executive team

Sanjay Chopra

Co-Founder & CEO

Award-winning CEO and serial technology entrepreneur

Licensed Intellions IP to Google; Board member Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Former executive at Giant Eagle, IBM

Eric Nyberg, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist

One of the world’s leading cognitive computing data scientists

Original developer on IBM Watson project, scientific advisor for Augmedix, Frontiers Market, and Meltwater

From 2004 through 2022, Eric served as co-Director and Director of CMU's MCDS Program.

Parijat Agarwal

Advisor

Co-Founder & COO Metacube focusing on new product development and technology innovations

25+ years of Technology Experience

sales and PRODUCT team

Pete Minnelli

Partner & SVP, Creative

Extensive experience in branding, identity and UX design and development.

Leads Cognistx creative, UX and marketing teams with a focus on human-centered design and user engagement

Jagriti Pandey

lead Product Manager

Former Robotics Process Automation SME at Caterpillar Inc. 9+ years of experience in AI, natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI.

Master of Information Systems Management, CMU

Jill Yahnite

Fractional VP of Sales

Leader of Sales organizations for over 20 years, driving organizational growth; Board Member of Accelerated Corporate Growth (ACG).

BS, St. John Fisher College; MBA Rochester Institute of Technology

data science team

Justin Waltrip

lead Data Scientist

Lead data scientist for our SQUARY.AI product. Experienced in natural language processing for information extraction from unstructured data.

BS in Computer Science with focus on AI & ML, Johns Hopkins University.

Ihor Markevych

Data Scientist

Data Scientist with work in egocentric trajectory prediction, fuzzy consensus aggregation methods and a variety of NLP fields.

MS Candidate in Computational Data Science, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

senior development and engineering team

Francis Carayol

Senior Developer

20+ years of experience as a full-stack developer using numerous programming languages and technologies

Leads WordPress development team, along with technical problem resolution for clients

Shivang Gupta

Senior Software Engineer

Principal Developer with 15+ years of experience designing and building web apps, APIs, data pipelines and processing engines, and AI-based solutions

advisory board

Uxue Zurutuza

Senior Data Scientist with experience in machine learning, deep learning, business intelligence, and analytics.

BS in CS + Business Admin, Deusto University; Dual MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering + Engineering & Technology Innovation Management, CMU

Susan Frank

President, ASF Solutions LLC

Former VP of Population Health Management, Allegheny Health Network (AHN)

Daniel McElroy

Top performing sales executive with 25+ years’ experience with leading global organizations in healthcare, including Philips Healthcare.

Alexander Hauptmann, PhD

Research Professor in the Language Technologies Institute at CMU School of Computer Science; Leader of the award-winning Informedia Digital Library.

Founder of the international advisory committee for TRECVID.

Kevin Srigley

President, Schmidt Market Research

Former Senior VP, Giant Eagle

Karen Barnes

Executive Director, Venture Cafe Winston Salem

Founding Partner, Cognistx

Darin Hayes

30+ years in business development and sales leadership

Cognistx investor and advisor

ai consultants

Loretta Coffin

Business Development Consultant

20+ years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships and relationship cultivation with C-suite executives; BS in Marketing

David Holloway

Business Development Consultant

50 years Experienced Logistics Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the propane & energy industry.

Skilled in Operations Management, Team Building, Management, Leadership, and Project Management. Strong operations professional.

Teach forecasting, routing, and logistics, as well as write programming specifications for software modifications.

Alessandro Molteni

Product Management Consultant

15+ years of experience in technology leadership and product development

Systems thinker with a keen eye for details, implications, and creative problem solving

international partners

Vikas Aggarwal

Managing Partner - APAC

25+ years of experience with Global IT majors like Wipro and domain expertise in IT, Finance, Telecom & Healthcare

Created and built successful scalable enterprises by his strategic foresight of market dynamics

Vinay Gowda

Director - Business Development

26+ years of strong sales, technical and organizational management experience

Various organizations as well as own business ventures in the IT Sector encompassing sales, operations, people management in Services, Products, Audio Video Consulting and Integration.

Meet Our Award-Winning Team