Ryan Boyko founded Embark after a decade spent using novel analytical approaches to tackle tough questions in public health, ecology, and industry. From Ebola outbreaks to retailer analytics to social evolution and sports science, Boyko has worked and published across a number of fields. Throughout that time, Boyko traveled the world collecting dog samples and contributing to a number of scientific studies. Boyko founded Embark to bring the critical insights obtained from this research to dog owners and to unlock the potential for Big Data to improve the lives of dogs and humans the world over. He has a BA in Computer Science from Harvard and graduate degrees in public health and ecology from Yale and the University of California at Davis.