ChainML: Team

Leadership

Founder & CEO

15 years as exec for ML companies

Created ChainML to to empower communities and Web3 protocols to control and benefit from AI.
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Previously:

VP of AI Engineering and CIO at Vector Institute. Applied AI to industry, health and safety and provided computing infrastructure and engineering for AI research.
Google Cloud CTO office. Leader for Applied AI collaborative innovation working with strategic customers and Google AI research and engineering teams.
Founder and CEO of Think Big Analytics - enterprise AI and engineering software and services. Acquired by Teradata. After acquisition, Ron led Think Big’s global expansion and created an AI product group at Teradata.
VP Engineering at Quantcast. Led AI and engineering teams for real-time advertising and audience insights business.
Co-Founder and CTO of C-Bridge Internet Solutions. Successful IPO.

CTO

Proven leader in software engineering & AI

Focused on building a tamperproof protocol for decentralized machine learning computation for Web3 in a scalable way.
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Previously:

VP of Engineering at Ripcord. Led engineering and machine learning teams to build a highly scalable platform supporting digitization, content management and document understanding.
Senior Director of Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence. Led the software engineering team to incubate AI technology into Teradata.
Director and Principal Engineer at EMC/Captiva/OpenText. Led the software engineering team to build an intelligent document extraction platform.
Senior Engineer at CapGemini. Technical lead of the software engineering team. Built a platform to compute aircraft performance for Airbus.

Co-Founder & Lead ML Scientist

Expert in ML privacy & cryptography

Focused on developing core technologies and community-driven use cases for ML in Web3.
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Previously:

Applied Machine Learning Scientist at Vector Institute, serving as AI technical lead for projects in privacy enhancing techniques, time series forecasting, and large-scale mobility data modeling.
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph focusing on applied machine learning for economic forecasting.
Data Scientist at Preteckt, building ML models for predictive maintenance in transportation.
PhD in machine learning from Western University focusing on reinforcement learning.

Co-Founder & Head of Product

Experienced leader in AI and ML applications, product and strategy

Leadership in product strategy and management, excited to bring trustless machine learning to Web3.

Previously:

Data Science Director at Coupang leading teams applying data science to solve problems in operational cost and fulfilment efficiency.
Product Management Director at Teradata leading the incubation of AI technology into Teradata's product offerings.
Data Science Practice Lead at Teradata, heading up Teradata's South East Asia's data science team.
Head of Data Science at intelliAd, a German adtech startup, focusing on advanced statistical attribution modeling and customer journey analytics.