Tim Sears Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, CA, US

Mountain View, California, US

Groq’s Language Processing Unit™ (LPU), an AI inference accelerator, and Cloud Platform have set the bar for fast inference of generative AI. Groq offers inference on large language models (LLMs), speech-to-text, and vision models that run our custom software stack. Directed a high-performance software engineering team that developed and optimized.

• Provided technical and strategic guidance to clients in machine learning and functional programming.
• Advised family offices on tech investment decisions.
• Collaborated with teams at Tweag.io and Bain & Company to develop innovative solutions for clients' needs.
• Achieved measurable impacts on revenue and efficiency through strategic recommendations.

Boston, MA, US

External Advisor to Bain & Company's amazing Advanced Analytics Group (AAG). AAG is helping Bain's clients deliver value from data, analytics and AI to the bottom line.

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

Technical and Business Development at one of the most remarkable tech labs in the world, tweag.io.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Built and led team of data scientists, data engineers, and big data platform specialists for the best loved retailer in the U.S. Joined as Target reorganized for a successful digital transformation. Grew a global AI team by over 4x and expanded scope of efforts to many parts of Target, including personalization, targeted advertising, enterprise forecasting.

Mountain View, CA, US

Launched mobile app called Grocery Exchange to empower shoppers with a platform to share and compare grocery prices. This advanced mobile shopping list will enable families to save billions on their grocery bill. Crowdsourcing data has proven to be an effective and inexpensive means for gathering data in apps such as Waze and GasBuddy. Pingwell supports.

Renewable energy company focused on increasing the supply of sustainably produced biodiesel and green jet fuel. Biogreen Oil garnered a $150mm investment from a major international pension fund. Developed investment strategies and protocols, set up local operating companies, evaluated local partners and governments and conducted project assessments in over.

New York, NY, US

Morgan Stanley is the place that sparked in me a deep interest in technology and better ways to build software. Banking and finance provide some of the ultimate tests of systems made by people and of people. After 8 1/2 years at MS and 20 years in business I headed off to earn a PhD in machine learning.Before that I worked in Fixed Income Technology.

New York, New York, US

Proud to have worked at a great firm with talented colleagues who challenged me to contribute in so many different ways.My first assignment was to work on Market Research. I led the market research group for mortgage securities, publishing over 200 weekly reports plus numerous white papers. I designed and implemented the first mortgage valuation system at.

US

Joined Shearson Lehman Brothers straight out of grad school. Anybody remember Shearson? EF Hutton? Extra points for Mabon Nugent, Manny Hanny, or Keith Hernandez.Hired into the hot product area of the day, Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS). Back then the credit quality of MBS was so high, defaults were just an afterthought. The market was growing fast as.

Ph.D., Computer Science, Machine Learning

M.S., Economics And Finance

B.A., Economics