Cynthia Pekron

Cynthia Pekron is Head of Morningstar’s Data Collections Systems building platforms and AI capabilities that power data at scale.

Cynthia specializes in human-in-the-loop machine learning systems, product development, and operational transformation. She is a thought leader in applied AI, collaborating with INSEAD, Harvard, and Vanderbilt and lecturing at NYU, Northwestern, and DePaul.

After leaving Amazon.com, Cynthia joined Morningstar to build some of the firm’s most iconic analytics including the Morningstar Medalist Rating,using a proprietary human-in-the-loop machine learning system resulting in 10x analyst productivity, and 20x increase in ratings coverage. She recently launched Morningstar’s LLM data extraction engine and Morningstar’s first agent-collected datasets with over 99%+ accuracy.

Cynthia serves as an Ambassador for the Analytics Leaders Network and on Morningstar’s AI Council. Cynthia holds her bachelor’s from Georgetown and her master’s from Carnegie Mellon. She’s passionate about libraries and ice cream as a year-round sport. She lives in the suburbs with her husband and 4 children.