Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist role. We have selected these Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist’s. The list is in no particular order!
Miguel Martinez
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist @ Signal AI
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Signal AI is an artificial intelligence company that transforms the world’s information into accessible, actionable business knowledge. Read more about Signal AI on Crunchbase…
Tim Scarfe
Chief Data Scientist @ BP
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BP delivers heat, light and mobility products and services to people all around the world. Read more about BP on Crunchbase…
Nikolay Manchev
Principal Data Scientist for EMEA @ Domino Data Lab
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Andre Balleyguier
Data Scientist @ DataRobot
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Polina Vasiljeva
Data Scientist @ King.com
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Polina joined King as a graduate after completing her masters degree in applied mathematics and statistics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her programming interest developed during her summer research internship at Stanford University. Polina’s career at King has exposed her to various aspects of data science and data engineering. This includes working as a data scientist on a live game analysing complex player behaviour, and with machine learning for user acquisition. Polina currently works as a data engineer building and maintaining pipelines for processing billions of game events each day. Outside of her work, Polina is a keen yoga enthusiast and speaks four languages fluently.
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Gary Willis
Senior Data Scientist @ Faculty Science
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Gary Willis is a data scientist at ASI Data Science with a diverse background in applying statistical and machine learning techniques to commercial data science problems. Gary holds a PhD in statistical physics; his work included research into Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations of stochastic systems.
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Johan Kestenare
Data Scientist @ Tessian
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Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way. Read more about Tessian on Crunchbase…
Christoforos Anagnostopoulos
Senior Principal Data Scientist @ QuantumBlack
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QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies. Read more about QuantumBlack on Crunchbase…
Harvinder Atwal
Chief Data Scientist @ Moneysupermarket Group
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Moneysupermarket Group is a British price comparison website-based business specialising in financial services. Read more about Moneysupermarket Group on Crunchbase…
Roshini Johri
Senior Data Scientist @ HSBC
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Roshini has a background in AI and electronics from Edinburgh university. She has more than eight years of experience in applying machine learning techniques to design scalable robust solutions in the fields of e-commerce, travel and finance. She has worked with modelling user behaviour, preditive models, recommendation systems, generative adversarial models with deep learning frameworks and is currently working on models in finance to assess risk. She is very interested in understanding how AI techniques can be applied in various industries to make them more efficient and accurate. She is also very passionate about encouraging more women to enter and lead in this field and runs the London chapter for women in machine learning and data science. In her free time she dabbles with creating artwork with neural style transfer and travel photography to show how easily AI can be integrated with day to day activities and enhance our creativity.
Learn more about Roshini Johri on Crunchbase…HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services. Read more about HSBC on Crunchbase…
Gülce Kale MSc
Data Scientist @ EF Education First
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Stan Tyan
Data Scientist @ Yousician
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Stan Tyan is currently a Data Scientist at Yousician. His foray into data science started when he landed a marketing analytics role at Uber and experienced the joy of transforming raw data into problem-solving insights.
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Milly Leadley
Data Scientist @ Ravelin
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Milly is a data scientist at machine learning startup Ravelin, a data science instructor and an all-round tech enthusiast. Her team at Ravelin is responsible for training, deploying and managing fraud-detection models for online merchants including Deliveroo, Justeat and Trainline. As their predictions are instantly acted upon, Milly is passionate about the interpretability and fairness of their models. She believes transparency will be paramount as the tech industry becomes more AI-driven.
Learn more about Milly Leadley on Crunchbase…Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud. Read more about Ravelin on Crunchbase…
Marios Michailidis
Competitive Data Scientist @ H2O.ai
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Marios Michailidis is a Research data scientist at H2O.ai . He holds a Bsc in accounting Finance from the University of Macedonia in Greece and an Msc in Risk Management from the University of Southampton. He has also nearly finished his PhD in machine learning at University College London (UCL) with a focus on ensemble modelling. He has worked in both marketing and credit sectors in the UK Market and has led many analytics’ projects with various themes including: Acquisition, Retention, Recommenders, Uplift, fraud detection, portfolio optimization and more. He is the creator of KazAnova(http://www.kazanovaforanalytics.com/), a freeware GUI for credit scoring and data mining 100% made in Java as well as is the creator of StackNet Meta-Modelling Framework (https://github.com/kaz-Anova/StackNet). In his spare time he loves competing on data science challenges and was ranked 1st out of 500,000 members in the popular Kaggle.com data competition platform. Here (http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/02/10/profiling-top-kagglers-kazanova-new-1-in-the-world/) is a blog about Marios being ranked at the top in Kaggle and sharing his knowledge with tricks and ideas.
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Johnnie Ball
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist @ Fluidly
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Johnnie brings significant experience in the application of quantitative methods and AI to finance. Formerly a trader at a major investment bank he has also spent time as a quantitative advisor at an SME credit hedge fund; built the credit rating system for an energy supplier and is an alumni of the prestigious deep-tech accelerator Entrepreneur First. He holds the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), an MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning with Distinction from UCL and is a member of the European AI Alliance. Johnnie is applying deep expertise in applied AI and finance to deliver a world-class machine learning product.
Learn more about Johnnie Ball on Crunchbase…Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise. Read more about Fluidly on Crunchbase…
Gaia Paolini
Data Scientist @ TIBCO
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Gaia Paolini is a Data Scientist at TIBCO, having previously held roles at Pfizer, IBM, biotech and software companies, academia as well as consulting independently. She is interested in ideas, science, art and algorithms and enjoys the challenge of combining these to generate insight from data.
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Jian Li
Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Team Manager @ Sky UK
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Jian Li is Principal Data Scientist in Sky. He leads a data science team with a main focus on machine learning research for Sky’s content discovery products and services including search and recommendation. His research covers various topics including deep learning, natural language processing, ranking, metadata enrichment and semantic knowledge inference. Before joining Sky, Jian was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he developed the personalised email classification product for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services. This product has been used by 50 million customers globally by the end of 2015. Jian holds a Ph.D in computer vision and experimental psychology from University of Bristol.
Learn more about Jian Li on Crunchbase…Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries. Read more about Sky UK on Crunchbase…
Naomi Beckett
Senior Data Scientist @ SparkBeyond
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Naomi Beckett was an early member of the SparkBeyond team, establishing the SparkBeyond London office in 2016. Naomi is a Senior Data Scientist, applying SparkBeyond’s technology to business challenges across multiple industries. Past solutions include: risk scoring for financial services, predictive maintenance in the resources industry and e-commerce pricing. With a Masters degree in Statistical Science from University College London, Naomi enjoys group exercise, happy hour and blanket forts.
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Justin Washtell-Blaise
Founder & Chief Data Scientist @ SubjectiveSystems
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Adam Grzywaczewski
Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist @ NVIDIA
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Adam Grzywaczewski is a deep learning solution architect at NVIDIA, where his primary responsibility is to support a wide range of customers in delivery of their deep learning solutions. Adam is an applied research scientist specialising in machine learning with a background in deep learning and system architecture. Previously, he was responsible for building up the UK government’s machine-learning capabilities while at Capgemini and worked in the Jaguar Land Rover Research Centre, where he was responsible for a variety of internal and external projects and contributed to the self-learning car portfolio.
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Mahbub Gani
Lead Data Scientist @ Bibblio
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A digital publishing content recommendation technology to increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences. Read more about Bibblio on Crunchbase…
Adam Hornsby
Senior Data Scientist @ dunnhumby
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Adam is a Senior Data Scientist at dunnhumby, where he builds and deploys machine learning algorithms at scale for some of the world’s largest retailers. He is also a part-time Experimental Psychology PhD student at UCL, funded by dunnhumby. His research aims to better understand customer purchase behaviour through a combination of data science, machine learning and cognitive modelling.
Learn more about Adam Hornsby on Crunchbase…dunnhumby is a U.K.-based company that helps retailers and brands analyze data in order to improve customer experiences and build loyalties. Read more about dunnhumby on Crunchbase…
Eliano Marques
Senior Data Scientist @ Think Big Analytics
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Pratik Thanki
Data Scientist @ EDGE10
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EDGE10 is a world’s leading provider of Athlete Management Software. Read more about EDGE10 on Crunchbase…
Chiin-Rui Tan
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist @ Rho Zeta AI
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Chiin is a Technical Entrepreneur with 10 years’ experience in leadership and practitioner roles, delivering Data Science services in industry and founding scientific computing communities, at both UK and international levels. She received her BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, specialising in Behavioural Economics, and is an active self-taught programmer (R, Python). Most recently Chiin was the Head of Data Science at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the first Data Scientist hire in the history of this UK government department. Prior to this she’s held positions in industry, including at the Financial Times, M&C Saatchi Group, and Deloitte Consulting, with clients such as Barclays and Barclaycard. Chiin typically advises Board & Senior Management, building strategic data-driven capabilities which enable smarter customer-centric decisions and superior results. Chiin is currently co-founding a FinTech startup called Rho Zeta, developing AI solutions for banks’ trading problems. A regular on the London tech scene, Chiin is an active Data Science speaker, evangelist, and mentor, particularly known for her leadership role in the R-Ladies organisation, a Linux Foundation funded initiative to promote gender diversity in the global R community.
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Angus Taylor
Data Scientist @ Microsoft
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Angus Taylor is a data scientist in the Cloud AI group. He holds a MSc in AI from the University of Edinburgh. He works on building data science solutions for external customers in the retail, energy, engineering and package distribution sectors.
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Leonard Newnham
Chief Data Scientist @ LoopMe
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Leonard holds a PhD in Machine Learning with 16 years’ experience in online behavioral targeting, real-time decisioning and targeted advertising. He was a key player in two successful start-ups, working as Chief Scientist at TouchClarity (sold to Omniture) and Chief Data Scientist at Causata (sold to Nice Systems).
Learn more about Leonard Newnham on Crunchbase…LoopMe is closing the loop on brand advertising, using AI, attribution and analytics to deliver measurable uplift in brand outcomes. Read more about LoopMe on Crunchbase…
Herve Schnegg
Principal Data Scientist @ Station10
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Station10 translates data into insights that helps to analyze multi-channel customer data behavior. Read more about Station10 on Crunchbase…
Giovanna Miritello
Lead Data Scientist @ Vodafone
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Giovanna is Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone UK where she uses data to build a personalised experience for customers. She is a passionate of network science with experience in industry and academic fields. Her doctoral thesis on “Temporal patterns of human communication in social networks” was published by Springer as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. In 2013 she was selected for the Insight Data Science program in Silicon Valley, a program to acquire experience in data analysis and machine learning. In 2014 she was awarded by the “Junior Scientific Award” from the Complex Systems Society for her contributions to computational social science.
Learn more about Giovanna Miritello on Crunchbase…Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services. Read more about Vodafone on Crunchbase…
Giovanna Miritello
Lead Data Scientist @ Vodafone
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Giovanna is Lead Data Scientist at Vodafone UK where she uses data to build a personalised experience for customers. She is a passionate of network science with experience in industry and academic fields. Her doctoral thesis on “Temporal patterns of human communication in social networks” was published by Springer as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. In 2013 she was selected for the Insight Data Science program in Silicon Valley, a program to acquire experience in data analysis and machine learning. In 2014 she was awarded by the “Junior Scientific Award” from the Complex Systems Society for her contributions to computational social science.
Learn more about Giovanna Miritello on Crunchbase…Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services. Read more about Vodafone on Crunchbase…
Changtao Zhang
Data Scientist @ Twitter
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Changtao is a data scientist at Twitter UK. Prior to joining Twitter, he received his PhD in social computing from King’s College London. He has focussed on the analysing of massive multimedia content and social structures of online social networks.
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Andy Pryke
Data Scientist @ Prodigy Education
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Dr. Andrew Weeks
Data Scientist @ Aire
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Aire provides credit assessment services that gives people a new credit score to help them qualify for essential financial products. Read more about Aire on Crunchbase…
Matt Jenkins
Senior Data Scientist @ Bloom & Wild
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Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform developing a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones. Read more about Bloom & Wild on Crunchbase…
Kate Harris
Data Scientist @ Cirium
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Kate Harris is part of Cirium’s data science team, working on projects covering a range of sectors and datasets. She manages the graduations in the team as well as being involved in the wider RBI graduate scheme. Kate started her career in astrophysics working in academic institute across the world, looking at galaxy formation using observations from both ground based telescopes and satellite data, before doing a career change into data science. She worked an e-commerce company before moving to RBI to become one of the core members of the team in 2017. Kate has been working with data for many years and enjoys digging around in the databases and problem solving. She loves bring together different aspects of the business to make the most out of the data, and guiding and helping her graduates with their skills and careers.
Learn more about Kate Harris on Crunchbase…Cirium brings together aviation and travel data and analytics to keep the world moving. Read more about Cirium on Crunchbase…
Evelina Gabasova
Principal Research Data Scientist @ Alan Turing Institute
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Adrien Bizeray
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist @ Brill Power
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Brill Power is a clean-tech platform that develops cutting-edge battery management technology. Read more about Brill Power on Crunchbase…
Ollie Glass
Contract data scientist, machine learning engineer & data strategist @ Ollie Glass Ltd
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I help companies with data science and machine learning from strategy to build. My work spans data science, engineering, product and business. Clients include venture-backed startups funded by Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, BGF and other top investors. If you’re looking for a data scientist, if you have a project in mind or want to explore ideas, feel free to get in touch.
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Merve Alanyali
Lead Data Scientist @ LV=
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LV= is a forward thinking and dynamic financial services business. Read more about LV= on Crunchbase…
Jake Li
Co-Founder, COO & Data Scientist @ Kuan Intelligence
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Henrietta Forssen
Data Scientist @ Expedia
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Henrietta is a Data Scientist at Hotels.com brand, part of Expedia Group. She has worked on a range of projects relating to marketing and attribution, building machine learning models deployed across the business. Prior to Hotels.com Henrietta completed an MSc in Machine Learning, after working for several years as a Business Intelligence and Analytics Consultant.
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Matti Kahola
Data Scientist @ Scottish Power plc
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ScottishPower are amongst the top 6 power companies in the UK. Read more about Scottish Power plc on Crunchbase…
Clive Humby
Chief Data Scientist @ Starcount
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Starcount is the definitive measure of social media popularity. Read more about Starcount on Crunchbase…
Valeria Cortez Vaca Diez
Data Scientist @ Lloyds Banking Group
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Lloyds Banking Group is a major British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. Read more about Lloyds Banking Group on Crunchbase…
Chak Leung
Data Scientist @ Adaptavist
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Adaptavist provides professional services, managed services, and add-on products for the Atlassian suite. Read more about Adaptavist on Crunchbase…
Douglas Ashton
Chief Data Scientist @ Pure Planet
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Pure Planet is a app-based renewable energy supplier. Read more about Pure Planet on Crunchbase…
Dimitry Foures
Data Scientist @ Cambridge Energy Data Lab
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CEDL creates intelligent predictive models for energy consumption. Read more about Cambridge Energy Data Lab on Crunchbase…
Michael Kightley
Partner and Data Scientist @ Inflexion Analytics
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A team of Data Analytics experts whose purpose is to help more firms to benefit from advanced analytics Read more about Inflexion Analytics on Crunchbase…
Chris West
Chief Data Scientist @ BB1
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Machine Learning using deep learning. Read more about BB1 on Crunchbase…
Miguel Cunhal
Data Scientist @ Rotageek
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Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency. Read more about Rotageek on Crunchbase…
Lizzie Eardley
Senior Data Scientist @ Split Software
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Lizzie Eardley is an ex-astrophysicist turned data scientist with a passion for deriving insights from data and a mission to make statistics less scary. She is currently working on the statistical engine that drives the A/B testing functionality at Split, a product decisions platform to enable the rapid and safe delivery of software. Prior to Split, she worked on data science teams at Skyscanner and Booking.com, helping colleagues of all disciplines benefit from the power of online experimentation and A/B testing.
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Mert Uzan
Data Scientist – ETL Developer @ VexPop
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VexPop is a social utility platform that allows consumers to express their opinions on a range of topics. Read more about VexPop on Crunchbase…
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