Kelly Trindel is head of industrial organizational science and diversity analytics at pymetrics Inc., where she helps the company proactively test for hidden racial/ethnic and gender biases in assessment tools. The New York-based startup, which received $40 million in venture capital funding last fall, uses games based on cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence to help employers find the candidates who best fit their needs, while reducing gender and racial biases. Pymetrics’ cloud-based assessment tools are being used by Tesla, LinkedIn and Unilever, among others.

Before joining the company early last year, Trindel, who has a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, was chief analyst and research director at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. While there, she provided statistical analytical support to the commission’s discrimination investigations and case development for nearly eight years during the Obama administration.