Victoria (Tori) Westerhoff

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led AI Security operations at Microsoft.
  • Created monetization strategies for Mixed Reality products.
  • Developed NLP tools for executive insights.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technology and Consulting expert with a focus on AI, Data Analysis, and Business Strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai SecurityTeam ManagementBusiness StrategyMarket AnalysisPeople AnalyticsNlpData AnalysisConsultingBusiness AnalysisRisk AnalysisPolicy Development

Other Skills

AI Security & SafetyAI technology testingCommunity OutreachLegal ResearchMatlabMicrosoft ExcelNatural Language ProcessingNon-profitsNonprofit OrganizationsPolicy AnalysisProgram EvaluationPsychologyQualitative ResearchRed Team operationsResearch

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Director, Microsoft AI Red Team

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Leading all AI Security & Safety Red Team operations and frontier testing, from features to models, directly informing c-suite decision makers
  • Managing a cross-functional team of white-hat hackers, testing all of Microsoft's high risk gen-AI technology
  • Building innovative, first-and-best-in-class methods and procedures for safe and efficient AI red teaming for all high-risk Microsoft products.
  • Co-author of MITRE ATLAS LMM attack framework, open sourcing knowledge gained from RAI red teaming. Featured speaker at Georgetown CSET, Princeton, MIT, Standford, L33tspeak Podcast, Kelley School of Business, /Build, and industry conferences. Work published and quoted in National Defense Magazine, Axios, The Register, as ICML 2025 spotlight paper/poster, MLADS, and IB Analytics.
  • Scaling AI red teaming across Microsoft via programing and process creation.
AI Security & SafetyRed Team operationscross-functional team managementAI technology testingprogram creationpublic speaking+3

Senior Manager, Strategy and Business Planner for Mixed Reality (AR/VR)

Feb 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Created business model and monetization strategy for Microsoft Mesh, Avatars, and MR services on Microsoft Teams.
  • Led team of four FTEs, had a 100% re-recruitment rate of rotational directs and mentees.
  • Own go-to-market strategy and business models for AR/VR Microsoft products, i.e. Mixed Reality, including Hololens, Altspace, Kinect, and Azure-enabled services
  • Modeled and created monetization frameworks of Mixed Reality hardware, Microsoft's metaverse strategy, AR/VR apps, MR services and platform SKUs
  • Planed product strategy based on market and competitive analysis
  • Collaborated with over 50 stakeholders across engineering, product management, marketing, sales, and finance to ship Mixed Reality products to market
business model creationmonetization strategygo-to-market strategymarket analysisstakeholder collaborationBusiness Strategy+1

People Analytics Lead

Nov 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Product Manager for Natural Language Processing Analysis Tool:
  • Produced, as product manager, a bleeding edge natural language processing AI/ML tool that dynamically analyzes millions of employee comments annually
  • Contributed to industry and academic presentations, specifically originating the business cases and implementations in a featured SIOP Methods showcase presentation
  • Envisioned and delivered next generation NLP analyses to every member of the Microsoft executive team and their HR leadership on culture, strategy, and leadership sentiment. Now used for entire company
  • Manager of People Analytics for Seven Microsoft C-Suite Executives:
  • Led people analytics and workforce data insight strategies for Worldwide Sales and Services, Marketing, and Business Development executive business leaders and their HR leadership, orchestrating strategy and implementation over 38,000 employees
  • Independently managed all people analytics delivered directly to top executives of Microsoft's Finance, Legal, Business Development, and HR departments, reporting insights and recommendations to respective executives and their leadership teams, implemented across 10,000 people
  • Developed analysis resulting in leadership shifts, organizational changes, retention and attrition investments, and people strategies
  • People Development Mentor:
  • Trained, onboarded, and formally mentored half of the new hires to Microsoft People Analytics consultants
  • Managed FTE in analytics to support the CFO in deep dive, exploratory analytics projects
Natural Language ProcessingPeople Analyticsdata insight strategiesexecutive reportingNLP

People Analytics Consultant

May 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Summer internship that was extended to part-time work throughout 2nd year at Wharton.
  • Behavioral Data and Business Analysis for Engineering:
  • Spearheaded first company-wide data analysis project that identifies behavioral patterns to inform reward and recruiting systems
  • Data Analysis, Visualization, and Businesses Strategy for Marketing, Sales, and Acquisition Teams:
  • Instituted three longitudinal data analysis projects that quantify culture change and program effectiveness for CMO, leading to FY18 program changes slotted to increase retention of top performing employees
  • Created five living PowerBI dashboards for CMO and HR leaders to evaluate resource productivity, diversity and inclusion efforts, retention programs, and acquisition success
  • Team Development and Training for Human Resources Business Insights Team:
  • Trained new employees in data analysis, storytelling, and data visualization, decreasing onboarding process by three weeks per team member
data analysisbehavioral patternsdata visualizationlongitudinal studiesData AnalysisBusiness Strategy

Mentalic labs consulting

Founder

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

  • Established consulting firm bringing cognitive science to business analysis and transformation solutions. Specialize in bridging the gap between neuroscience and behavioral science academic research and impactful business interventions. Leverage networks of luminaries in both academic and strategic management consulting communities.
cognitive sciencebusiness analysisconsultingConsultingBusiness Analysis

Deloitte consulting llp.

3 roles

Strategy and Operations Consultant

Aug 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Insider Trust Program Assessment for Walmart:
  • Analyzed the insider threat program governing over 3M employees, delivering a complete current state assessment with over 20 immediately implementable recommendations to the Director of the insider threat division
  • Leveraged People Analytics experience and cognitive science background to inform the data-driven behavioral profiles associated with risks, such as workplace violence, sabotage, fraud, etc.
  • Business Analysis and Strategy for Dept. of State, Hostage Recovery, Abductions, and Adoptions:
  • Authored infographic and cross-departmental hostage recovery process analysis for White House;
  • received accolades in President Obama’s reaction statement
  • Created 11 Tableau dashboards and data analysis protocols for performance metrics across four
  • cross-functional teams to optimize international child abduction tracking, adoption, and citizen
  • outreach efforts
  • Independently analyzed Facebook crisis outreach efforts during international terrorist event and
  • recommended strategic communications improvements that were accepted and deployed by lead
  • for agency's social media within two weeks of major international crisis
  • Trained team of 14 on data visualization, innovative idea creation, and presentation skills
  • Go To Market Strategy and Data Analysis for Dept. of Homeland Security Office for Bombing Prevention:
  • Designed databases and three Tableau dashboards that combined internal operations data with
  • national threat and state priority data to create the first comprehensive targeting tool for bombing
  • prevention outreach
  • Created a quality assurance program for all state-delivered bombing prevention training, nation-
  • wide
insider threat analysisdata-driven behavioral profilesperformance metricsRisk AnalysisData Analysis

Strategy and Operations Analyst

Sep 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Business Process Strategy and PM at FBI Finance Division:
  • Led team of 10 cross-functional consultants to implement the first comprehensive governance
  • system of business processes and policies for the over 800 employees of the Finance Division
  • Operated as main client contact on the ground for executive suite of Finance Division and 56
  • additional clients
  • Ideated strategy and execution plans to publish over 600 pages of financial management
  • business processes, closed over 130 policy gaps, and rendered over 75 CPI improvements
  • Created a monthly proactive policy trend report for the CFO
  • Trained over 45 people in storyboarding, presentation skills, and visualization development
business process strategygovernance systemspolicy developmentBusiness StrategyPolicy Development

Strategy and Operations Summer Scholar

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Arlington, VA

  • Market Entry Strategy and Implementation for an intelligence agency:
  • Facilitated two joint-merger propositions with international CEOs and informed negotiations with independent geopolitical, and regulatory analysis of war-torn country; led to 2M contract with intelligence agency
  • Analyzed and delivered market-entry strategies to establish businesses in an overseas, volatile sector; go-to-market strategy implemented by agency in lieu of 11 alternate options recommended by full-time Deloitte Consultants

Yale university

2 roles

Chief Master's Aide at Trumbull College

May 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs · New Haven, CT

  • Acted as liaison between residential college Master's Office, over 400 students, over 700 parents and 25 faculty fellows
  • Led, trained, and managed team of 10 Aides

Research Assistant at Yale ACME and Yale Perception & Cognition Lab

Sep 2009 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos · New Haven, CT

  • Researched psychological findings and methods for John Bargh and Brian Scholl
  • Engineered, organized, and ran studies with multiple interdisciplinary teams
  • Presented research findings to groups of 50 or more
  • Envisioned, programmed, and implemented independent research on unconscious decision making and visual perception

Commonwealth of massachusetts

2 roles

Legislative and Policy Intern

Jun 2009 – Sep 2009 · 3 mos · Boston, MA

  • Researched bills, issues and news, attended hearings, synthesized daily summaries for cross-
  • functional team
  • Answered and updated constituent inquiries in collaboration with multiple legislative teams
  • Trained new aides and prepared messaging for team representatives

Legislative Intern

Jun 2008 – Aug 2008 · 2 mos · Boston, MA

  • • Researched bills, issues and news; attended and summarized hearings; answered and updated constituent inquiries

Education

Yale University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — Cognitive Science

The Wharton School

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Marketing and Operations & Organizational Effectiveness

Wellesley High School

High School Diploma

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