Heeren joined Gradient AI to grow its engineering team and build world-class machine learning offerings. He brings over 30 years of leadership experience building and leading both engineering and product teams across a wide range of industries and problem domains. 

Prior to Gradient AI, Heeren was the Chief Technology Officer at Vestmark, where he was recognized as a thought-leader in the wealth management industry and is active in a wide range of industry associations and initiatives, chairing a number of industry committees. He has also served in leadership roles at a number of public and start-up companies including Vignette Corporation, Simulation Sciences Corp., Workgroup Technology Corporation, and MITRE Corporation.

Heeren holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and a MS in Computer Engineering from Boston University.