our 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

One of the world’s leading cognitive computing data scientists

Academic consultant for IBM Watson since 2007

Developed SmartCognitives™ Decision Management System

From its inception in 2004 until 2022, Eric supported the MCDS Program as founding co-Director and later Director.

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

Raminder Dhiman

Senior Product Manager

3 years of client acquisition and client management experience; Strong prioritization skills and analytical ability

B. Tech Mechanical, Punjabi University; MBA, UBS Panjab; Information Systems Management, Duquesne University

Prachi Dhiman

Product Manager

10 years in Investment Banking Operations and 2 years of Product Management experience

Bachelor’s in Finance, UMass Amherst

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

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

Aniket Trivedi

Senior Software Engineer

2+ years of Software Development experience; project experience with Machine Learning and Data Science

BE Computer Science, University of Pune; MS School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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

Vishal Dhiman

Senior AI Product Consultant

10+ years of experience in Technology Leadership and Product Management

BS Computer Science, UMASS Amherst; MBA, Tepper School of Business, CMU

Brian Urban

Healthcare Business Development

10+ years of experience in Market Development for next generation digital health products

MBA, Waynesburg University; MS, Exercise Physiology, California University of Pennsylvania

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.

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

we are leading researchers in cognitive computing and machine intelligence with deep expertise across multiple industries