Senior leader in technology, accomplished data scientist and insightful quantitative researcher, able to solve complex business problems by creatively integrating multidisciplinary approaches to understand, model and predict patterns and correlations in large data sets. Experienced manager, mentor and teacher with hands-on experience on advanced mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods. Able to make a difference and lead disruption by triggering and leveraging the desire to improve and embrace new technologies. Committed to leading the development of market-changing technologies and solving non-trivial business challenges with an entrepreneurial attitude.Specialties:* Exceptionally strong relationship and stakeholder management, articulate and passionate with well developed coaching and mentoring skills.* Leader in advanced mathematical modelling of a multitude of business and scientific problems with exceptional knowledge and expertise of a wide variety of approaches in AI and machine learning.* Strong consumer and customer orientation with a practical approach to problem solving.* Managed, coached, taught, mentored, hunted and hired highly skilled PhD level scientific personnel.* Solved problems involving credit risk, modelled billions of financial transactions for millions of consumers and businesses, modelled of shopping behaviour in retail at SKU-level, performed consumer segmentation, semantic extraction and information classification of textual entities via LSTMs, network graph analysis and its use to lift model predictions, topic modelling, recommender systems, lifetime value prediction, fraud detection via deep learning, fusion and linkage of data, systematically demonstrating statistical significance of model predictions.