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Eventbrite appoints Dr. Pilar Manchón to board

Eventbrite has appointed Dr. Pilar Manchón to the company’s board. Dr. Manchón is the senior director of Engineering, Research Strategy at Google AI.

Dr. Manchón serves on the boards for Universal Diagnostics and Unicoins as well. She holds an MSc. in Cognitive Science and Natural Language and a PhD in Computational Linguistics on Intelligent Dialog Systems.

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