Dr. Rado Kotorov is a co-founder of Trendalyze who holds a PhD in decision and game theory from Bowling Green State University. He has numerous publications on business and technology and has co-authored a book on Organizational Intelligence with Gerry Cohen, founder and CEO of Information Builders Inc. Rado is passionate about discovering new approaches, methods, and technologies for more granular analytics as a means to drive more scientific discoveries and better business outcomes.

Rado has held various executive positions in finance, marketing, product and innovation management at DeBacker Management Inc., ClubMom Inc., and Information Builders Inc. Under his leadership, his teams have delivered an innovative POS and financial platform, a highly scalable campaign and micro segmentation platform, a new reporting format for emailing self-contained interactive reports and dashboards, the first relational database search for business intelligence, the first web-based AJAX ad hoc reporting tool, the first integration of R into a BI platform, and other.

He holds a number of US patents and speaks frequently at industry events on how data and analytics can drive innovation, new business models, new revenue streams, and higher organizational performance.

Dave Watson is a Co-Founder of Trendalyze, who holds a number of UK and US patents and has led engineering in database middleware, OLAP and time series databases.

Dave held executive and development management positions with Informix Software (IBM), ASK Group/Ingres (CA/Actian) and iWay Software. Under his leadership, his team delivered OEM software for IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, BEA and PeopleSoft. Furthermore, he has delivered large scale time series databases and bond portfolio analytics projects for investment banks in London and Wall Street. Lastly, he has delivered solutions in healthcare globally for NHS, APHP and VA.

He speaks at number industry events including IoT Things Expo, NoSQL Now, MongoDB Europe, Gartner, IDC, TDWI, VLDB, DB/EXPO, Google, Bearingpoint, Fujitsu and IBM/Informix user groups. Dave holds first class honors degree in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Bristol.

Mr Ilian Petrov brings more than two decades of global business development, investment, trading and advisory experience across traditional and alternative financial assets. He has built new distribution markets for innovative financial products; managed and advised on multi-million dollar investments across developed and emerging markets; structured and sold customized solutions for institutional and affluent clients while employed at Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch Bank of America and a number of boutique Wall Street firms. Over the past few years, his interest has shifted toward information technology and its transformative impact on financial services. In his spare time, Ilian is an avid cyclist and motor biker, an outdoors enthusiast and a global travel adventurer. He is keenly interested in foreign affairs, human rights and sustainability.
Mr Petrov holds a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.

Miguel oversees all the marketing and outreach activities at Trendalyze. Prior to joining the team, he has been an advisor for a multitude of B2B SaaS solutions ranging from healthcare to software discovery platforms.

Miguel graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and received his MBA in Global Business Administration.

Susan’s primary research focus is on the nature of the mind, AI, ethics, and cognitive science. Her most recent publications are on superintelligent AI, the nature of thought, the mathematical nature of physics, and whether the mind is a program. Her work has been mentioned in The New York Times, Wired, Science, Big Think, Nautilus, Smithsonian, Discover, and many more.

Susan is a faculty member at the Department of Philosophy Cognitive Science Program (University of Connecticut), and is also affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), YHouse think tank (New York), Ethics and Technology Group at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics (Yale), Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton), and other.

Aside from his role at Trendalyze, Dan is a senior lecturer within the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). He also leads Surgical Robot Vision Group. His research interests and expertise include surgical vision and computational imaging, surgical robotics, image guided therapies, and surgical process analysis.
He is a committee leader for computer assisted surgery and healthcare at MICCAI and IPCAI. Furthermore, he is a deputy editor for the International Journal in Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery and an assistant editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He holds a first class honors in Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering at King’s College London. He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Imperial College London, specializing in medical image computing.

Lorant Szabo is an influential payments industry leader with 18 years of experience in the areas of data analytics, finance, strategy and extensive knowledge of the North American and European payments ecosystem and related technologies.
Lorant designed and under his leadership his teams implemented innovative solutions for different business problems leveraging the big data captured in card payments. He delivered various presentations on related topics at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Decision Support Systems section and conferences organized by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Pricing and Revenue Management section.

Evangelos B. Mazomenos is a Senior Research Associate at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Surgical and Interventional Sciences, University College London where he works on pioneering autonomous intelligent systems for optimizing surgical interventions, diagnosis and delivery of healthcare. His research interests broadly include surgical skills and workflow analysis, computer vision in computer-aided interventions, biomedical informatics and surgical robotics. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton, UK and an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Patras, Greece.

Tom Wisniewski is a Managing Partner of Newark Venture Partners (NVP), a $45M venture capital fund based in Newark NJ focused on Seed/Series-A investments in B2B software start-ups. NVP leverages the resources of its fund investors--Audible, Amazon, Prudential, D&B, among others-- to help scale its portfolio investments. NVP invests both directly into Seed/Series A rounds, and via the NVP Labs Program, all based in its state-of-the-art co-working space co-located with Audible in downtown Newark. www.newark.vc

Tom’s professional career began as a software engineer at Morgan Stanley, followed by several years in investment banking (1987 to 1991). After business school, Tom joined a start-up management consulting firm, the Mitchell Madison Group, that was a spin off from McKinsey. At MMG, he focused on the intersection of Strategy/Operations/IT for financial services, tech, private equity/VC clients (1993 to 2000). The firm grew from start-up to over 1000 professionals and 15 offices and was sold to USWeb/CKS in early 2000. Following MMG, Tom joined Walker Digital, an internet incubator run by Jay Walker, founder of Priceline. During much of the next decade, he advised VC and PE firms on portfolio company turn-arounds, and evaluating new investments. On two occasions, Tom joined the management team of the companies he was serving, to lead turn-arounds and major company expansions.

In addition to NVP, Tom is a Partner of RosePaul Investments, his family office, which has a portfolio of 30 seed stage tech investments as well as 12 VC fund investments. He is a board director of New York Angels, a seed investment group and a frequent speaker at tech-start-up events. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Clark University, and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.

Ivaylo is an experienced technology leader with a strong background in strategy, business development and implementation leadership. He has served as an IT executive advisor to Fortune 500 companies and developed consulting practices for companies such as Deloitte. Ivaylo was a founding partner in a number of successful technology start-ups including Telispark, Concord, and LogicalFactor headquartered in the U.S.