EF Alumni

Zeena Qureshi

CEO, Sonantic

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AI, Media and Gaming

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Zeena Qureshi has experience working in tech startups having co-founded two previously, and having worked in a third growth-stage startup. Additionally, she has experience in implementing speech and language therapy with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Sonantic's powerful artificial voice technology in action

Company:

Sonantic

Sonantic has built the world's most expressive and realistic artificial voices

Spotify Newsroom

Spotify to Acquire Sonantic, an AI Voice Platform

13 June, 2022

LD11 alumni Sonantic’s emotional AI voice is a far cry from Alexa

27 July, 2020

Business Insider

Sonantic named among 15 hottest European AI startups in 2020

16 July, 2020

Sonantic is ready to convince listeners that synthetic voices can cry

13 May, 2020

Sonantic scores €2.3M funding to bring ‘human-quality’ artificial voices to games

2 March, 2020

Evening Standard

Companies in the Press

Sonantic – Meet the start-up changing the games industry with human-like AI voices

2 March, 2020

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James Hastwell

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Software engineer specialising in machine learning and optimisation. Ex-Amazon and JPMorgan.

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Machine Learning expert who has built algorithms at Facebook AI Research and Oxford University.

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Expert in machine learning, previously lead data scientist at AI startup

Daan Zeeuwe

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Avik Mukhija

Machine learning scientist & entrepreneur, developed & sold AI solutions to grocery retailers

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Engineer, former CPO of AI startup

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AI engineer & interdisciplinary scientist

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AI researcher with post-doc in interactive and adaptive broadcasting technologies

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Rob Palumbo

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Sean Billings

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Marco Pietropaoli

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Gong Yiwei

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Emergency medicine doctor

Marek Sirendi

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Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Sumukh Avadhani

AI expert, previously Samsung Creativity Lab, Toshiba and Google

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Haoyu Bai

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Mislav Stipetic

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Full-stack engineer, previously led the IoT platform at Infarm

Yazan Al Alami

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Expert in optimised image and text generation

Laura Douglas

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Nick La Rooy

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

Trisha Chatterjee

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Dr Stefano Goria

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Dr Emilia Molimpakis

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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

Hugo Pascail

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

Jean-Régis de Vauplane

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Guglielmo Montone

Specialist in deep and transfer learning

Maëliza Seymour

Experience as an IT project manager at global banks, machine learning graduate

Manasa Nadipally

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Expertise across leadership, AI and software development

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Deep research in AI and automation, experience in product building

Dornoosh Zonoobi

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Boon Khai Lim

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Hardik Thakkar

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Puneet Chhabra

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Experienced in LiDAR, Radar, and Sonar technologies, PhD in Electrical Engineering

Ali Safari

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Benjamin Tang Hao Zhe

Expert in AI and software engineering, youngest ever quant at a top investment bank

Dmitry Vedenypain

PhD in AI and MBA, experience in consultancy and scaling product teams in VC-funded fintech

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

Georgina Kirby

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Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

John Flynn

MSc Sound Computing, film industry

Sachin Chiramel

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Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

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Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Laina Emmanuel

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Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

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

Sasha Haco

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

Hazel Savage

Experienced music industry professional, previously Shazam, Pandora and Universal Music

Aron Pettersson

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

Pandu Raharja

Machine learning expert, experienced in developing models for cancer detection

Alex Dalyac

Ex-Imperial College London, LSE and Rocket Internet, co-founded EF's first Unicorn, Tractable

Razvan Ranca

Computer scientist, previously Cambridge, worked with leading academic in Machine Learning

Sadaf Monajemi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milad Mohammadzadeh

PhD in Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

Karim Benchaaboun

Machine learning engineer, previously Axa and Criteo

Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Maria Meier

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MSc in Software Engineering, previously TU Munich, Brown University and Oracle

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Anshul Gupta

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Engineering degree from NIT, led winning team in P&G Global AI Challenge

Theo Saville

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Chris Emery

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Tomide Adesanmi

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PhD in mathematical algorithms for complex systems from ETH Zurich

Dr Sripad Devalla

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

Jens Thang

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Experience in building companies with specific expertise in the technology industry

Arun Bhatia

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

Carl Robinson

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Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

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Machine learning and AI expert, previously built full-stack applications for industry giants.

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

Dan Swygart

Experienced founder. Consumer addictiveness & networking effects. Worked with Celebrities & Creators

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Agrim Singh

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

Michael Baumgartner

2x founder, extensive experience with sales and product, Master’s from CBS

Reza Zolfaghari

Deep Learning/Computer Vision PhD, expert scientist in video creation

Pamela Carvallo

Machine learning specialist (PhD) & 2nd time technical founder.

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Sean Kortschot

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

Srivar Harlalka

MSc in Finance and Strategy, founded 3 consumer facing startups

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

Mansoor Rahimat Khan

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Engineer combining classical music training and a background in live and recording industry

Siddharth Bhardwaj

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Daan Zeeuwe

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Jan Mundin

Ex-Stanford & WHU, experience building profitable organisations

Andrew Ologunebi

Strong knowledge of design processes and tools, and experience leading fast-growing Saas products

Alistair Thomson

Expert software development skills in building graphically-intense & high-traffic products and games

Rob Minford

Built metric driven, high growth end user products, where focusing on the user has been paramount

Jack Cantillon

Named by Sport for Business in their 30 under 30 as a young leader of the sports industry

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Sharon Reid

Deep experience in the entertainment industry

Davy Smith

AI researcher with post-doc in interactive and adaptive broadcasting technologies

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

Master's in Engineering, experience building and scaling natural language processing products

Jiameng Gao

Engineer, Master's in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Technology

Jesse Shemen

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Rose Haft

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Majdi Rabia

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Two Master's in Applied Probability and Statistics

Tang Heng Yang

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Expertise in music licensing, audio engineering and creative production

Jordan McRae

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Swayam Narain

Award-winning computer scientist and software engineer

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Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

Alice Pelton

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Vasileios Katranidis

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

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha

Engineer, previously IIT, Samsung and Cisco

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MSc Sound Computing, film industry

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Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Hazel Savage

Experienced music industry professional, previously Shazam, Pandora and Universal Music

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

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Henri Mirande

Deep learning expert, graduated from CentraleSupélec aged 20

Ankur Singh

Built and sold products for video companies

Carl Robinson

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Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

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Machine learning and AI expert, previously built full-stack applications for industry giants.