EF Alumni

Raphael Scheps

CEO, Converge

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Construction, Data Science, Manufacturing, Physics, Wireless Technology

Location:

London

Cohort:

Raphael Scheps is a Cambridge trained theoretical physicist, with experience in large-scale data analytics at Mellanox and the Weizmann institute.

Company:

Converge

Cutting-edge wireless sensors to help construction companies stay on programme

Andrius Sutas

CEO, Simple Construction Software

Co-founder & CEO of AimBrain (B2B deep-tech security, acquired), author of The Founder Handbook

Stuart Johnson

CTO, Simple Construction Software

Y Combinator startup employee #1, co-founded Wutzu (left, acquired), MIT Battlecode 2019 finalist

Ivo Tedbury

Expert in distributed robots and computation for building construction

Gong Yiwei

Co-founder, VRcollab

Brings experience in network and distributed systems

Gideon Farrell

Astrophysicist with software experience

Mo Shana’a

Experience improving productivity in construction, implemented digital transformation

Alan Mosca

Researched deep learning theory and optimisation methods, previously worked in quantitative finance

Dev Amratia

Led national review on AI, ex-project manager

Jameel Marafie

CEO, Headlight AI

Worked in business development, financial management and R&D consulting

Brittany Harris

Experienced civil engineer, recognised thought leader in building sustainable futures

Jade Cohen

Environmental advisor, managed environmental impact on Crossrail

Leopold Spenner

MSc Industrial Engineering, expert in cement and concrete industries

Robert Meyer

PhD in Machine Learning

Arthur Sousa

Repeat founder with 10+ years in B2C Growth, Product & Engineering for global tech companies.

Pr Andreas Horn

World class professor at Harvard University specialised in Deep Brain Stimulation & medical imaging.

Konstantin Häfner

Awarded lawyer with a strong VC/regulatory background. Former legal advisor at N26.

Laure de La Tour

EDHEC Graduate in Data Analytics. Former consultant at Ekimetrics. Second time startup founder.

Vassily Carantino

CEO, CarbonFarm

Ex-McKinsey consultant. Focus on sustainability & carbon markets. Columbia Business School grad.

Dilip Rajeswari

Led the R&D team, working at the intersection of Machine Learning, Neuroscience and Psychiatry.

Bali Lee

PhD in Neuroscience. Five years establishing preclinical, translational and clinical collaborations.

Chris Gudde

Self-taught data scientist & full stack developer. Led 1000+ teams in risk, compliance & operations.

Kit Burgess

Founding-team engineer at US$100M Startup. Cambridge Mathematician.

Stefan Bostock

CTO, Kanjo Health

Expert in digital biomarkers, machine learning & computer vision. Merck Innovation award winner.

Udaya Kumar

Software engineer and a second time founder with experience in tech and operations.

Eswar Prasanth Nagasamudram

MBA from ISB. 8 years of experience building & scaling products at Goldman Sachs, Mckinsey & Rupeek.

Aakarsh Yadav

2x Masters from IIT Kharagpur. Full stack developer. Built social media & platform-based products.

Agrim Singh

CS graduate, SUTD Singapore, Former web3 founder, worked with Pitbull.

Vibhor Saran

Ex VP - Data Science Team at Dozee, with 3 patents on applied Digital Signal Processing.

Samarth Shyam

3rd time founder, investor. Secured deals with large airlines and telco's in MENA and Europe.

Kevin Yee

CTO, BetterData

BEng in AI. Ex-IBM. Unlocked phones with fake human fingerprints. Winner of Ideasinc 2017.

Admond Lee

Physicist turned full-stack data scientist.

Burhan Ul Tayyab

AI Researcher with Global Awards.

Keshev Kulkarni

Created pricing engine for world's largest foodservice company; generated $52M+ incremental revenue

Kushagra Manglik

Has experience building APIs and AI models for multiple large scale companies.

Alexandre Bonnet

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

Sam Daviau

Co-founder, UpBeing

SaaS tech and community leader with proven success in Operations, Partnerships and Product

Sean Kortschot

Co-founder, UpBeing

ML & Human Factors engineer advancing cutting edge research in behavioural-based emotion detection

Raghav Toshniwal

Extensive experience in data science and e-commerce analytics

Sivam Pillai

PhD from NUS, previously founded factory analytics startup and worked as data scientist at Siemens

Christoph Sträter

PhD in Theoretical Physics with expertise in deep learning and software development

Ceyhun Derinbogaz

CTO, Text Cortex AI

Led a data engineering team at trivago, patents in energy industry and publications in deep learning

Wilmer Daza

Full-stack software & machine learning engineer with experience in the software development industry

Hector de Wazières

Former data scientist and strategy consultant with multiple entrepreneurial experiences

Pulkit Agarwal

Math nerd, Stanford GSB Alum and Ex-Palantir, Top of class at Georgia Tech at the age of 20

Lorenzo Ampil

CTO, Hawksight.co

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

Amir Nejadmalayeri

PhD in Electrical Engineering, specialising in optics and photonics

Majdi Rabia

CTO, Fairphonic

Two Master's in Applied Probability and Statistics

Abhinav Yadav

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

PhD in computational neuroscience, st experience in dealing with big-data

Narasimha Suda

Co-founder, Wavel.AI

Master's in Physics and Mathematics, experience with data ranging from voice, images, and text

Mikhail Dubov

CEO, Chattermill

Full-stack developer with background in data analytics

Aashish Mehta

CEO, TransferFi

Serial innovator, IoT and big analogue data expert

Leo Anthias

Former founder solving issues he encountered as a CTO

Avni Agrawal

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

Gabriel Lau

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

Nikos Kazazakis

Researched Deterministic Global Optimization at Imperial College London

Richard Vibert

Data scientist, sits on the committee of the Data Protection Forum

Nirmal AK

CTO, Merkle Science

Fraud data scientist

Boris Ploix

Degree in Applied Mathematics, experience in the transport industry

Shubhankar Srivastava

Specialist in AI and machine learning

Herve Roussel

Experience building software in the US, mentor for IBM AI XPRIZE

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Will Moss

Data scientist and Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology graduate

Ashish Kumar

Co-founder, Konigle

PhD in Machine Learning, developed framework for pattern detection from unstructured data

Jatin Khosla

Experience architecting, building and scaling adoption of data driven digital products

Ravinder Bhadhal

Expertise in delivering world-class data infrastructure and commercial experience

Sam Shannon

Ex-quantitative trader, graduate in Particle Physics

Long Hoang

Computer scientist, built machine learning models that analyse millions of transactions

Chris Choy

CTO, Carnot Innovations

Data scientist and full stack developer, PhD in Statistics

Himanshu Upreti

CTO, AI Palette

Extensive experience in big data analytics and machine learning

Nisarg Shah

Spearheaded software automation and big data projects, launched a social learning platform

David Wood

Data scientist, PhD in Computational Neuroscience

Alec Mocatta

Founder, Hadean

Rethinking and simplifying big data complexity, previously built indoor positioning platform

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

Jordan Noble

Statistical machine learning expert focused on implementing real-time solutions at scale

Jack Hogan

Privacy enthusiast and data scientist, specialised in multi-source data fusion

Wladimir Nikoluk

CEO, Atlas Metrics

Entrepreneur at the intersection of impact and data

Alex Tupper

Experienced full-stack engineer, data engineer and product specialist

Tanrajbir Singh Takher

Former Data Scientist with a Master's in machine learning from UCL

Atual Yadav

FCull-stack engineer with experience in building and scaling world-class SaaS products

Abhimanyu Godara

Experience across consulting, VC and startups, built multiple products

Jose Sampedro Mazon

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

Dr Vishvak Kannan

CTO, Surge Analytics

PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Ollie Graham

CEO, Surge Analytics

Experience in financial services and software engineering

Shivani Shah

PhD from French Nuclear Research Institute CEA, applied Machine Learning to large datasets

Prateek Gaur

Extensive background in computer science and machine learning, ex-Head of Data

Andrea Mambrini

Award winning data scientist, developed bio-inspired algorithms for European Space Agency

Nyasha Japondo

Electronic and hardware engineer, expert in designing electronic sensor devices

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Favour Nyikosa

Specialist in datamining and interpretable models

Jon Forester

Built data and analytics products in startups and finance sector

Tom Walker

Worked at the cutting-edge of mathematical optimisation and on production machine learning

Tom Barber

Experience at the intersection of fashion and technology

Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

William Nash

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

Guglielmo Montone

Specialist in deep and transfer learning

David Meyer

Former LEK consultant, experience in fast-growing mobility startups

Juan Barragan

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

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Renan Pereira

Data scientist, experience developing and managing scalable machine learning models

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

Dennis Xenos

Expert in optimisation and data analytics for industrial applications.

Abhishek Anand

Co-Founder, Marlin AI

Award-winning data science with experience in product development and cybersecurity

Satyakama Paul

CTO, BrainEnTech Neuroscience

Data scientist with PhD and postdoc in AI and experience in Machine Learning

Hardik Thakkar

Built complex systems as a software engineer, experienced in Data Science and managing large teams

Shubham Kaushal

Seasoned software engineer, first engineer at Chaldal

Saptarshi Nath

Led quant studies for Fortune 100 companies

Rubal Chib

Electronics engineer, previously Havells and IOTA

Shrishti Batra

PhD in Computational Biology & Chemical Ecology, previously NCBS, Max Planck Institute

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Aron Pettersson

Data science specialist, degree in Physics and Master's in Molecular Biology

David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Guillaume Rivals

Computer science and AI engineer, passionate about using data to fight climate change.

Jakub Stojek

CEO, Orbital Matter

Founder of the 22nd fastest growing company in Europe @ FT 1000. Forbes 30 Under 30 Finalist.

Pierre Yser

Double expert in simulation and Deep Learning, PhD in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Nicolas Rasamimanana

Entrepreneur with tech background, PhD in Machine Learning

Shehroz I. Hussain

Creative leader with first-principles approach. Ex-Tesla, SpaceX, & Kepler Communications.

Reza Larimi

Background in design, control systems & automation. Multiple international patents & publications

Sivam Pillai

PhD from NUS, previously founded factory analytics startup and worked as data scientist at Siemens

Ilan Palacci

Engineer, former CPO of AI startup

Jack Reid

CEO, Unicorn Biotechnologies

Trained chemist and philosopher, experience developing and commercializing new technologies

Martin Postel

Expert in automation and optimisation for supply and production, with a PhD in AI in Manufacturing

Rishita Changede

CEO, TeOra.Life

Award-winning scientist, experience in genetic engineering, biosensors and biophysics

Jedd Cheong Jia Hao

Co-founder, Qandela

PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, expert in medical imaging

Pragjyoti Samal

MBA-software engineer, experience in sales and business development in the fragrance industry

Avishek Kumar

Expert in renewable technologies with product design and manufacturing experience

Sankar Seramani

CEO, Connectify.AI

Machine learning expert and telecommunications engineer

Audrey Gayman

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, TOffeeAM

PhD in Additive Manufacturing, expertise in robust analysis

Marco Pietropaoli

PhD in Fluid Dynamics, expertise in AI software for Additive Manufacturing.

Francesco Montomoli

PhD in Energy Engineering, Imperial College reader and REng Enterprise Fellow.

Aashish Mehta

CEO, TransferFi

Serial innovator, IoT and big analogue data expert

Ulf Bissbort

CTO, Synchronous

PhD in Theoretical Physics, experience in simulation and machine learning

Jeffrey Lee

CEO, Synchronous

Experience working at SaaS startups

Avni Agrawal

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

Akanksha Jagwani

Mechanical engineer, led digital product design and management teams

Gideon Farrell

Astrophysicist with software experience

Abhishek Agrawal

Experience in high precision manufacturing sector

Long Hoang

Computer scientist, built machine learning models that analyse millions of transactions

Surbhi Krishna Singh

Award-winning engineer, experience in manufacturing and industrial automation

Matthew Morrison

MSc in Computer Science, experience in financial services

Mo Shana’a

Experience improving productivity in construction, implemented digital transformation

Bashir Beikzadeh

CTO, Metis Labs

Experienced software engineer with a background in electrical and electronic engineering

Alex Appelbe

CEO, Metis Labs

Mechanical engineer, experienced in factory operations and new product development

Wilfried Jahn

Leading innovator in curved sensor manufacturing, PhD in electro-optical system design

Michael Bailly

Former strategy consultant and industrial project director

Anterpreet Singh

CEO, Subconscious Compute

Proven expertise scaling tech ventures, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus

Kunal Sandeep

Co-founder, Polymerize

Industry experience in product development and management

Dr Abhijit Salvekar

Co-founder, Polymerize

Polymer scientist with expertise in Process-Structure-Property Relationships and DoE.

Lucas Lopez

CTO, Volatile AI

Award winning digital smell researcher, built cutting-edge artificial neural networks

Adomas Malaiska

Co-founder, Volatile AI

Former strategy consultant and investor, built novel AI algorithms

CJ Cassar

PhD with a focus on building augmented and virtual reality tools for engineers

Chris Whitehead

Former systems engineer and technology specialist, experience in B2B sales

Christos Ellinas

CTO, Nodes and Links

Award-winning researched in Complex Systems

Greg Lawton

CEO, Nodes & Links

Astrophysicist with experience managing defence programmes and in BAE systems

Yassir Al-Refaie

MSc in IC Design, youngest department head in former company's history

Tawfiq Nasr Allah

Developed breakthrough methods for converting CO2 into chemicals

Benoit Illy

Award-winning PhD in Nanotechnology, scaled projects from the lab to industrial success

Dennis Xenos

Expert in optimisation and data analytics for industrial applications.

Jamie Potter

Mathematics and statistics expert

Vasileios Katranidis

PhD in Digital Manufacturing, developed first predictive software tool for thermal spray coatings

Nagmanjunath Shivakumar

CEO, PakkaProfile

Deep understanding of talent acquisition

Dr. Mohammad H. D.A. Farahani

Entrepreneurial scientist, PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Pramod Ghadge

CEO, Unbox Robotics

Master's in Industrial & Systems Engineering from NUS

Shahid Memon

CTO, Unbox Robotics

MSc in Autonomous Robotics Engineering, experienced in AI and robotics

Leopold Spenner

MSc Industrial Engineering, expert in cement and concrete industries

Robert Meyer

PhD in Machine Learning

Theo Saville

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

Chris Emery

Engineer programming since age 12, expert in 3D graphics and high-performance computing