Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer based in London offering classes in the United Kingdom and Europe. Gabrielle has over 18 years experience building enterprise software and web products at global companies and is a founder of the Scrum Training Institute, with Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum, Pete Deemer and Jens Ostergaard.

Gabrielle works with clients from diverse industries including banking, telecommunications, and internet. Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which encompassed more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia.  She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com), the most widely read introductory guide to Scrum available and became the 12th Certified Scrum Trainer in the world, being personally certified by Ken Schwaber. Gabrielle provides training and coaching in many Agile and Lean methodologies.