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Dr. Doganata has been conducting research, initiating, developing and delivering projects in broad research areas of computer science for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Accrete.AI, Dr. Doganata has worked as a Research scientist and as a Solutions Technical lead at IBM T. J. Watson Research and IBM Watson Health. His responsibilities included planning, architecting, delivering complex, technology-based, innovative data driven solutions and prototypes using data analytics, information management techniques, NLP, machine learning, predictive modeling and cognitive technologies. His current focus is to extract insight from structured and unstructured data using artificial intelligence to make timely and accurate decisions in financial domain.

As the Chief Technical Officer at Accrete.AI, Dr. Doganata monitors and assesses new technologies as well as existing technology choices, aligns technology-based projects with the company strategy, drives innovative solutions for future offerings, improves existing offerings. He also acts as the Chief Innovation Officer to develop and foster innovation culture, manage the innovation process, identify and protect Accrete.AI’s intellectual property.

Dr. Doganata received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, all in electrical/electronics engineering. He has 48 patents, more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and conferences and a number of innovation and excellence awards. He is the recipient of IBM Eminence and Excellence Award in 2014 for his contribution to build an innovation center for a bank in Spain.

Dr. Baly is a senior AI scientist at Accrete. Prior to joining Accrete, Dr. Baly worked as a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Baly’s experience involves developing machine learning models for Natural Language Processing (NLP). He worked on optimizing models and meta-frameworks to perform sentiment analysis in different languages — English and Arabic — taking into account their linguistic and morphological characteristics. He also worked on developing models and systems for automated fact-checking, which involved a variety of NLP techniques, including predicting factuality of bias in news media, measuring the stance between claims and full articles, and learning embedded representations for entire documents. His research is published in top-tier journals (ACM TOIS and ACM TALLIP) and conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.)

In addition to completing his postdoctoral research at MIT, Dr. Baly received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, his B.S. degree from Aleppo University, Syria. He also received a research scholar fellowship from Intel Corporation to spend a one-year research visit at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Aside from research, Dr. Baly is an accomplished classical violinist.

Dr. Pant is an AI Scientist at Accrete. His experience involves developing high-fidelity physics-based and data-driven models to study the complicated non-linear interaction between turbulence, chemical kinetics, acoustics and molecular diffusion which is typically observed in aircraft engines, rocket engines, and scramjets. He developed a generalized compressible turbulent combustion solver which uses a stochastic model, the transported probability density function (PDF) method, to study turbulent reacting flows ranging from low-speed subsonic flows to high-speed supersonic flow problems. He used this solver to develop a deep understanding of the effect of transient flame dynamics on thermo-acoustic instability in a rocket engine. He also worked on developing data-driven modeling approaches to study thermo-acoustic instability.

Dr. Pant received a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University, a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India.

Hannah Provenza is a Senior Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Engineer at Accrete. Prior to joining Accrete, Ms. Provenza worked as a research engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies, where she was involved with research on entity extraction and linking, multilingual automatic speech recognition, and machine translation. Ms. Provenza has a M.A. in Computational Linguistics from Brandeis University and a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago.

Aside from research, Ms. Provenza is a nationally and internationally competitive epee fencer.

Ankit carries a professional experience of over 5+ years in the field of Customer Marketing and Analytics, Ankit's interest lies in solving client business problems using insight and recommendation from data-driven insights enhancing the power of statistical models and frameworks. His core responsibilities include Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive analytics to solve the business problem.

He brings analytical experience from Merchandise Retail, Time Sharing (Hospitality sector), Automobile, and Telematics sectors. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for ICT.

Working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Accrete, Daryl creates Machine Learning models, Deep learning neural networks and implements them to conduct intelligent analysis for various use cases at the company. Before joining Accrete, Daryl interned as a Data Analyst at the New York Department of Health, building ETL models to streamline the Department’s workflows, and as a Quantitative Analyst at a quantitative hedge fund in Manhattan, New York; where he developed extensive Machine Learning models to analyze and predict patterns in financial markets.

Daryl holds a Master of Science in Global Finance with a concentration in Financial Technology from Fordham University, a Master of Arts in Economics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Xiamen University.

As a Business Intelligence Analyst, Rodrigo works closely with the AI and Industry Research teams to create domain-specific training data and metrics for Accrete’s proprietary models.

Rodrigo holds a B.S. in Business with concentrations in Finance and Computing & Data Science from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Vivek Atwal is a Senior NLP Engineer at Accrete. Prior to Joining Accrete Vivek he has worked as an AI Engineer at MIKO (An Advanced Personal Robot for Kids), developing and designing the entire NLP/AI pipeline from research to production. He had also worked on developing models and systems for state-of-art Grammar checker that is being used globally, which involved a variety of NLP techniques. He continuously monitors and assesses new technologies as well as existing technology choices.

Vivek graduated from Pune University, with a major in AI, During his undergraduate, he worked on cutting-edge projects in image processing, and it later turned into a sponsored project.

Mr. Pradip Tivhale is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Accrete.ai. His experience in building an END-END machine learning pipeline in healthcare, finance, and education domains. Specialization in Machine Learning and NLP. Also, he has worked on Microsoft Azure ML, and Amazon SageMaker. Instructor at 4+ AICTE Sponsored Faculty development program on Machine Learning/AI. He has completed his master's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Pradip loves to play chess, cricket, and sometimes cook.

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Accrete, I am involved in the design, development, deploy machine learning and deep learning models into production environments and make them scalable and improve performance.

I have nine years of experience in the IT industry and worked in Banking and Financial Services, HR analytics, and Healthcare industries.
I worked on Regression, Classification, and Deep Learning models using predictive data modeling and analyzing data mining algorithms to deliver insights and implement action-oriented solutions to complex business problems. And also experienced in creating the integration APIs using Python, Java, ESB, Message Broker, and MQ.

Completed BE in Instrumentation technology from BVBCET, Hubli, Karnataka, and Post Graduate Program in AIML from Great Lakes Executive Learning, Bengaluru, and collaborated with the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Before Accrete, I worked at TCS and Mphasis limited.

I have a Masters and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from IIT Chennai and am a Machine Learning Engineer professional with around 2 years of experience in the IT Industry. Before joining Accrete, I worked as an AI Engineer at Quantiphi where I piloted production-grade scalable ML workflows using Tensorflow and GCP. I also have experience in solving core business problems using Data Science in Finance and customer Analytics sectors. Some of the core problems I have worked on are Mutual Fund Recommendation Model, Insurance Model, Credit risk modeling, and Customer Analytics Modeling. I try to keep up with the latest and greatest in Machine Learning by reading blogs/research papers and using these ideas in the problems I pursue.

Prasad Dalavi is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Accrete. He previously worked at Quantiphi Analytics Solutions and Product based startups in Legal Domain, Healthcare, and SCM. He has developed an end-to-end OCR Pipeline for processing Case Files in SUPACE Product, which was launched in the Supreme Court of India by CJI. Prasad is having versatile experience working in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and NLP. He has also worked on Model Interpretation, Face Detection and Recognition, Depth Estimation using Stereo Camera, Security and Safety Systems using Camera Feed, NLP Question Answering System, Chatbot, Docker, GCP, AWS, and IoT.

Prasad has completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He has also conducted workshops for Embedded Systems and worked as Lecturer in Engineering College.

Andrés is a trading veteran with 15 years of experience as an active investor across the capital structure. His experience as both a discretionary and quantitative trader gives him a keen understanding of how markets move and where opportunities for cognitive products are greatest. He designed and developed five fully automated black-box trading systems and co-founded Titus Securities which was subsequently acquired by T3 Trading Group in 2011.

Andrés is also a graduate of the Wharton School with a degree in economics, entrepreneurship, information systems, and marketing.

As the Head of Business Development, Alex leads initiatives to grow the business, develop new partnerships and build the presence of Accrete. As a strategy and analytics consultant and API Economy researcher at IBM, he gained his background in Fintech and helped enable startups to compete with enterprise companies. Alex also has degrees in Psychology and Markets & Management from Duke University, where he merged his experience together to search for cognitive biases in markets as well as in life.

Lucy is the head of industry research at Accrete. She supervises domain knowledge integration with machine learning models throughout the product life cycle, from ontology creation to workflow design, to setting deployment standards. Lucy is a veteran research analyst with over 10 years of sell-side equity research experience focusing on aerospace & defense.

Prior to joining Accrete, she worked at Cowen & Company as a lead analyst covering publicly traded government IT firms. Institutional Investor voted Lucy as an All-American Rising Star. She started her research career at Bear Stearns and AllianceBernstein. Lucy is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Deesha is a Senior Product Designer with experience working in UI/UX across product, marketing and branding.

Prior to joining Accrete, Deesha led the Design team as the Creative Director at King Children in New York and also helped lead human computer interaction at Verisk Analytics as the Senior Art Director. With experience driving UI/UX in B2B, Direct to Consumer and Data Analytics, Deesha is passionate about human-centered design and enjoys introducing new creative thinking processes to complex systems.

Deesha holds a B.F.A in Industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Prior to Accrete she worked in the B2B and Direct to Consumer Space.

Sam is a Product Manager with a 15 year fintech background. He has over a decade of discretionary trading experience, managing an equity trading office with the focus of systematic event-driven trading. He led a team of engineers overseeing real-time news parsing and trading software from ideation through implementation. Prior to joining Accrete, he utilized social media, alternative, and traditional data to uncover and relate events to financial markets at Dataminr.

In addition to earning FINRA Series 7, 55, 57, and 63 licenses, Sam graduated from the RH Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland with degrees in Marketing and Supply Chain Management.

Ieshaan currently serves as the Visual Designer at Accrete. He specializes in 3D Animation and Visual Effects and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a BFA in Digital Arts.

As a Product Designer, Rohit specializes in designing digital products, websites, mobile apps & creating user-centric layouts using design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite(Illustrator & Photoshop), Sketch & InVision.

His work is guided by a strong belief in design as a problem-solving tool, as a way of recognizing and forming relationships between ideas and reality, and as a method for improving the connections between people and the products they use.

Rohit also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Mumbai University.

Adam leads our Knowledge team that works with our analyst, AI research, engineering, and development teams to create latent mathematical representations of tacit domain knowledge that seed proprietary learning models with context. The Knowledge team also provides feedback to these models and helps establish learning curves and accuracy measurements. Adam is a graduate of Hamilton College and Columbia University.

As a Senior Analyst at Accrete, Vivek works closely with the latest AI technology; and involves himself with research for complex financial and economic topics; validates output and suggests improvements to machine learning models.

Vivek has over four years of experience in the financial services industry. He started his career back in 2011 with Eclerx Services Ltd., wherein he worked towards developing robust financial analytical models. Post that, he has spent nearly three years at Crisil, as a Senior Research Analyst, where he was primarily responsible for providing business intelligence to investment banks from revenue and market size perspective.

Prior to joining Accrete, he was pursuing his passion in stock trading and managing multiple investment portfolios. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research.

Mahek has completed his Bachelor’s in Commerce with a specialization in Financial Markets from Mumbai university, along with that he completed his Certified Financial Planner (CFP) with a B grade. Mahek also passed his CFA level I after his graduation. He interned with Special Situation Advisors as an Investment Banking (Operations) Analyst for 2 months after his graduation.

Mahek also interned with Trudence Research as a buy-side equity research analyst for 3 months, after which he successfully passed CFA level II and joined Accrete as a Research and Intelligence Intern for 2 months and then joined Accrete as a full-time research analyst. His role here at Accrete includes researching complex financial and economic topics and providing feedback to the ML model.

Priyanka has completed her Bsc. in Finance from NMIMS. While studying, Priyanka interned as an Analyst with Angel Broking for 3 months. After her graduation, Priyanka worked as a Valuation Associate with SS&C GlobeOp where she was responsible for Independent Price Verification of hedge fund portfolios, after which she successfully cleared her CFA level II and joined Accrete as a Research and Intelligence Intern for 1 year and thereafter joined full time as a Research Analyst. Her role here included researching complex financial topics, validating outputs from the current model, and providing feedback to the ML model.

Mihir is actively involved in training Accrete’s proprietary Natural Language Processing ML models, improving its accuracy and sentiment analysis. He is also entrusted with comprehensive industry research, financial research, and analysis.

He holds an MSc in International Financial Management from the University of Surrey and a Bachelor’s degree in Management from the University of Mumbai. He passed CFA level 1 during his time at Accrete as a Research and Intelligence Intern before joining as a full-time Research Analyst.

Sana worked as a Research and Intelligence intern here at Accrete for a year along with which she completed her Master’s in Commerce with a specialization in Advanced Accounting from Mumbai University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce with a specialization in Accounting, also from Mumbai University.

Before joining Accrete, she worked as a Bank Audit intern for a year at Borkar and Muzumdar Chartered Accountants. She's now a CFA Level 2 aspirant while also working as a Research Analyst full-time with Accrete.

Sana’s role at Accrete includes researching complex financial and economic topics, collaborating with domain experts on projects, and providing feedback to the machine learning model.

Peter Bierfeldt has over 30 years of experience in information technology, security, and consulting. He has built security and privacy programs for Software as a Service companies into world-class operations. He has a strong security compliance background, a DevSecOps approach to security, and a laser focus on automation and continuous improvement.

Prior to Accrete, Peter has served as the Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Compliance for Reltio Inc. He has worked in regulated industries including pharmaceuticals, public sector, financial services, and defense.

Peter has a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Angel is our IDAAS administrator in charge of IT, life-cycle management, and Okta ID services. During his time at The Facilities Group, he established and managed an IT Team and its SOPs. Previously, he has worked in ISPs and MSPs and studied at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and at the University of Alfonso X.

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His experience from all levels of IT has prepared him to be a strong asset in forming a security team. His diverse international background in cybersecurity and IT operations makes him an excellent addition to the Accrete team.

As Director of Accrete’s R&D in India, Rahul brings an extensive background in data analytics and quantitative trading, rich technical management experience and nearly two decades of programming experience. He works closely with our director of AI Research team on the implementation of various deep learning and machine learning models.

Prior to his time at Accrete, Rahul spent nearly a decade working closely with our CEO, Prashant Bhuyan, in previous fin tech endeavors. Rahul also spent 3 years at Infosys Technologies Limited as a software engineer in its research department (SETLabs) where he worked on a patent-pending EII tool. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology and has been very passionate about markets and investing since a young age.

Rohit brings a decade of backend development experience to our Accrete team. He has deep knowledge of Core Java and assists Kiran, our lead developer, and Rahul Jindal, Head of Research and Analytics, in advancing the product development life cycle. Rohit also holds a Computer Science degree from Rajasthan University.

Kiran is a full-stack developer, currently leading development and implementation on a variety of our product suites. With a Masters degree in Computer Science from Mumbai University and more than two decades of programming experience, he has a comprehensive understanding of the Fintech domain. Kiran is also proficient in multiple programming languages (Java, C++, .NET, etc).

Abhishek Kumar is a highly motivated full stack engineer with over a decade of successful contribution in architecture, design, and implementation of products in varied domains. He also actively participates in developing the future roadmap for the products based on the requirements. He has the ability to understand complex requirements and break them down into simple implementable tasks. He also mentors other developers and is the go-to person for troubleshooting development issues.

Abhishek specializes in software development using Java technologies has good exposure to Angular and other frontend frameworks. He is certified from CDAC (formerly NCST) Mumbai. He also holds a Master in Computer Application (MCA) degree from IGNOU, New Delhi.

Arjun is currently working on developing the user interfaces of each of our product suites and helps bring our products to life. He is proficient in HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS, Node.js, AngularJS, and many more. Arjun also holds a Computer Science degree from Rajasthan University and possesses a decade of programming experience.

Rupali started her career working on one of the best programming languages for web applications. She has worked as a software developer for developing web and mobile applications in a variety of different sectors such as education, e-commerce, online billing systems, properties, lead management system, etc.

With time and exploration of data science being done currently all over the world, she developed the respective skills so that vast volumes can be analyzed at a faster rate and can provide accurate results and analysis.

She holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Khalsa College.

I have more than a decade of development experience in various technologies (both front end and back end). I work towards being a language-agnostic developer and love to involve myself in new technologies. I have previously worked on C++, Python, GoLang, and JavaScript.

I have a degree in Computer Science from Magadh University and a Master’s degree for the same from Sikkim, (Manipal University). Prior to Accrete, I have worked closely with Zeus learning, Financial Technologies, and Aries Tech Labs.

Senaea has 4+ years of experience in front-end and back-end development. She has worked with US-based clients in developing, designing, and implementing Pricing Solutions.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (BSc IT) from Mumbai University and Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA) from NMIMS University.

A Tech-Savvy DevOps Engineer and an after-hour nerd in Automobiles with around 6 years of experience in Cloud Computing before Accrete. Having a good amount of exposure to Micro-Services, IaaS & PaaS in AWS and Azure, Server-less architecture designing, and the DevOps with
CI/CD & Monitoring.

Currently AWS certified and practicing Solution Architect & DevOps on various cloud platforms. Highly enthusiastic about AI, ML, Patterns recognition, and Tasks Automation, so exploring new things daily on a Technological map.

Yash is passionate about UI/UX since the start of his career. Having knowledge of Photoshop helps him achieve pixel perfect design and development of Accrete’s products. He comes with more than 6 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ExtJS, Angular and many more.

Yash holds a diploma in Computer Science Engineering from Shri Bhagubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from K. J. College of Engineering.

Vinayak is an innovative UI developer with more than 4 years of experience in building and maintaining responsive web applications in Retail and Banking domain. He is proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like ExtJS and Angular.

Vinayak holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from K. C. College of Engineering.

Ganesh is an experienced Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience in web development using Python, Django, DRF, APIs, Flask, ORM, REST, Unit Testing, Pytest, Beatifulsoup, Web Scrapping, Python Selenium, MongoDB, MYSQL and more. He is currently working as a Python Backend Developer at Accrete. Data Processing, distributed systems, and algorithms are his areas of interest. He has completed a Master’s Degree in Design Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune.

Akshay is a Business Analyst having experience in requirement gathering and documentation.

Prior to joining Accrete, Akshay managed end-to-end project development activities starting from requirement gathering and documentation, communicating requirements to the development and QA teams, monitoring the development, participating in functional testing, and explaining the solution to end-users, helping in preparing user guide documents.

Akshay has experience in working on pricing, Trade-related, and AML solutions. Akshay holds an M.B.A and B.E. from Mumbai University

Austin Noronha is a Technical Architect having 14 years of experience in UI/UX and Backend Technologies across product and branding.

Before joining Accrete, Austin worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Rediff.com in building the next-generation email service and collaboration suite. With experience in UI/UX, B2B, Designing Functional & Test-Driven Solutions. Austin is passionate about developing easy-to-use machine learning solutions for B2B market and providing technical leadership & support to the software development team. He enjoys a good Netflix binge but can also be found cooking & baking.

Austin holds a Master’s degree in Computer Application from the University of Mumbai, India.

Having experience of 3+ years in Python and Django, and worked on LMS-based SaaS companies. Shivam is currently working as a Sr. Software Engineer at Accrete. Shivam has broad experience in JSON, APIs, Django, Web Scraping, and many more.

He has earned his B.E. from Dayananda Sagar College of Engg. (Bangalore) in Civil Engineering and his passion for coding got him here.

I am a proficient full stack developer with deep knowledge of Angular and Java, I have learned Machine Learning and its Algorithms using Python as well. Looking forward to learn new things as per the requirements of the project. Apart from the technical aspect I am a anything goes person, I don’t shy out from exploring new things and facing challenges. I am a total nerd who loves movies, shows and anime.

Shiva Muddaliar is a software developer, who has been working in the IT Industry for the past 3 years. Shiva has experience in Python Development, primarily in the area of Micro Services and ETL. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Mumbai.

Software Development professional with 5+ years of experience using Angular, Front-end Technologies, and a comprehensive understanding of Database, API Integrations.

Well acquainted with AGILE and good knowledge of Azure DevOps Board.

I have done BSC.IT from Mumbai university and after that I did one-year autonomous diploma(ADSD) in software development from MET college Bandra.

I'm currently working as a Technical Lead with Accrete, after having almost 8 years of experience in Solution Delivery, Analysis, Development, and Maintenance of B2B, SaaS-based software pricing solutions across Retail, Beverage Alcohol & Automobile verticals for US-based clients. On the technical front, I have hands-on experience in a variety of technologies including JavaScript, ExtJS, NodeJS, and SQL along with exposure to Python, MongoDB, and C++. Additionally, I possess some strong interpersonal skills along with a flexible & meticulous attitude, which helps me thrive as a team player in group environments as well as in independent, high-pressure situations.

Previously worked for a US-based Product firm, after having obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology (IT) from K.J Somaiya College of Engineering.

Sanat is a creative Web Developer with over 2 years of experience in building responsive websites in the e-learning and Fintech domains. He is proficient in HTML, CSS, and Javascript languages with knowledge of Angular 2+ frameworks, Node.js, and Express library.

Sanat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Shree. L. R. Tiwari College of Engineering, Mumbai University. He started his career with Zeus Learning as a software developer prior to joining Accrete as a UI developer. He has also worked as a freelancer to help local merchants in automating manual jobs.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. He has interned previously at Abbott Laboratories as a DevOps intern for 2 months where he gained experience with AWS technologies such as CloudFormation to write Infrastructure as a Code. He has also worked for his university’s Material Sciences and Engineering departments IT team where he has managed and created websites for the department.

Neva is a Software Developer with over two years of experience in building and maintaining web and mobile applications. She is proficient in different technologies such as Python, Django, Angular, REST APIs, Postgres, MongoDB, and more. She is currently working as a backend developer at Accrete.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Mumbai University.

My name is Ravi Poonia and I am a cyber security enthusiast. I have done graduation in computer science in 2020 from Sant longowal institute of engineering and technology, Sangrur, Punjab. I have around 2 years of experience in Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis. In my previous organization, I was working as an android reverse engineer and malware analyst at Bobble.ai, Gurgaon.

Uday is an experienced Software Developer with almost 3 years of experience in Web and Application development. At Accrete, he works as a web developer primarily in Angular and JavaScript frameworks. Before working with Accrete, Uday worked extensively in banking and insurance domains, developing back-end architectures in Java Spring and NodeJS.

Uday holds a Computer Engineering degree from SIES Graduate School of Technology, Mumbai University.

Ganesh is currently working as QA Engineer at Accrete. He has 3+ years of Experience in Software Testing including Manual and Automation. Ganesh has good knowledge of Selenium Webdriver, Core Java, API Testing, testing framework, Maven, Jenkins, and many more.

Ganesh holds an M.Tech degree from Government Technical University of Maharashtra state, a Bachelor's degree from Pune University, and a Diploma from Government Polytechnic Khamgaon.

Hello, my name is Rishi Beohar. I have around 6+ years of experience in the IT industry. I have worked on Java and advanced Java technologies. I have done my bachelor's in engineering with a specialization in Electronics and Communication. In previous organizations, I have worked as a Developer on technologies like Java, Spring, and SQL. I joined Accrete in February 2022 as a Senior Software Developer.

After earning a Master of Computer Application degree, I entered the Software Field to explore my passion for creating quality Software. For over 7 years I have been a noteworthy person in the Software Quality space. During my 7 years of Tenure, I tried my best to maintain and create a Quality Product that gives pleasure to users while using the Product.

So Apart from the software and Quality of Software I also follow some hobbies such Reading, Traveling etc.

Rohit is an experienced software developer with over 3 years of experience in back-end development using java, golang, spring framework, REST, and Postgres. Before joining Accrete, Rohit worked with GE India for 3 years in the Oil and Gas domain.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (B.Tech IT) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

Aaditya is a Software Developer with experience in building restful APIs, WebSockets, and web applications. He is proficient in Python, Django, DRF, ORM, Web Scrapping, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, MongoDB, SQL, POSTGRESQL, and Tkinter.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (BSc IT) from M.L Dahanukar, Mumbai University and a Master's degree in Information Technology (MSC IT) specializing in Data science from M.L Dahanukar, Mumbai University.

Micah Boster is Head of Partnerships at Accrete. Prior to joining, he was COO at Kaptyn, helping to transform the legacy taxi industry and enabling it to remain relevant in a rapidly changing transportation environment. Earlier, he spent eight years at Google in the Washington DC, New York, and San Francisco offices. While there, he was an early member of the Federal Enterprise Sales team, building deep relationships between Google and both civilian and military leadership across the Federal Government.

Later, he managed a global book of Google's top advertising partnerships, growing and managing complex deal structures across sectors and regions. Having extensive experience in the SaaS, AdTech, geospatial, real estate, transportation, energy, and data security spaces, he is focused on helping partners leverage the latest technology to discover new solutions to old problems.

Micah holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. He currently lives in Mamaroneck, NY with his wife and daughter. In his spare time, he enjoys table tennis, cooking, playing the drums, and scuba diving.

Luis Rodriguez is VP of Business Development at Accrete. With over 25 years of experience, Luis is a technology executive who thrives on disruption, innovation, and transformation. Luis built his experience at companies such as Siemens, Honeywell, IBM, McKinsey & Co., and Xerox PARC.

As the Vice President of Business Development, Luis was recruited to grow revenue from enterprise accounts, to innovate AI-based use cases at customer accounts, and to build an ecosystem of partnerships to expand accrete's routes to market. Luis is well suited for this role given his long background in working with many types of customers and partners, in building ecosystems, in working as a management consultant, and in his understanding of business and technology.

Luis has a Ph.D., Masters, and Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT.

George started his career in the venture capital world after leaving science academia, primarily leading the due diligence process on Biotechnology and Life Sciences investments. During his time in venture capital, George instantly saw the link between his neuroanatomical/biochemistry background and artificial intelligence in a powerful way. Years later, George was hired as the second employee at Shinrai, an AI-powered web data extraction company founded in 2019. Shinrai armed enterprise clients with AI insights derived from real-time web data at scale. George was eventually named the COO of Shinrai, leading a team of sales, marketing, and developer professionals.

In July of 2021, Shinrai was acquired by Accrete and George transitioned into his current Growth position. Leveraging his years of AI knowledge, sales experience, and operational skills, George works with the sales team at Accrete to drive new business, collaborates on marketing and product initiatives, and works extensively with the sales, marketing, and product teams within Accrete.

George holds an MS in Anatomy & Neurobiology from the Boston University School of Medicine and a BS in Biochemistry from Stonehill College. He currently lives in New York City and enjoys cooking, photography, skiing, and traveling in his spare time.

Faith is a Business Development Representative at Accrete AI. This job entails uncovering demand for Accrete’s solutions and providing first introductions through multi-touch outreach campaigns.

Her past work includes managing, staffing, and leading multiple outbound/inbound contact teams for the Admissions department at her university. She was also responsible for revamping the entire outbound/inbound department to improve multi-departmental metrics through creation/implementation of all formal processes for her specific department. Faith also wrote the official handbook for all incoming staff and led professional development conferences to coach implementation of new programs and procedures. Her work has also consisted of writing marketing content/materials to promote enrollment of private education.

Faith also has a background and worked closely with HR solutions and client onboarding/implementation at her previous role as an Implementation Coordinator.

Faith holds a B.A. in Business with a concentration in Corporate Management from Lipscomb University located in Nashville, TN.

Jason is a Director of Partnerships at Accrete where he is responsible building out the client service organization and for managing relationships with some of the most innovative companies across several sectors including entertainment, finance, collectibles, and government. Prior to joining Accrete, Jason was a Strategic Consultant at FactSet, where he oversaw the global enterprise relationship at some of the world’s largest and most dynamic financial institutions. Jason graduated from Wake Forest University with a BS in Finance and a minor in Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise.

Tom supports business development and sales efforts for Accrete’s commercial business.

Previously, he spent the past 5 years at Oracle, where he was responsible for developing and executing Cloud go-to-market strategies for net new commercial accounts. In addition, he spent time focused on expanding Oracle’s on-premise database technology footprint across existing named accounts. Prior to Oracle, Tom worked at a high growth HR tech startup, focused on growth and business development.

He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Penn State University, Smeal College of Business.

Dan supports the sales apparatus in exploring new applications for Accrete’s platform. Prior to joining Accrete, Dan represented the third generation of leadership at a mid-sized Early Education and K-12 Institution as the Executive Director & CFO and has experience launching application-based educational resources.

Dan holds a B.A. in Political Science from Franklin & Marshall College.

Justin is a Business Development Representative at Accrete AI where he supports ongoing commercial sales efforts through multi-touch outreach campaigns.

Prior to joining Accrete, Justin was a Global Partnerships Manager at TED Talks where he led the technology vertical, helping to uncover fresh perspectives from organizations looking to make an impact.

Justin holds a B.A. from Wheaton College located in Norton, MA.

Prashant’s mission has been to extend human capabilities by creating AI powerful enough to automate work requiring reading comprehension at scale. Prior to launching Accrete in 2017, Prashant spent over a decade in high-frequency trading where basic rules-based automation replaced exchange floor brokers. Prashant realized that if machines could transcend rules-based automation and learn how to read at scale, AI could free analysts to focus on more creative work.

Prashant also recognized that AI capable of learning without explicit rules-based instruction could be significantly more profitable and scaleable than traditional SaaS. Accordingly, Prashant and his core team spent a decade building a platform for continually learning AI with a focus on creating novel architectures for programmatic labeling. Since officially launching Accrete in 2017, Accrete has become one of the world’s most important dual-use AI companies, using commercial innovation to help bolster national security and defense.

Today, Accrete delivers configurable AI applications that automate complex analytical workflows at enterprise scale. Under Prashant’s leadership, Accrete has been writing the playbook on how to scale a dual-use AI company. He has built a world class team that continues to grow and execute rapidly; developed and licensed human-standard, explainable AI to a growing roster of blue-chip commercial and federal customers; and efficiently managed hyper growth.

Accrete’s solutions enable the Department of Defense to predict covert behavior from foreign adversaries seeking to influence the supply chain; the U.S. Air Force to identify vulnerabilities in microprocessor firmware; major music labels to identify superstars before competitors; benefits brokers to identify the shortest path to the hottest leads; and more.

Prashant is a graduate of Hamilton College and lives in Lower Manhattan with his wife and two children.

Bill Wall is the CEO and co-founder of Accrete AI Government, bringing commercial and Wall Street proven AI solutions to the US Government. Bill has a unique background combining elite military service and deep experience in the sale and implementation of innovative solutions that drive business transformation.

Bill has eleven years’ experience building successful teams in the IT industry. Previously, he was the Director of Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer for Barrick Gold in Argentina for two years. Before joining Barrick, he was a business development executive, operations and sales executive in the Washington DC area serving the US Government market. Bill has worked in both Fortune 500 and startup companies. His experience spans IT hardware, software, big data analytics services, geospatial software, and IT solutions reseller companies. Prior companies include EMC, Praescient Analytics, Boundless Geospatial and Flywheel Data.

Before entering the corporate world, Bill retired from the Army as a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel after twenty-two years in service. He was the founder and first commander of a unique computer network operations organization in the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). He had multiple deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen working closely with the national intelligence community to transform the way JSOC developed and shared intelligence. During his career, he also deployed many times throughout Central and South America.

Bill has a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a Master of Arts in International Relations / Latin American Studies from the University of Miami.

Brian Drake is the Federal Chief Technology Officer of Accrete.AI Government. He is responsible for the application of Accrete’s commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to the public sector. Prior to joining Accrete.AI, Drake was an Intelligence Officer within the Defense Intelligence Agency where he led the briefing team for the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary, the Undersecretary for Policy, and other “E Ring” principals. He also managed over $20M worth of projects as the agency’s first Director of Artificial Intelligence. In 2021, he was given the Federal 100 award by Federal Computer Week for his program’s achievements and work on the agency’s AI strategy. As an analyst, he led multiple teams countering threats from state and non-state actors across technology, counterintelligence, and counternarcotics topics. Before his government career, he was a Manager with Deloitte Consulting and a management consultant with Toffler Associates specializing in strategic planning, business development, collaboration consulting, technology, and innovation for commercial and government clients. He also worked as a military platforms and policy analyst for Systems Planning and Analysis and as a nuclear weapons programs analyst for DynCorp. In his personal time, Mr. Drake serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Memorial Foundation; a scholarship fund for the children of Defense Intelligence Officers killed in the line of duty. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University and a Masters from Georgetown University.

Mariah Smith is the Director of Government Affairs for Accrete AI Government. She brings a decade of legislative and government policy experience to the company. Mariah is responsible for building and maintaining the relationships with local, state, and federal entities in support of the programs and goals of Accrete and nested with the larger national AI development and governance strategy.

Mariah had a twenty-year career in the Army before transitioning to the private sector. Serving as a military police officer, she was also an FBI National Academy graduate of Session 256. During her time in the Army, she was deployed to Djibouti, Iraq, and three times to Afghanistan. She previously worked as a military legislative assistant for a New York member of the House of Representatives, as a liaison between the Army and the Appropriations Committees in Congress, and as a liaison between United States Central Command and the Armed Services Committees.

Mariah has a B.A. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University and a M.A. in Security Management from Webster University.

In her personal time, she is a councilwoman for her hometown of Stephens City, Virginia, and is the Vice-Chairman of the non-profit No One Left Behind, which assists Afghan and Iraqi allies who worked with the US government during the Global War on Terror.

Jeff Harper is the Director of Federal Sales for Accrete AI Government. As Accrete continues to rapidly scale, Jeff will serve as a member of the senior executive team responsible for building and leading the government and defense sales organization as well as positioning Accrete optimally for growth. His experience is a welcome and valuable blend of military leadership and federal sales seniority.

Jeff’s military background spans 20+ years of active and reserve Naval Aviation service in both tactical and unmanned communities. Prior to joining Accrete he held sales leadership roles for 10+ years with Smiths Detection, Inc., a security technology OEM, where he acquired expertise that ranged from bringing new technology to market to winning large multi-million-dollar Programs of Record.

He remains active in the Navy Reserve, is the proud father of three beautiful girls, and works remotely from Charleston, SC.

Erin Gallagher is the Director of Business Development for Accrete AI Government.  As Accrete continues its success in the Government market, Erin will be responsible for creating business strategies, identifying and penetrating new markets, and building the partnerships and alliances that will assist in generating revenue. Her experience and past success round out a strong senior executive team.  

Erin has over 15 years of experience working within and supporting the U.S. government.  Throughout her career, she has focused on bringing the best of innovative technology to government end-users as quickly as possible to ensure critical mission success.  In business, Erin has been successful in both expanding the portfolio of businesses and building capabilities from nascent to full service offerings. 

Erin has a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Syracuse University and a PhD in Environmental Science and Oceanography from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. 

Erin lives in Arlington, VA with her husband, their two sons, and Chewbacca the German Shepherd. She is still active in the rowing community as a referee for USRowing and WorldRowing. 

Zachary Smith is program manager of Accrete AI Government’s implementations of Argus, an explainable strategic intelligence gathering product that detects anomalies buried in information
complexity.

Zach joined Accrete Government after more than 23 years as an Air Force officer, with the preponderance of his time as a special agent. In multiple roles, he focused on countering human, technical, and cyber-based threats affiliated with industrial espionage, technical surveillance, advanced targeting, and terrorism. He led investigative units, managed organizational policy and performance management, and authored strategies for Department of Defense elements as a joint qualified officer.

A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Zach earned two masters degrees related to international security, graduated from the Defense Language Institute, and completed programs in planning, strategy, and leadership.

Maggie is a Digital Strategist with a focus on product, brand, marketing management, and marketing analytics.

In her previous role prior to joining Accrete, Maggie was managing a team of marketers and web designers at a New York-based marketing agency and was leading client projects across industries. She is passionate about keeping up with the latest innovations and data-driven marketing.

Maggie holds a B.S. in Economics and Marketing from University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and an MBA in Finance from Adelphi University.

Chris has over 15 years of industry experience. Prior to Accrete, Chris was a Director on the Technology investment banking team at Perella Weinberg Partners, where he advised software clients in the areas of enterprise applications, intelligent automation, and data analytics. Chris began his software coverage as a member of the Goldman Sachs Software Equity Research team focusing on business intelligence, ERP, product life cycle management, and customer relationship management vendors.

He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in International Relations, and spent his junior year studying Mandarin in Taiwan. Chris is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Max is a researcher and writer with experience in applied history, political philosophy, and technology. Having graduated from Stanford University in 2020, his perspective has been molded by the landscape ushered in by Artificial Intelligence, economic stagnation, and crisis of governance of recent years. Max is a voracious reader, adventurer, and scholar of the intersection of governance and technology.

He holds a Bachelors of Arts in American History from Stanford University.

Lawrence has over 25 years of experience building and leading world-class finance teams, in executive leadership, and in corporate strategy, spanning the SaaS, fintech, payments, and blockchain industries. He joins us from Paxful, a P2P bitcoin marketplace, where he was the Senior Vice President, Head of Finance, and revenues increased 60% during the first year of his tenure. Prior he held several senior finance roles, including at Dataminr, a SaaS company also in the AI/machine learning sector, as well as at MasterCard, where he served in various business unit finance officer roles.

He began his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and subsequently was an equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley covering the technology, media, and Internet sectors. He graduated Harvard cum laude with a major in Economics, where he also became proficient in Japanese. He grew up in Short Hills, NJ and currently resides in midtown west Manhattan.

Gary N Villatoro is currently the Controller for Accrete LLC. Mr. Villatoro joined Accrete LLC in October of 2021 in his current position and is responsible for all accounting matters for the Company and its subsidiaries including Financial Reporting, General Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cost Accounting and related internal controls functions.

Prior to joining Accrete, Gary has served as a Consultant and Controller for various companies in the Private Equity, Tech, and Financial Services industries. Gary spent approximately 18 years with KPMG. During his career at KPMG, he managed the Northeast Region Finance and Accounting team in supporting all 3 service lines (Audit, Tax, Advisory) and was part of the global systems implementation team.

Gary received his BS from Fordham University in 1992 with a concentration in accounting.

Mayank is a hedge fund veteran and brings two decades of practical experience running organizations to our team. As a former fund manager, he recognized the accelerating need for market participants to adapt traditional methods for extracting alpha to the exponential growth in unstructured data. His desire to help facilitate that change led him to co-found Accrete.

Prior to Accrete, Mayank’s experience includes launching a successful hedge fund focused on global convertible arbitrage, co-managing a convertible bond sales and trading desk for a broker-dealer, building and co-managing an Asia-focused capital markets business and managing large arbitrage portfolios for three hedge funds. Mayank began his career at GE Capital where he gained significant financial and operating experience across multiple business lines. Mayank also holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from New York University.

Michael has global responsibility for Accrete’s legal affairs. He previously served as General Counsel and Head of Legal at Ocrolus, a New York-based fintech document automation company. Before Ocrolus, Michael was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Visa, prior to which he had the same position at Goldman Sachs. Michael joined Goldman from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where he had worked as a corporate associate in its New York, Moscow, and London offices.

Michael is admitted to practice law in New York and California. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his law degree from Harvard, from which he also holds a master’s in public policy. He was a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet in the Southern District of New York.

Jason brings with him over 25 years of special operations experience in the US Air Force as a Colonel. Most recently, he managed a $1Bn global special operations portfolio as the Deputy Director of Air Force special operations consisting of 19,000 personnel, a worldwide fleet of 270+ aircraft, and $17Bn in assets, including all combat operations. He swiftly corrected an enduring $127mm underperformance trend within 6 months of his appointment as Deputy Director with strong leadership guidance, stewarding the restructuring of performance metrics and the organization’s executional focus on those metrics. Prior to that position, he was the commander of all US Air Force special operations in the Asia-Pacific, leading over 1,000 personnel and a fleet of 26 aircraft, along with $1.8Bn in assets.

In 2018, Jason’s team led the internationally-acclaimed rescue of a Thai youth soccer team that was trapped in the flooded Tham Luong cave system, and in 2019 he led a rare circumnavigation of the Taiwan Strait separating China and Taiwan with special operations aircraft. Jason is an accomplished pilot who qualified as a Weapons Instructor, the Air Force equivalent of “Top Gun”, where he was given the honorific call sign, “Diesel”.

As the Director of Operations, Alex creates and implements best-in-class business systems to streamline Accrete's business expansion and delivery of innovative enterprise AI solutions.

As a strategic operations leader, Alex drives Accrete's operations, performance management, finance, legal, and talent acquisition initiatives.

Alex earned a degree from Furman University in Business Management and Finance.

Bianca is the Executive Assistant & Office Manager at Accrete. With over 13 years of experience in high-volume environments, Bianca skillfully manages administrative duties and client relations for the C-suite team.

In addition to her role at Accrete, Bianca is actively involved with CASA NYC where she volunteers her time advocating for children in the foster care system.