EF Alumni

Sam Daviau

Co-founder, UpBeing

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Interests / background:

Data Science, Enterprise Solutions, Finance

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Toronto

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Sam is a full-stack business professional in SaaS tech – he’s worked across sales, partnerships, product and operations. He’s been one of the first 5 employees at Statflo, culminating in his role on the executive team as the VP of Operations. He scaled it through three rounds of institutional funding, from 5 to 95 people. On the side, he’s co-founded a leading youth charity, Lay-Up Youth Basketball, is the chair of the Alumni Council for Venture For Canada, and is on the board at the Muskoka Lakes Association.

Company:

UpBeing

Measuring emotion using behavioural data to improve the human experience

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

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

Raphael Scheps

Trained theoretical physicist, with experience in large-scale data analytics

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.

Peter Little

CTO, StartScreen

Software Engineering Graduate. Led teams at scale-ups and specialised in augmenting 3rd party UIs.

Phil Protomanni

CEO, Agota Health

Tech sales leader turned healthcare executive. Led COVID vaccination and testing team across Canada.

Alex Wilton

Experienced technologist and entrepreneur.

Chloe Burles

Experienced CEO and British record holder.

Maximilian Rolf

Former tech investment banker, advised leading B2B SaaS companies.

Leon Wisskirchen

WHU graduate. Serial founder and former Head of Operations at SumUp US. Full-stack web developer.

Duncan Ryan

Experienced developer in regulated environments, and integrating unstructured, disparate data.

Chris Gudde

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

Edward Alun-Jones

3x founder experienced in building, scaling B2B SaaS businesses & streamlining compliance workflows.

Daniel Parekh-Hill

3x founder. 5 years building, scaling and advising companies from MVP to IPO.

Rumessa Raja

CEO, Celerity Labs

Designed & scaled e-commerce platforms leading B2B companies in advanced industries (ex-McKinsey).

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.

Frederick Sia

Serial entrepreneur with MSc in Investment Management.

Ulysse Mizrahi

Serial early-start-upper, passionate about all things productivity

Raffaele Colella

2x passionate founder. Google Acquihired. MIT alum

Keshev Kulkarni

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

Ife Ishola

CEO, Speech Titan

Experienced Ops and Product Leader; ex-Glassdoor PM; ex McKinsey

Milton Calderon Donefer

Founded & scaled restaurant service organization across 10+ Canadian cities. Loran Scholar @ McGill

Sarthak Shrivastava

Has experience in logistics and building multiple business verticals at Indian startups.

Jay Bullen

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

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

Robert Van Den Bergh

Prev CEO & Founder @ VC backed robotics and AI company. Expert in growth marketing and partnerships.

Cameron Whitehead

Previously Senior Engineer at Series A tech company. Expert in building scalable consumer solutions.

Ben Allen

Experienced CTO; built & scaled products from 0-500k+ users for multiple venture-backed businesses

Ben Freeman

Experienced founder, built Tessian from 5-200+ people & $0-20m+ ARR, raising $130m (Sequoia, Accel)

Patrick Olden

Product-driven, technical CEO

Holger Nießner

Full-stack developer with experience leading engineering teams, MSc in Space Science and Technology

Bijan Farsijani

2x founder, hands-on experience with product and sales, Masters from Copenhagen Business School

Nicolas Carmont

CTO, Connect Earth

Experience creating sustainability startups with background in AI and software engineering

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

Michele Riccardo Esposito

Product-thinker & part-time coder

Jonathan Anderson

Experience in strategy and operations, lover of all things SaaS

Ehsan Ghoreishi

PhD in AI, built content classification techniques for major telcos

Danica Damljanovic

CEO, Sentient Machines

PhD in AI and Natural Language Processing, worked in startups analysing natural language

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su

Co-founder, PolyAI

Award-winning reinforcement learning expert, previously Facebook AI Research

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen

Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

Nikola Mrkšić

PhD in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, first hire at VocalIQ

Rob Palumbo

Growth marketing leader who scaled 3x B2C companies from Seed to Series A/B+ and millions in revenue

Sean Billings

Cloud + ML engineer going heads down on production-grade ML systems with OutPoint, Cambridge, Amazon

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

Dmitry Isupov

Co-founder, Chattermill

Degree in Mathematics, background in quantitative marketing

Siddhartha Gunti

Co-founder, Adaface

Researched in context based machine translation, ex-Quant

Deepti Chopra

Co-founder, Adaface

Engineer, former researcher at Caltech

Arnor Davidsson

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

Majed Chaaraoui

Experience in consulting and investment banking

Alex Kosenkov

Experience in high performance computing

Lottie Liebling

Experience in marketplace business development teams

Hardesh Singh

Qualified solicitor with experience in risk and compliance

Jaron Collis

Co-founder, Plural AI

PhD in AI, experience building natural language and knowledge-based systems

Camille Rougié

Previously worked in finance, launched new products for FinTech startup

Raphael Holca-Lamarre

PhD at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning

Tuhin Chakraborty

Software engineer, previously led engineering teams

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

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

Gaetano Checinski

CEO, LoopPerfect

Software architect, experience creating high performance solutions for enterprise

Akshay Gugnani

CTO, Expertia AI

AI and NLP researcher, developed the current state-of-the-art job recommender & hiring system

Kanishk Shukla

CEO, Expertia AI

Proven expertise in sales, strategy and people

Shalabh Singh

Expert generalist with Machine Learning background

Puneet Lamba

Experienced in B2B business development and sales, consulted for India's top corporates and startups

Abhimanyu Godara

Experience across consulting, VC and startups, built multiple products

Dr Siddhartha

Expertise in multiple machine learning domains, in particular Natural Language Processing

Jose Sampedro Mazon

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

Nick Shaw

CTO, Spotted Zebra

Chartered occupational psychologist and thought leader in the assessment industry

Ian Monk

CEO, Spotted Zebra

Ex-consultant and exited founder

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

Nicolas Le Borgne

CEO, Thermosphr

Experience in startups, Master's in Economic Law from Sciences Po

Kannan Reghu

Experienced in product and tech, ex-VP of Engineering at Grover

Amita Goyal

Led large teams globally, worked with Fortune 50 CEOs on B2B sales, strategy and ecommerce

Valerio Volpati

PhD in Statistical Physics and experience in applied interdisciplinary research

Albert Reynaud

Ex-partnerships at Google, graduate from ESCP Europe Business school.

Guenther Eisinger

Co-founder (Operations), Ominpresent

Served in the Austrian Special Forces, ran his own international business

Matthew Wilson

Co-founder (Commercial), Omnipresent

Experienced entrepreneur and technologist

Chris Butcher

Engineer, experience scaling business to serve SMEs

Sho Sugihara

Experience working in NGOs on economic inclusion and consultancy

Nagmanjunath Shivakumar

CEO, PakkaProfile

Deep understanding of talent acquisition

Ankit Parashar

Engineer, built SAAS-based analytics product for hardware

Aaron Lim

Expertise in high-end client engagement, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate

Sunny Saurabh

CEO, Interviewer.AI

Skilled in ideation, sales strategy and product vision

Boon Khai Lim

CTO, Interviewer.AI

Built large-scale web applications, passionate about disruptive tech

Abdelhadi Azzouni

Conducted innovative research applying machine learning to optimise large scale computer networks

Hardik Thakkar

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

Zehan Wang

CTO, Magic Pony Technologiy

Co-founder of Magic Pony, built through EF & exited to Twitter for $150M.

Rob Bishop

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Investor & co-founder of Magic Pony, built through EF & exited to Twitter for US$150M

Kate Ma

COO, Neptune Robotics

Experience software engineer with an MSc in Financial Statistics from London School of Economics.

Chloe Burles

Experienced CEO and British record holder.

Dominik Pederzani

Second-time founder, ex-McKinsey, Wharton MBA, COO of publicly-listed fintech.

Maximilian Rolf

Former tech investment banker, advised leading B2B SaaS companies.

Leon Wisskirchen

WHU graduate. Serial founder and former Head of Operations at SumUp US. Full-stack web developer.

Konstantin Häfner

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

Moritz Gessl

WHU graduate, co-founded crypto start-up and built companies for an incubator, in crypto since 2017.

Kevin Bonte

Experienced Engineer in B2B payments.

Thomas Claassen

Experienced in finance and payments.

Omar Dekkiche

Engineer. Former M&A banker. Second time deep tech startup founder.

Ben Stemper

CEO, Grey Swan Finance

Former Options Quant at Citadel. PhD in Options Pricing. Oxford Mathematics MSc.

Alex Hooper

Self-taught software engineer, previously building and leading engineering teams at 11:FS.

Daniel Parekh-Hill

3x founder. 5 years building, scaling and advising companies from MVP to IPO.

Louis Lammerting

CTO, SoLo Protocol

Founded Math X (40k users). Ex-Consultant at Strategy & University of Chicago Blockchain Engineer.

Rohan Tangri

CEO, Compass Labs

AI @ JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Statistical Machine Learning PhD @ Imperial College London.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Rumessa Raja

CEO, Celerity Labs

Designed & scaled e-commerce platforms leading B2B companies in advanced industries (ex-McKinsey).

Eswar Prasanth Nagasamudram

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

Dhawal Patel

Built Loan Origination & Management Systems for Capital Float & Funding Societies. Ex-CTO at Aureal.

Gaurav Agarwal

Second time entrepreneur. Previously built credit underwriting engines for Capital Float and bill pa

Frederick Sia

Serial entrepreneur with MSc in Investment Management.

Phoebe Chibuzo Hugh

Ex-underwriter and project manager at Aviva

Karam El Assaad

Strong expertise leading enterprise and SME sales across MEA region

Rishabh Varshney

Building climate solutions since 2012. CEO @ buywithimpact (acq), Product/Design @ RBC, Wrapbook

Anna Wang

Experienced investor in renewable & infrastructure projects. Helped companies with energy transition

Jennifer Wang

CEO, Summations

Second time founder with experience in sales and product management

Katrin Shechtman

CTO, Trust Chain

Tech entrepreneur with 17+ yrs. Led her own consultancy company with FinTech & government clients

Giancarlo De Lio

CEO, Trust Chain

Seasoned entrepreneur with 20+ yrs including co-founding VitalHub (IPO) and multiple exists

Charles Ashby-Lepore

CTO, Metacommerce

Senior Software Developer, with expertise in Machine Learning. Ex Co-Founder, Koïos Intelligence.

Sudipta Biswas

Expert in AI, machine learning, deep learning and product development.

Sanskar Jayaswal

Supported startups across business & growth functions in 0-1 stage, pivotal role in FinTech domains

Pranav Nair

Hands-on experience in Blockchain 2.0, Solidity & Smart Contracts, built banking products

Kushagra Manglik

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

Srinivas Sarkar

Has experience in consulting large enterprises and B2C startups in India.

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

Ali Khachlouf

CEO, SquareMind

Experience in private equity and consulting, advised on strategy and growth

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

A cambridge graduate and serial founder, competent in software engineering, specialising in AI & ML.

Parit Patel

Previous life as an investment banker, data nerd and web3 enthusiast.

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

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