Responsible for the creation, development and continuous improvement of DI's groundbreaking AI solutions.

Responsibilities include: - Identifying new investments - Participation in investment and diligence meetings - Serving as a director, advisor or liaison of certain portfolio companies of the Fund

Write about AI, Defense and Intelligence analysis. Please refer to my LinkedIn article for a complete list of my publications.

Advisor on Defence technologies and AI driven solutions for intelligence professionals

Product manager for Moderator, CalypsoAI's solution for the safe use of Large Language Models. More information at https://moderator.calypsoai.com/enterprise

- Responsible for 3 teams of 6+ each, compose of Applied Scientists, Model Engineers and Software Engineers - Specialised in 4 critical domains: information extraction, management and exploitation, synthetic civilian population, Information warfare simulations, wargame solutions - Created 3 product roadmaps from scratch, owned and managed the discovery/design/development activities that led to the development of multiple transformative applications and services (speeding up time to information discovery and solution delivery from weeks to hours) - Work across multiple teams: from Partnerships to Sales to Platform engineering - Designated point of contact for the Research Team on Foundation Models and NLP applications

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Within Adarga core product: the « Intelligence Analyst workbench » platform, Responsible for the development and management of product features aiming at capturing, filtering, processing and delivering bespoke intelligence feeds as well as generating insights based on the Intelligence cycle requirements. Customers include National Security organisations, the Defence industry and tier 1 Risk management firms. Technology stack focused on state of the art Natural Language Processing (NLP) and graph theories applications.Currently managing a full stack development team composed of senior data scientists, backend and front end engineers.Engage with customers and senior stakeholders on a regular basis such as technical SMEs and intelligence professionals to maintain and develop customer focused product roadmaps. Develop and nurture relationships with data and technological partners to grow our technical portfolio and service offering.

- Co-lead the development of partnership projects requiring Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning solutions- Technical expert on IHS Markit prototype Event platform levering latest NLP techniques to automate the collection and the classification of events - Heavily focused on R&D: how to apply the latest Advanced Analytics innovation to our product range. - - Built and delivered data ETL prototypes using either KNIME, DATAIKU in combination with Python scripts, leading to 600k of new commercial pipeline opportunities involving two major national security customers

- Redesigned the entire Product stack presentation to facilitate and improve customer understanding as well as clarifying our product architecture internally. Secured approval from IHS Markit C-Suite to develop the interactive product map prototype into a full group-wide platform. - Leveraging the new product map, played a key role in supporting the expansion of our datasets into AI focused capabilities and systems, feeding back requirements, emerging technologies and Defence industry practices to the business to support the long-term development of the offering.- Act as a focal point for the product management team with the software development team and the customer on a number of different assignments. - On the sales side: help the customer - governments, armed forces, intelligence agencies and Defence contractors - to understand, integrate and use IHS Jane's data in ways that best supports their workflow and needs. - On the product development side: work with the product managers and developers to analyze and translate product requirements into specifications outlining how the customer problems are solved.- Also involved in pre- & post-sales support and paid engagements to customers to help embed out tools and data to enable customers to get the most from our content.

- Start-up experience- Responsible for data quality and accuracy across EU, US and Caribbean regions using mySQL databases.- Support data manager and data architect to create new report/KPI statistics and reports. Developed a keen interest for data related assignments.- Understand and interpret the business aviation market. Specialised in the airfields and handling market, conduct primary research, advise on strategy and develop relationships within the international handling space.

- Open Source Intelligence / Defence and Security (OSINT) specialist- Support 5 Senior Business Developers (three 4-star generals and one senior ambassador), providing them with market analysis, country files and situation reports on the Defence Transformation and Military Outsourcing market.- In charge of tender applications for 2 major Land Training programmes. Identified and resolved planning and business plan discrepancies working with HR, IT and finance teams.- Lead research and data collection projects on niche markets including force generation training and land equipment programmes.- Report directly to CEO on a number of individual cases.- KPIs focused on the successful delivery of projects within time and budget.- Drafted 2 in-depth studies on the US military cooperation agenda and compiled informationon high-value government budgets.

- Open Source Intelligence / Maritime Security (OSINT) specialist- Hired to gather piracy information and provide results to security teams and external clients.- Worked independently on projects, liaising with security teams and reporting directly to seniormanagement.- KPIs focus on quality assessment of reports and client satisfactory rate.- Developed the Strategic Intelligence Department using open source software and building anextensive active network.- Created and updated a bespoke database daily, keeping track of all piracy and maritime cri- minality activities in the Indian ocean and the Gulf of Guinea.- Create bespoke weekly and monthly maritime intelligence reports and country profiles on the East Africa region using excel databases, weather reports, confidential and open source in- formation.- Managed an operational base in Djibouti with 20 staff and $50k monthly budget.- Deployed maritime security teams 24/7 from East Africa to client vessels navigating on the Red sea shipping route.

- Led business analysis on metal trade and clean energies markets including data collection, database design and analysis and presentation of findings.- Collected, assessed and interpreted complex data on Rare Earth Elements without any previous knowledge of the field of work studied.- Drafted and delivered an in-depth report on Rare Earth Elements for the board of directors.- Extensive use of Ms Office including advanced Excel functions.

- Drafted position papers, crisis management procedures and in-depth intelligence reports during the 2009 crisis about Iran’s uranium enrichment capacities- Risk assessment based on field information - Organised conferences on the French White Paper on Defence and National Security • Took active part in the delivery of an intelligence report to the highest French authorities for the visit of a foreign official in Paris

- Drafted position papers on complex industrial issues related to the signing of a major equipment contract with a Middle East client- Organised conferences on the French White Paper on Defence and National Security- Took active part in the delivery an intelligence report to the highest French authorities for the visit of a foreign official in Paris