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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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Michael Thiemann (Chief Executive Officer) |
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Krishna Gopinathan (Chief Operating Officer) |
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Purna Patnaik (Chief Financial
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Steve Biafore (EVP Analytics) |
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Ted Crooks (VP Products) |
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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
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Michael Thiemann (Chief Executive
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Michael Thiemann assumed the CEO role at Global Analytics in 2009. He brings nearly 30 years of experience in the field of analytics automation, most recently as CEO of Investment Science Corporation. He was previously the CEO of HNC Financial Solutions and eHNC. The HNC Software IPO was acknowledged by Time magazine, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times as one of the top 10 IPOs of 1995. Companies led by Mr. Thiemann have provided breakthrough analytics products considered extremely difficult to automate: real-time fraud identification, internet transaction analysis, asset appraisal, and insurance fraud. Mr. Thiemann led teams that provided the first PC-controlled instrument systems, the first Microsoft Windows commercial applications, and the first real-time, client-server financial systems.
Mr. Thiemann received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was awarded Baker Scholar and Century Club honors. He also holds an M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering with distinction from Stanford University where he received the Senior Achievement Award. Mr. Thiemann has served on over a dozen commercial and non-profit boards. |
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Krishna
Gopinathan (Chief Operating
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Krishna is currently the COO of Global Analytics. Krishna served as CEO of Global Analytics from 2003 to 2009. He attracted technical and management talent in the US and India, led the development of the core technology and products, and made sales to key customers and partners. Prior to Global Analytics, Krishna was the founder and CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, an HR analytics firm focused on resume searching and matching. Before that, Krishna was the Vice President of Fraud Control Systems at HNC Software Inc., where he led the fraud products division, HNC's most successful business and the driving force of its IPO. Initially, Krishna worked as the inventor and technical leader of Falcon Fraud Manager ®. 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 Financial
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Purna is currently CFO 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 Corporation’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 Software and it’s successor,Fair Isaac Corporation, Steve was a co-inventor on the Falcon Fraud Manager ® (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 Fraud Manager ® 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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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 Corporation 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 Software/Fair Isaac Corporation has been using for the past 13 years to power many of its analytic products, most notably the Falcon Fraud Manager ®. 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 Corporation. 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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Falcon
Fraud Detection Patent
Falcon Fraud Manager ® is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation in the United States and other countries. |
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