Team

George holds an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University and a BEng/MSc in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College.

He has been involved in trading and data intensive quantitative investment management for over 15 years working in Europe and the United States for UBS, Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, MAN Group & Integral Capital Management.

An active serial entrepreneur, he is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mentat Innovations.

Christoforos studied mathematics in Cambridge University, Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh University, and holds a PhD in Statistics from Imperial College London.

He spent several years in academic research, as a Research Fellow at Cambridge University and an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London. He has extensive consulting and software development experience in streaming data analysis in cutting-edge areas including cybersecurity, online advertising, and social network analytics.

He was an initial co-Founder of Mentat Innovations and currently the Chief Scientific Advisor focusing on Artificial Intelligence.

Mobile and backend infrastructure expert, with deep experience in strategically leveraging mobile dynamics and cloud infrastructure.

Thano’s apps are used by over 1 million users in iOS and Android. He holds an M.Sc Electrical Engineering from KTH Sweden.

David Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London, and Chief Scientific Advisor to Winton Capital Management.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a recipient of the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society. He has served (twice) as President of the Royal Statistical Society, and is on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority. He has published 300 scientific papers and 26 books. He has broad research interests in areas including classification, data mining, anomaly detection, and the foundations of statistics. His latest book, The Improbability Principle, appeared in February 2014.

Professor Hand is the Chairman of the Mentat Innovations Advisory Board.

Professor Nick Jennings, CB, FREng, FEEE, FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP is the Vice-Provost for Research at Imperial College, where he also holds a Chair in Artificial Intelligence in the Departments of Computing and in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

He was previously the Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. He is an internationally recognised authority in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cybersecurity.

Professor Jennings is a member of our Advisory Board.

Graham has an MA in mathematics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After a brief period in Operational Research, Graham has spent his working life in the credit industry.

He first worked for GE and then TSB before founding, with seven others, the credit scoring arm of the credit bureau Infolink. In 1988 he joined Scorex, a credit scoring consultancy and helped build it into a 300 headcount, GBP 30m turnover company before its eventual sale to Experian in 2003. Graham has served as the CEO of Experian and since 2006 has been involved with Scoresoft Group, a company which specialises in investing in credit bureau, lending and analytics businesses globally.

Graham is a member of our Advisory Board.

Fabrizio holds a Degree in Economics with High Honours from University of Rome, La Sapienza. He has more than 20 years experience in Finance.

After working for investment banks such as Lehman Brothers and HSBC, he moved to the Alternative Investment industry serving as capital raising officer for main hedge funds both in London and NYC.

He maintains a wealth of contacts with institutional investors such as Sovereign Wealth Funds, Private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds, Family Offices and Pension Funds.

Fabrizio is a member of our advisory board.