Advisors

Advisory Board

• Igor Borojevic, Business Products Analytics Lead, PayPal. Igor leads a team of talented product analysts in PayPal’s Business Products line. Before this position, Igor consulted and held various technical and management positions at companies such as Boston Consulting Group, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Igor is an accredited IBM IT Architect with deep passion for agile product and customer development. Igor holds MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Dipl.-Ing. in E.E. C.S. from University of Zagreb.

• Denis Descause, Global Business Development Lead, SAP. Denis Descause, Global Business Development Lead at SAP, is a Business Executive with more than 20 years of experience in the Software Industry from R&D, Sales and Marketing, Strategy to Top Management. Prior to SAP, he held different positions at Boston Consulting Group and HP. He has an extensive knowledge of the Analytics and Big Data markets. He graduated in France from ENSTA, Paris XI University, and Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris.
• Sriram Sankar, Ph.D., Search Ranking, Facebook. Sriram leads ranking at Facebook Search software. He got his PhD from Stanford University in 1989 and has worked at many Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems, VMware, and Google.
• Aleksander Sobczyk, Ph.D., Head of Quantitative Research, Thomson Reuters. Aleksander is the head of quantitative research team for Machine Readable News at Thomson Reuters. Prior to his work at Thomson Reuters, Aleks was a Senior Fixed Income Research Analyst at BondDesk Group, developing models supporting electronic bond trading. Before that, he was Portfolio Manager for a quantitative hedge fund, managing global long/short equity strategies. Aleks holds PhD in Physics from Stony Brook University and BA/MS in Theoretical Physics from Jagiellonian University.