About Turbine Labs

In the concept of a turbine, air or liquid that is picked up by the intake is converted into something far more compact, rich, and useful than it was in its previous state. That’s the goal of Turbine Labs – to take the world’s external information and transform it into actionable intelligence that is compact, rich, and useful.

By delivering depth, context, and clarity on key topics, we help our customers make better, more-informed decisions. Faster.

Our Mission

We deliver accurate, unbiased intelligence to the world’s most important decision makers to help inform their most critical decisions.

Our Vision

Turbine Labs will be the de facto market standard for how organizational leaders and their support teams obtain and use information.

Our Values

We’re curious.
We deliver the truth.
We do the right thing.
We are accountable to each other and our customers.
We dig deep into challenges and work hard to find solutions.
We always deliver an experience that exceeds what our customers expect.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously.

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LEIGH FATZINGER

VISION/GROWTH

Leigh oversees overall strategy, marketing, and product vision at Turbine Labs. He founded the company in 2014 to address a simple yet widespread issue among senior level decision makers and teams: accessing accurate information is too difficult. Leigh is a serial entrepreneur in the big data and social media space, having previously founded Prosodic, a predictive analytics firm, and Nology Media, a social media management firm. He serves on the board of trustees of the John Austin Cheley Foundation.

TOM TEYNOR

EXECUTION

Tom oversees all operational and administrative functions of Turbine Labs. Prior to joining Turbine Labs, Tom served in C-level executive functions at three start-ups, including Ascent360, a SaaS-based martech firm, Alysis Technologies, a SaaS-based fintech firm, and Coolerado, a cleantech manufacturing company. He also serves on the board of Clean Energy Credit Union and as an instructor for the Energy i-Corps program. Tom received his BA and MBA from University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

PAWAN LAKSHMANAN

PRODUCT

Pawan leads Turbine Labs’ product development team, including the engineering, Natural Language Processing, and machine learning functions. Prior to joining Turbine Labs, Pawan was Senior Software Architect at IBM Watson and Director of Engineering at AlchemyAPI (acquired by IBM). Pawan earned is BE in Electrical Engineering from PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore, India, and his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

JASON MORIBER

STRATEGY

Jason is the strategic lead, focusing on product development, business development and client engagement. After spending a decade running a boutique MarCom agency, over the past ten years he’s worked both at global powerhouse agencies (Weber Shandwick, WE Comms) as well as on the brand side at the Fortune 15 company, Verizon, where he held a handful of roles leading Digital Strategy, Corporate Comms, Organizational Strategy, and Business Transformation projects. A creative and eclectic “outside the box” thinker, Jason has a BFA from the University of the Arts, and an MFA from UCONN.

ERICA SCHECHER

TALENT

Erica oversees employee experience at Turbine Labs, including human resources, recruiting, as well as employee development and wellness. She previously managed community and educational affairs for FIDM, as well as spent nearly a decade as an entrepreneur in the beauty industry. She received her BA in Organizational Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and her MS in Corporate Communications from University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.