Leadership
Tom Saleh
Co-Founder, CEO
Tom is a trailblazing entrepreneur and veteran of the computer industry with over three decades of experience founding and leading high-technology companies. He has achieved several successful exits to companies like Raytheon, Reuters (now LSEG), and the International Futures and Commodities Exchange (now part of the CME group). As former CTO of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Tom has served as senior adviser to NASDAQ, NYSE, and Safeway Supermarkets. He currently serves as director of six venture-backed companies and advises several private equity funds.
Laura Trumbull
Co-Founder, COO
Laura brings over 30 years of financial markets technology expertise. After earning her B.A. from Harvard, she worked at Reuters for almost twenty years in senior global roles including product management, development management of equities trading products, and governance of quality assurance, architecture, and DevOps processes. She later served as VP of Marketing Applications Technology at Meredith Corporation (now People Inc.) before becoming COO and CTO of Chaikin Analytics, which was acquired by Stansberry & Associates Investment Research.
Larry Rafsky
Co-Founder, CTO
Larry is a prominent American data scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He co-invented the Friedman-Rafsky Test, a key procedure in multivariate data analysis, earning him the Theory and Methods Award from the American Statistical Association. Larry holds 14 U.S. patents focused on real-time numeric and text analytics, and has published in Econometrica, The Annals of Statistics, and Management Science. A summa cum laude graduate of Princeton with a Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale, his three prior startups—FAME, GARI, and Acquire Media—led to successful exits via acquisitions by Citicorp, Dow Jones, and Moody's.
Steven Jacobs
CFO
Steve brings more than 30 years of experience in accounting and finance, having served as Chief Financial Officer and board member for both public and private companies across diverse industries. He has extensive expertise in corporate finance and investment banking, including prior roles as Managing Director at a Florida-based NYSE firm and as co-founder of a boutique investment bank. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida and maintains multiple FINRA securities licenses, with expertise in financial strategy, capital markets, and corporate governance.
Team
Ed Saleh
Hardware & Firmware
M.S. Computer Engineering
Kerry Gerontianos
Applications Strategy
B.E. Computer Science
Robert Ungar
Software & DevOps
B.E. EE
Chirag Manjunath
AI/ML Research, Software & DevOps
B.E. Computer Science
Aleksej Baksajev
AI/ML Research
Ph.D. Statistics
Roberta Guarino
Software & Algorithms
Ph.D. Statistics
Roberto Martinez Cruz
AI/ML Research
M.Sc. AI
Stuart Greenlee
AI/ML Research
M.A. Economics
Kevin Zhao
PM & AI Governance
M.S. Finance, M.A. Chemistry
Yves Greatti
AI/ML Research
M.Sc. Math, M.S. Comp Sci, M.S. Robotics, MSE BioMed Engineering
Matt Downey
Hardware & Firmware
MS EM Engineering Management
Thanmai G R
Associate Data Scientist
B.E. Computer Science
Strategic Advisory Board
Clelia Biamonti
Advisor
Clelia Biamonti, Ph.D., is a healthcare and biopharmaceutical executive with experience in commercialization, market access, consulting, and nonprofit leadership. She is Chief Philanthropy Officer of the Overlook Foundation and previously served as a Senior Principal at Blue Fin Group, with earlier roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coopers & Lybrand, and Boston Medical Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and a B.A. in Philosophy.
Nick Hockler
Advisor
Nick Hockler is President and COO of Pypestream, an enterprise AI company whose customers have included HBO Max, Chase, Shell, Procter & Gamble, Sling TV, and Royal Caribbean. He previously served as Pypestream’s Director of Customer Experience and as a Managing Consultant at IBM. His experience spans AI, enterprise technology, engineering, and customer solutions. Nick holds an Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from Syracuse University.
Lester Lyles
Advisor
General Lester L. Lyles is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general and former Vice Chief of Staff with extensive defense, aerospace, and technology leadership experience. He later served as Chairman of USAA and KBR, a director of General Dynamics, and Managing Partner of early-stage technology investor Four Seasons Ventures. He holds engineering degrees from Howard University and New Mexico State University.
Michael Salk
Advisor
Michael Salk is a senior technology and financial-information executive with deep experience in data, analytics, and emerging technologies. He is President of Diol.io and Chief Customer Officer of Inveniam, and previously spent approximately 18 years at Moody’s Analytics in senior leadership roles. Earlier, he held positions at Reuters, The Associated Press, and Bridge Information Systems. He holds a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
Technical Advisory Board
Karen Haigh
Advisor
Karen Haigh is an IEEE Fellow and Principal of Haskill Consulting, advising on cognitive electronic warfare and embedded AI/ML for real-time, resource-constrained systems. She is co-author of Cognitive Electronic Warfare: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, with a career spanning Honeywell, BBN Technologies, L3, and Mercury Systems. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.
Dimitris A. Pados
Advisor
Dimitris A. Pados is the Charles E. Schmidt Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Connected Autonomy and AI at Florida Atlantic University, leading federally funded research (DARPA, AFRL, DIU) on networked AI and secure wireless communications for contested environments. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Yuling Yao
Advisor
Yuling Yao is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Sciences at UT Austin. His research focuses on Bayesian methodology — model evaluation, averaging, and aggregation — and scalable computation, including MCMC and variational inference. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from Columbia University and was previously a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Simons Foundation.