX International, which builds schools and technology centers and awards university scholarships.
Her knack for data developed at Haas, where she worked part-time for a startup that collected retail data. She also served as president of the Haas Business School Association.
“I found it healthy to have two aspects to my career, one that was more around my passion, and the other that was more around my interest, something that I’m good at,” she says.
That formula has served her well. Post-graduation, DeAragon snagged a job with Amazon, learning analytics on the fly. “I had to learn how to code and learn SQL and R,” she says.
She then joined Walmart, eventually becoming director of global data strategy and planning. While there, she served as CEO of the Revolution Robotics Foundation, which produces low-cost robotics kits to promote STEM education in underserved communities.
In 2020, she moved to cloud-based data-warehousing company Snowflake, which serves startups to Fortune 500 companies. DeAragon’s division leads strategy for all retail, consumer product goods, travel, and hospitality companies worldwide. She’s grown Snowflake’s market share by more than 105% year-over-year in these industries.
Her success landed her a spot on the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for transforming business with machine learning and AI. She was also recognized for her second career uplifting nonprofits.
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