Sheryl Allen

Sheryl Allen leads the passionate Next Big Sound team at Pandora. Next Big Sound is a top provider of music analytics, tracking hundreds of thousands of artists around the world. As part of Pandora, Next Big Sound delivers powerful analytics tools and contextual insights used by industry professionals, labels and marketers looking to use data to connect artists and their fans. She is a co-founder of the NYC GroupBy, a semi-annual event that seeks to build community amongst local data and analytics professionals. Before exploring her love of music and joining Pandora, Sheryl spent 20 years navigating the financial industry, creating new products and leading engineering organizations at American Express. Sheryl and the rest of Next Big Sound team are located here in Pandora’s New York City offices, so swing by and say “Hi!”