EF Alumni

Ali Khachlouf

CEO, SquareMind

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Finance, Healthcare and Medicine

Location:

Paris

Cohort:

Ali started first in private equity, then as a fast-track consultant at Oliver Wyman in EU/Asia where he advised C-level boards on strategy and growth matters, including in healthcare. He cofounded an executive search startup that counts 40+ large companies as clients. He holds a MSc from Centrale Paris.

Company:

SQUAREMIND

Developing a disruptive solution for oncology purposes, leveraging breakthrough software technologies

Phoebe Chibuzo Hugh

Ex-underwriter and project manager at Aviva

Karam El Assaad

Strong expertise leading enterprise and SME sales across MEA region

Dr. Desiree-Jessica Pely

CTO, MetaWealth

Financial Economist trained at LMU Munich, Yale, & University of Miami, Computer Science background

Florian Drummen

CEO, MetaWealth

Built and scaled ventures at BCG Digital Ventures and FinTech Unicorn SumUp, WHU Graduate

Oliver Weiss

Serial founder. Developed ISO standard. Public Health speaker. CBS graduate

Bisola Asolo

Previously exited web3 founder. Full-stack developer with a finance background, ex J.P. Morgan.

James Branigan

Cambridge graduate. Degrees in Physics, Applied Mathematics, and AI. Former top B2C salesman

Ojas Shukla

Second time founder. University of Singapore dropout. Successfully exited first company at age 19

Alexandre Bonnet

MSc in Theoretical Physics, built data platforms behind largest FinTech & InsurTech startups in UK

Cillian Bourke

2nd time founder, six years designing and distributing novel insurance products.

Cyrille Pastour

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-BCG. Master’s in Finance from HEC Paris.

Alesis Novik

Exited co-founder and CTO of AimBrain, formerly CERN and E Capital

Andrius Sutas

Exited co-founder and CEO of AimBrain, graduated top of class in Computer Science and Electronics

Srivar Harlalka

MSc in Finance and Strategy, founded 3 consumer facing startups

Srinidhi Moodalagiri

Computer scientist, built risk models for multi-billion dollar consumer portfolios

Alexandros Pantalis

Tech entrepreneur, built & managed successful startups in e-commerce, software development & fintech

Artur Begyan

Mathematical financial developer and economist, including working as a Quant at Bank of America

Simon Jones

Strong financial technology startup background; prior founder, operator and investor

Alex Lempka

CEO, Connect Earth

Experience founding and scaling businesses, worked in FinTech his entire career

Kartik Arora

Full-stack developer and engineering manager across fast-growing startups

Apoorv Singh

Experience scaling B2B SaaS sales across three continents

Lorenzo Ampil

CTO, Hawksight.co

Data scientist, built financial AI software for global enterprises and asset management firms

Bradian Muliadi

CEO, Hawksight.co

Built and sold Indonesia's largest creator platform, scaled leading social SaaS startup

Priya Surya

MPA/ID in International Development, experience in growth and building international partnerships

Michael Curtis

PhD simulating black holes, building web apps since age 12

Vivek Madlani

Experience in finance, including trading and product distribution and design

David Au

Co-founder, MechaniX

MSc in Financial Mathematics, experience applying machine learning for trading strategies

Thomas Yue

Co-founder, MechaniX

PhD in Computational Physics, experience in algorithmic trading

Majdi Rabia

CTO, Fairphonic

Two Master's in Applied Probability and Statistics

Vishvesh Suriyanarayanan

Software engineer turned product manager

Dylan Tan

Experience in the online travel industry, built commercial partnerships

Simon Spurrier

Engineer and product manager, built financial optimisation algorithms

Siddhartha Gunti

Co-founder, Adaface

Researched in context based machine translation, ex-Quant

Andre Woons

Founded peer-to-peer payment application, led development team

Mandeep Gill

PhD focused on distributed systems engineering, experience in startups and finance

Avni Agrawal

Computer science engineer, experience in big data analytics and machine learning

Gustavo Silva

CTO, Rosecut Technologies

Machine learning specialist

Qiaojia Li

CEO, Rosecut Technologies

Record-breaking private bank advisor

Vadim Toader

CEO, Proportunity

Valuation and forecasting experience, degree in Engineering, Economics and Management

Gabriel Lau

PhD in molecular physics, experience in numerical methods and local optimization techniques

Mriganka Pattnaik

CEO, Merkle Science

Experience from across investment banking and technology

Arnor Davidsson

Experienced in software engineering, product management and UX, MSc in Computer Science

Majed Chaaraoui

Experience in consulting and investment banking

Chi Fung Lok

CTO, Caelus Technologies

Design experience in analog, mixed-signal and RF architectures and circuits

Camille Rougié

Previously worked in finance, launched new products for FinTech startup

Ravinder Bhadhal

Expertise in delivering world-class data infrastructure and commercial experience

Sam Shannon

Ex-quantitative trader, graduate in Particle Physics

Jatin Shah

Expert in distributed systems with a PhD in Computer Science

Xavier Wilders

Graduated top of his year in his Master's in Computer Science

James Williams

CEO, Beyond Labs

Experience in finance, built high performance trading systems

Ran Fan

CTO, ArrayStream

Experience in building real-time automated trading systems for companies

Yu Zheng

CEO, ArrayStream

PhD in Quantitative Finance, expert in machine learning, option pricing and portfolio construction

Matthew Morrison

MSc in Computer Science, experience in financial services

Entela Benz

Expertise in climate risk data for finance

Haroon Hassan

CEO, Sense Street

Experience working on bond trading desks in Europe and the US as a trader and research analyst

David Hunter

CEO, Optimal Labs

Studied aeronautical engineering and computer science, ex-pilot and quantitative strategist

Matt Schofield

CTO, Credit Kudos

Computer scientist, former CTO and data science team lead

Freddy Kelly

CEO, Credit Kudos

Computer scientist and engineer, was responsible for deployment of Bitnami's cloud launchpad

Helene Guillaume

Ex-hedge fund quant, MSc in financial risks and ultra athlete

Efe Surekli

Previously co-founded a VC-backed AI startup. Early engineer at Tractable. Postgrad in Cambridge

Parit Patel

Experience in Financial Services, FinTech & M&A. Founding Team & CFO of Drover. ACA.

Patrick de Castro Neuhaus

Experienced developer and tech consultant for financial services companies

Chris Zemina

Experienced in FinTech investments

Tristan Garrec

Deep expertise in computational market design

Victor Moreau

Ex-strategy consultant with expertise in financial services, engineering degree from CentraleSupélec

Sigurjon Isaksson

Strong interest and background in Machine Learning and Financial Engineering

Youssef Darwich

Experience in the financial sector, passionate about opening up financial wisdom & education to all

Abdel Wahab Turkmani

2x founder building businesses that positively impact the world

Nnaemeka Obodoekwe

Built software architecture across Africa’s biggest banks and led machine learning teams

Sanjeev Jeyakumar

Emerging markets credit trader with leadership experience across marketplace and FinTech startups

Shourya Lala

Computer science engineer and an accomplished application developer

Manish Maryada

Domain expertise in financial operations, strategy and product

Jose Sampedro Mazon

Ex-corporate lawyer, experience in strategy & ops transformations and business development

Ollie Graham

CEO, Surge Analytics

Experience in financial services and software engineering

Favour Nyikosa

Specialist in datamining and interpretable models

Jon Forester

Built data and analytics products in startups and finance sector

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Hugo Pascail

CTO, Invest Insight

PhD in Quantitative Finance, experience building AI models and econometric algorithms

Jean-Régis de Vauplane

CEO, Invest Insight

Worked on AI and web projects as an Agile Coach and Product Manager

Juan Barragan

Experienced in software development with work on pattern recognition in finance and advertising

Hamza El Khalloufi

CTO, DeltaBlock

PhD in liquidity modelling, research fellow in Digital Assets

Maria Silvia Scetta

CEO, Deltablock

Ex-trader and portfolio manager, financial engineer

Sara Sebti

Experienced as a risk manager within financial institutions

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Barnaby Hussey-Yeo

Data scientist with interests in finance and machine learning

Tarik Dadi

Led data science projects around the world, Master's Degree in Machine Learning

Hadrien De March

Ex-quantative analyst, PhD in optimisation

Rafie Faruq

Lifelong programmer with MSc in Machine Learning, previously a derivatives trader

Sho Sugihara

Experience working in NGOs on economic inclusion and consultancy

Grant Aarons

CEO, FabricNano

PhD in Economics, worked in systems engineering and mathematical modelling

Ankit Parashar

Engineer, built SAAS-based analytics product for hardware

Josh Kettlewell

Expert in machine learning, quantum computing and cryptocurrency

Ben Stein

Co-founder, Staple

Chartered accountant and full stack developer

Sudeept Sinha

Ex-quantative trader, developer price prediction algorithms

Vincent Audoire

Early employee at N26, strong understanding of how users work

Rob Schumacher

CEO, Feather Insurance

PhD in Insurance Mathematics

John Moura

CEO, ElementZero Biolabs

Led product development, sales, and operations in global companies

Sachin Chiramel

CEO, real analytics

Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Neel Popat

Finance and investment professional, began coding as a child

Saikrishnan Ranganathan

CEO, Sensorflow

Built energy solutions across multiple industries, previously Goldman Sachs

Rathin Shah

Worked in investment banking and management at JP Morgan Chase, graduate of BITS Pilani

Gaurav Arora

Software engineer, previously Netflix and Ixigo

Jevan Nagarajah

CEO, Better Dairy

Experienced across banking and technology

Stacy-Ann Sinclair

Developer, previously worked in tier one investment banks

Andrew Jajack

2x YC founder in diagnostics space with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Dana Mihal Aronovici

CTO, FemXX Health

Expert SW Engineer from ETH Zürich with MedTech experience. Endometriosis patient & advocate

Luise Müller

CEO, FemXX Health

Experienced founder & business leader; focus on building impact B2C platforms, brands & communities

Mahmut Martin Yüksel

Medical Doctor, Harvard Neuroscientist, PhD (c) Neuroengineering at EPFL, 2x CEO & Medical Founder

Mark Caffrey

Applied Physicist, Biomedical & Electrical Engineer, PhD (c) Medical Tech NUI Galway, 2x CTO

Marcus Hott

Developed cardiac ML algorithms at Harvard Medical School & nano-satellites at NASA. TUM graduate

Oliver Weiss

Serial founder. Developed ISO standard. Public Health speaker. CBS graduate

Jay Bullen

Developed new, low-cost methods for water quality monitoring. PhD from Imperial College London

Claire Trant

7+ years in wastewater engineering strategy and innovation, PhD with Rolls-Royce Aerospace

Vaibhav Longani

3rd time founder. Ex-healthcare go to market strategy consultant. Board member with a cancer startup

Madeleine Moscatelli

CTO, EndoGene.Bio

PhD & Post-Doc in Genetics & Epigenetics with extensive stem cell experience ex-Université de Paris

Maria Teresa Perez Zaballos

CEO, EndoGene.Bio

Ex-Merck Fertility Portfolio Expansion Manager. PhD in Medical Devices, & MSc in Biotech Management

Divya Sriram

PhD in cancer biology, expert in innovating the infectious diseases diagnosis with molecular biology

Gabriel Dumy

PhD in acoustophoresis with experience in developing cell growing acoustic devices

Amélie Quilichini

Engineer with experience in managing tech & hardware projects as a strategy consultant

Cristiana Banila

PhD in Molecular Epidemiology, developed cancer screening tool for NHS, Oxford and Princeton grad

Shakiba Kaveh

Developed and sold technologies to the skincare industry, PhD Materials Science from Cambridge

Giovanni Rovere

Developed biomedical wearables, ETH Zurich PhD graduate. Expert in acquiring data from the body

Stefan van der Fluit

Led growth at Facebook and 2018 Dutch national Ironman age group champion

Kit Logan

Founded a product studio at 14, winning awards for activity tracking products loved by 350k people

Charlie Leggate

Experienced founder and commercial strategist, grew a FitTech community from 0-450k

Ayesha Anees

Researcher in AI for Healthcare, worked with leading clinicians to increase healthcare access

Dr. Antareep Sharma

Expertise from across the healthcare sector, PhD in Bionsensors

Jedd Cheong Jia Hao

Co-founder, Qandela

PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, expert in medical imaging

Kishan Kishan

Co-founder, Neurobit

Expert in bioelectronic design and soft condensed matter physics

Amiya Patanaik

Experience studying sleep and cognitive neuroscience. PhD in Computer Engineering

Eoin Hyde

Co-founder Innersight Labs

PhD in Computer Science from University of Oxford

Lorenz Berger

Co-founder, InnersightLabs

PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University

Tanguy Serrat

CTO, SquareMind

MSc in Machine Learning, developed state-of- the-art deep learning systems for medical surgery

Amber Hill

Expertise in medical research and engineering, PhD in Biomedical Neuroscience

Alex Palmer-Walsh

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Ed Cartwright

Paediatric doctor with a PhD in Microbiology & Epidemiology

Micol de Ruvo

CTO, Cogniscent

PhD and postdoc in Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering

Kai Lammel

CEO, Cogniscent

Commercial experience in Marketing, Sales and Consulting

Vivek Sheraton

Degree in Chemical Engineering, developed cancer simulation models for PhD

Caleb Chiu

Expert in consumer applications, developed AI-enabled digital therapeutics

Megan Lam

Held research fellowship at Yale School of Medicine and advisor to HealthTech developments

Rose Haft

Studied Biomedical Optics at some of the world's leading engineering schools

Xavier Millot

Co-founder, Nectar

Computer Science graduate, grew team and technology at Hinge Health

Jurek Kozyra

PhD in DNA Nanotechnology, background in complex AI

Syed Shakeel Ahmed

PhD in Cancer Biology, experience leading collaborative projects with cancer clinics

Joshua Oppenheimer

CEO, Transformative

Emergency medicine doctor

Marek Sirendi

CTO, Transformative

Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Dimitris Athanasiou

CTO, Neurofenix

Master’s in Biomechanics, experience in medical device development and clinical trials

Guillem Singla Buxarrais

CEO, Neurofenix

Prize-winning biomedical engineer

Kaveh Taghipour

PhD in Natural Language Processing, developed information extraction and text classification systems

Aneesh Sathe

PhD in Mechanobiology, developed computer vision systems to identify cancer cells

Jonathan O’Keefe

CEO, Machine Medicine

Doctor, neuroscientist and machine learning engineer

Ewan Munro

CTO, Entropica Labs

Specialist in modelling physical platforms for quantum computing and information processing

Tommaso Federico Demarie

CEO, Entropica Labs

Physicist with experience in the field of quantum computing

Deepanshu Malik

CTO, EndoVision

Experience building deep tech platforms and using computer vision and machine learning on video

Saurabh Jejurikar

CEO, EndoVision

MSc in Mathematics, experienced in building and managing talented tech teams

Ernestas Sirka

Leading researcher in proteomics and clinical test development

Michael Dove

Worked in consulting and business development at top pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations

Laura Douglas

Experience building AI health products, degrees in Machine Learning and Statistics

Quin Wills

Medical doctor with PhD in system genomics, founded Cellular and Systems Genomics department

Jack O’Meara

Biomedical engineer with experience bringing new technologies to market

Jack Weston

PhD researching sequential pattern recognition problems in particle physics using deep learning

Emil Fristed

CEO/CSO, Novoic

Computational neuroscientist, leading for Impact Fellow with the Skoll Centre in Oxford

Sven Mischkewitz

Award-winning software engineer, worked on annotation tools for brain cells

Fouad Al Noor

Master's in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology

Sebastiaan de Vries

Track record of developing intuitive apps and digital interfaces

Ross Harper

PhD in Computational Neuroscience, led on 4 Innovate UK projects

Helene Guillaume

Ex-hedge fund quant, MSc in financial risks and ultra athlete

Evan Kervella

Data scientist with extensive network in the medical industry

Dimitri Labat

PhD in theoretical physics with expertise in superconductivity and its applications

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

2x CTO with a track-record of implementing scalable and disruptive machine learning solutions

Ben Lakey

CEO, Syndi Health

Impact-driven Bioengineer, specialised in Medical Device regulatory navigation and commercialisation

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

Experienced in R&D, applying AI & ML solutions to various real world problems

Aridni Shah

CEO, immunitoAI

Experience in immunoassays, molecular techniques & molecular data analytics

Mona Kab Omir

Specialist in nanomedicine with multidisciplinary research experience in industry and academia

Alex Sheppard

Experience in the diagnostics industry space and successfully scaling medtech startups

Julia Fan Li

CEO, Micrographia Bio

Immunologist and recovering VC

Federico Paoletti

Award-winning computational oncology PhD, previously WHO

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Dr Stefano Goria

Expert in mathematical modelling & multi-modal ML (17 years), PhD in Theoretical Physics, ex-quant

Dr Emilia Molimpakis

Expert in language use as cognitive biomarker (12 years), Neuroscience PhD, Innovation Award Winner

Nick Shaw

CTO, Spotted Zebra

Chartered occupational psychologist and thought leader in the assessment industry

Dr Yousef Amar

PhD in distributed networks and edge computing, avid marathoner

Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

Christian Mellor

Expertise in Biomedical Engineering and medical devises

William Nash

Strong knowledge of IG problems and solutions, experience of working with healthcare systems on data

Jean-Baptiste Morlot

PhD in machine learning applied to genetics, pioneer in deep learning to decode sequencing data

Jonathan Baptista

Experienced in managing international teams with an MSc in complex systems simulation

Renan Pereira

Data scientist, experience developing and managing scalable machine learning models

Dora Sabino

Experience in cancer research, led projects in industry-modelling cancer treatment response

Alice Pelton

CEO, The Lowdown

Built and monetised digital products, passionate about contraceptive healthcare

Manasa Nadipally

Co-founder, Litmus Eye

Expert in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Medical Image Processing

Moses Kakanga

PhD in biochemistry, experienced running clinical trials

Emiliano Lepore

PhD in biomaterials with experience in product innovation and business development

Dornoosh Zonoobi

PhD in AI medical imaging, experience in leading clinical research

Karol Rogowski

CTO, ElementZero Biolabs

PhD in Biochemistry, experienced in RNA/DNA research

Pedro Freire Silva

Expert in low-cost Nuclear Magnetic Resonance solutions, ex-researcher at world-leading institutions

Clemens Tepel

MSc in Sustainable Energies, began his career at McKinsey

Arjun Ramaswami Palaniappan

Electronic expert with industrial PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Shubhita Tripathi

Pathogen expert with PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, designed pathogen identification assays

Rayna Patel

CEO, VineHealth

Doctor and neuroscientist, previously Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Columbia

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

Laina Emmanuel

CEO, Brainsight AI

Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

CTO, Brainsight AI

PhD in AI in Psychiatry from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Rocio Acuna Hidalgo

CTO, Nostos Genomics

Medical doctor with PhD in human genetics, previously Max Planck Institute

Pandu Raharja

Machine learning expert, experienced in developing models for cancer detection

Sadaf Monajemi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milad Mohammadzadeh

PhD in Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

Joanne Kanaan

PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure, research at the frontier of biochemistry and biophysics

Anna Shirinskaya

PhD in bioelectronics from Ecole Polytechnique, expert in bio-sensing devices

Hana Janebdar

Biochemical engineer, previously UCL and Imperial College London

Leighton Turner

Interdisciplinary scientist, PhD in Molecular Genetics

Dr Sripad Devalla

CTO, Origin Health

PhD in clinical AI algorithms for medical imaging and worked with global health systems

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Experience in building companies with specific expertise in the technology industry

Alexandra Boussommier

Biomedical engineer, using AI to tackle infertility

Arun Bhatia

Master's in Computer Science, built deep tech AI products for companies in India and Japan

Ravi Chandra

Serial entrepreneur in healthcare with experience of working with B2C health businesses

Tobias Rijken

Machine learning scientist with a focus on deep learning

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Laurence Bargery

Developer, skilled in producing high-quality usable scalable software in a production environment

Jacob Haddad

Co-founder, accuRx

Experienced in improving healthcare provider efficiency and quality

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Praapti Jayaswal

Molecular and microbiologist combatting anti-microbial resistance

Timothy Bouley

Medical doctor and environmental scientist