David Stevenson Email & Phone Number

DISTINGUISHED AI LEADER & CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST• Focused on delivering business value using AI and machine learning• Extensive experience in the practical application and development of AI and other Data Science in the fast moving, data-driven environments of Morgan Stanley, Dell Secureworks, MOD, PA Consulting and others.• Commercially minded e.g. previously founder/CTO of venture-backed search-engine start-up Company Radar Ltd.• Strategic outlook and excellent presentation skills, having spent 12 years with major consulting firm, PA Consulting Group• Extensive stakeholder management experience including engagement with non-technical, cross-functional teams.• Leadership skills include building a Data Science team, from scratch, for Morgan Stanley• Previously responsible for AI/Big Data development at Dell Secureworks.• Founder/CTO of venture-backed start-up, Company Radar, where our chairman was the former-CEO of Ask Jeeves (Europe) and who also invested personally in the company. Ask Jeeves was the world's 3rd largest search engine at the time and we built an entire Internet-scale search engine, from scratch, on which I hold the patents.EXPERT COMMUNICATOR• Renowned, expert communicator and advocate of AI e.g. interviewed by Pulitzer-nominated journalist Russ Banham, from California, USA on AI• Invited to speak at: - Generative AI Summit, London; presentation described as 'fantastic' by organisers - Google Dev Day; - the University of Glasgow, every year, as Guest Lecturer on AI & machine learning. - the eCrime & Cyber-Security Congress, where unexpectedly introduced by a colleague as "Q, from James Bond”DEEP EXPERTISE• BSc (Hons) Computer Science & Electronics from Edinburgh University, which is ranked #14 for Computer Science globally• Started coding aged 13, was winning national coding competitions by 16, and still doing it!

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  The University Of Edinburgh

  Computer Science & Electronics - Joint (Double Major) Degree