Meet Our Award-Winning Team

Sanjay Chopra

Co-Founder & CEO
Award-winning CEO and serial technology entrepreneur; expertise in AI and e-commerce spanning over two decades
Licensed Intellions IP to Google; former executive at Giant Eagle, IBM; Board member Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Graduated with B. Tech in Computer Science from MANIT, Master in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon

Eric Nyberg, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist
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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.

Alexander Hauptmann, PhD

AI Consultant, Image and Video Scientist
CMU research professor in multimedia analysis and indexing, speech recognition, interfaces to multimedia system and language

Pete Minnelli

Partner & SVP, Creative
20+ years 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

Jill Yahnite

Outsourced VP of Sales
Leader of Sales organizations for over 15+ years, driving organizational growth; Board Member of Accelerated Corporate Growth (ACG).
BS, St. John Fisher College; MBA Rochester Institute of Technology

Cody Clements

Business Development Executive
8+ years of experience in the fields of education and sales.
B.S. in Psychology, Saint Vincent College; B.A. in Theology, Saint Vincent College; M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Utah

Uxue Zurutuza

Senior Data Scientist
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

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

Justin Waltrip

Data Scientist
Lead data scientist for MoleculeAI product. Experienced in molecular property prediction for drug discovery and natural language processing for information extraction from unstructured data.
Studying computer science and applied mathematics at Johns Hopkins University with a focus in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Jagriti Pandey

Senior Product Manager
Former Robotics Process Automation SME at Caterpillar Inc. 3+ years of experience in Change Management and AI-Powered Process Automation.
BE Computer Science, BMSCE; Master of Information Systems Management, CMU

Francis Carayol

Senior Developer
15+ 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 9+ years of experience designing and building web apps, APIs, data pipelines and processing engines, and AI-based solutions
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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
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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.
Development & Engineering Partners
Our world-class development partner is located in Jaipur, India. These highly skilled team members bring deep expertise in building and implementing enterprise level products and applications.
ADVISORY BOARD

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.
Expertise with various modalities used for diagnosis and treatment of patients across the continuum, in radiology, imaging, interventional x-ray, and patient care.

Parijat Agarwal

Co-Founder & COO Metacube focusing on new product development and technology innovations
20+ years of Technology Experience; graduated from IIT Delhi in 1994 with a degree in Computer Science.

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 committed to maximizing growth