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| Global Analytics team has an unrivaled track-record in the successful deployment of analytic solutions. Members of the Global Analytics team designed, developed and deployed some of the earliest and most successful analytics solutions in the world.
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Krishna Gopinathan (Chief Executive
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Purna Patnaik (Chief Operating
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Steve Biafore (EVP Analytics) |
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Ted Crooks (VP Products) |
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Dave Tiezzi (VP Business Development) |
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Chris deBoer (VP Business Development) |
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Craig Nies (VP Software Development) |
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Venkatesh Raman (Chief Technical
Consultant) |
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Martin L. William (Senior Technical
Consultant) |
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Krishna
Gopinathan (Chief Executive
Officer) |
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Krishna is currently the CEO of Global
Analytics. Previously, Krishna was the founder and CEO of Burning
Glass Technologies. He raised the initial capital for the company,
attracted technical and management talent, led the development of
the core technology and products, and made sales to key customers.
Prior to Burning Glass, Krishna was the Vice President of Fraud
Control Systems at HNC, where he led the
Falcon division,
HNC's most successful business and the driving force of its IPO.
Initially, as inventor and technical leader of
Falcon, and later
as general manager of the fraud and risk management business, he led
the business from 0 to $40 million, and from 1 to 140 employees.
Before HNC, Krishna held positions in the Symbolic Computation
Group, University of Waterloo, and at Bell Northern Research (now
NorTel), where he was a Member of Scientific Staff. Krishna holds a
Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo,
where he specialized in graph theoretic algorithms. |
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Purna
Patnaik (Chief Operating
Officer) |
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Purna is currently COO of Global Analytics.
Over his 30 year career, he has led numerous projects involving
large datasets and analytical systems. He specialized in mathematical modeling and fluid mechanics, including
geothermal reservoir modeling, weapon effects, modeling of fluidized
beds, high-speed combustor flows, flow around submerged bodies, flow
over complex terrain, spill and safety studies of heavier-than-air
gases, dispersion of air-borne pollutants, and flow in porous media.
Also, Purna was a member of the design team for the successful
Stars & Stripes America's Cup effort that brought the Cup back
to the US. Purna has a B.Tech degree from IIT, Kharagpur (India) and
an M.S and Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. He has
published over 80 articles in technical journals and proceedings. |
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Steve
Biafore (Executive Vice President of Analytics) |
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Steve is currently EVP of Analytics at Global Analytics. Previously, Steve served as Vice President of Fair Isaac’s
Healthcare Analytics group. Steve led this group from its inception at HNC Software,
in 1998, growing the business unit to over 25 employees and launching several analytics products with sustained growth and profitability.
During his 14-year tenure at HNC/Fair Isaac Steve was an inventor on
the Falcon (credit-card fraud) patent and several technology patents
in the area of healthcare analytics. As a senior scientist at
General Dynamics, Steve designed and developed numerous analytic
models for defense applications. Steve holds a BS in Mathematics from Ohio
State University and a MS in Computer Science from the University of
California, San Diego. |
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Ted
Crooks (VP Products) |
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Ted is currently focused on developing new lines
of business and consulting at Global Analytics. Until 2007, Ted served as Vice President, Global Fraud Solutions
for Fair Isaac Corporation, the largest supplier of fraud detection
systems to the worldwide financial services industry. He was also a
co-founder of Burning Glass Technologies and part of the early
Falcon team at HNC Software. While at HNC, Ted also started the
telecom fraud group and headed creation of new products. Ted is the
author of three internationally distributed books on computer
science topics and inventor of several patents in robotics, natural
language applications and fraud detection systems. He also has
significant prior experience in advertising and education. Ted
graduated from Stanford University where he studied economics and
computer science. |
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Dave Tiezzi (VP Business Development) |
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Dave has over 18 years of experience in sales, business development and alliance management in the analytics and enterprise software industries. He was most recently with Fair Isaac, where served as the Client Partner responsible for developing and closing strategic business opportunities for its Fraud Management Solutions group.
Dave has also served in senior leadership roles in both venture-backed and publicly held companies including Vice President of Business Development at Baan, Group Manager of Global Alliances at Sybase, Vice President of Business Development at Xmology, and Director of Affiliate Information Systems at the Coldwell Banker Corporation. Dave holds a B.A. in Mathematics from California State University, Long Beach.
For more information on how Dave and the Global Analytics team can help you gain insight into your data to make better business decisions, contact him directly dave@global-analytics.com. |
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Chris deBoer (VP Business Development) |
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Chris has over 15 years experience in sales, client partnerships and key account management. His experience has focused on technology solution sales comprising software, services, and analytics. Chris’ targeted markets have included many industries including financial services, telecommunications, retail, pharmaceuticals and consumer products.
Chris joined Global Analytics after spending a successful tenure at Fair Isaac where he was most recently responsible for managing a team of industry professionals tasked with maintaining and growing relationships with Fair Isaac's five largest customers. Chris also developed a team-based, relationship-driven sales model with a focus on gaining deeper relationships across the client base. Chris holds a MSEE and BSEE from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
For more information on how Chris and the Global Analytics team can help you gain insight into your data to make better business decisions, contact him directly Chris.deBoer@global-analytics.com.
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Craig Nies (VP Software Development) |
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Craig has over 17 years of software development experience, including his work as the primary architect and lead-developer on the creation of the processing engine that HNC/Fair Isaac has been using for the past 13 years to power many of its analytic products, most notably the Falcon product. These products have saved companies billions of dollars over the years by detecting credit card fraud worldwide.
Prior to joining GA, Craig was the Senior Director, Healthcare and Originations Product Development for Fair Isaac. Not only did Craig develop software to allow neural network models to work in high speed, robust, multi-platform production environments, but, he was also responsible for managing a team of software engineers, QA engineers, statisticians, and operations support staff in both the U.S. and India. Craig holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego. |
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Venkatesh
Raman (Chief Technical
Consultant) |
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Venkatesh has over 15 years of
experience in algorithm development. His special expertise is in
designing space efficient representations for large data sets and
efficient algorithms for computationally hard problems. He has
published several research papers in leading international journals
and conferences. Venkatesh has an M.Sc. (Mathematics) degree
from IIT Kanpur, M. Math (Combinatorics and Optimization) and PhD
(Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has
been a faculty at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
since 1991, where he is currently a Professor. |
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Martin
L. William (Senior Technical
Consultant) |
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Martin has over 10 years of
research experience in the fields of Statistical Inference and
Prediction. His current research interests include multivariate
analysis and statistical modeling of manpower systems. He has
published several research papers in leading international journals
and conference proceedings. Martin received his M.Sc and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Madras, India. He has been a
faculty member, since 1984 in the Department of Statistics, Loyola
College. He is very active in
research community and has guided several graduate students for projects
involving statistical data analysis in various fields. |
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