Sandra 'Sandy' Serkes is the co-founder, president and CEO of Valora Technologies, a Massachusetts software company that has spent more than 25 years teaching machines to read, sort and tag the mountains of documents that organizations forget they own. An MIT and Harvard Business School graduate, she built Valora's PowerHouse and BlackCat platforms into autoclassification tools used by legal, compliance, government and corporate teams to find sensitive information, retire 'dark data' and get ready for AI. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a frequent industry speaker, and a 2006 'Woman to Watch.'
Valora Technologies is a Massachusetts-based information governance company that builds AutoClassification software powered by machine learning. Its PowerHouse engine and BlackCat interface scan, analyze, tag, and defensibly dispose of enterprise content across cloud and on-premises repositories, helping legal, compliance, records, and IT teams tame sprawling, unstructured data for privacy, eDiscovery, and AI-readiness use cases.