About iSENTIUM

• Team

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  Gautham Sastri, Chief Executive Officer

  Gautham is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and investor. He previously founded Terrascale Technologies (acquired by Rackable Systems, now SGI) and Maximum Throughput (acquired by Avid). Terrascale's clients included several classified government agencies and also Fortune 500 companies such as Shell, Raytheon and ConocoPhillips. During his tenure at Maximum Throughput, Gautham was invited to join Intel's Server Advisory Council, which was tasked with providing key inputs to Intel's server technology roadmap. Prior to Maximum Throughput, he provided consulting services to various government agencies in Europe. From 1988 to 1996, he was a senior member of the technical staff for NEC Corporation's supercomputer division and helped set several world records in computational performance. Gautham has published numerous technical papers and has been an invited speaker at many conferences and forums. He holds two patents in the field of scalable storage and has co-authored four pending patents in the field of sentiment analysis.

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  Sameer Gupta, Chief Operating Officer

  Sameer joined iSENTIUM as the Chief Operating Officer in 2014. Prior to this, Sameer was the COO for Global electronic trading and Americas high touch and program trading equities business at JPMorgan. Previously, he served in business development and product management roles at NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology business of NYSE Euronext. Before that, Sameer worked at Goldman Sachs in multiple roles including a technology strategy position where he advised internal and external clients on emerging trends in technology investing. He started at Goldman Sachs writing software in C++ and Java and is still passionate about Unix and Perl scripting. Sameer has a Masters in business administration from Harvard Business School, a Masters in information systems from Carnegie Mellon and a Bachelors in computer science from National Institute of Technology in India.

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  George Davies, Chief Data Officer

  George holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Queen's University and brings a unique blend of Wall Street experience, analytical skills, and technical aptitude to iSENTIUM. Over the last 15 years, George has built up an impressive track record of developing innovative quantitative and technical solutions across a diverse set of environments. George has an extensive knowledge of analytics, data, and infrastructure and applies a bottom line focus to continually maximize their utility and collective value.

  Prior to joining iSENTIUM, George was a Quantitative Analyst at UBP Asset Management where he led a data centralization effort, developed new Hedge Fund analysis tools, and vetted prospective Hedge Fund managers. Previously, he worked at ART Advisors researching and implementing Statistical Arbitrage trading strategies. Prior to ART Advisors George was a Quantitative Analyst at several trading/investment firms where he was involved in modeling a wide array of asset classes, sourcing data, and building and maintaining infrastructure.

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  Dr. Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Chief Technology Officer

  Anna Maria is a postdoctoral scholar from MIT and a visiting scientist at M.I.T. and Harvard. She is also Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Associate Professor of the Cognitive Computation Program at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She is the co-author of 2 patents, has received numerous awards and has been designated a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Di Sciullo has published 18 books and over 150 papers during her career and has received research grants in excess of $8.5 Million. Her work in theoretical linguistics, and in particular in the asymmetry of natural language gave rise to MIT Press Oxford University press publications. Her work in Natural Language Processing led to the formulation of the Asymmetry Recovering Parser, providing deterministic parses for linguistic expressions. She also engineered a search engine sensitive to asymmetric relations, which has been used by the Government of Quebec to search and retrieve online legal information. Her recent work in Language and mathematics led to the engineering of a sentiment mining system based on a compositional calculus applied on asymmetric relations. She founded the Federation on Natural Language Processing, which brings together main actors in the area of theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics and information technology. More recently, she also founded the International Network on Biolinguistics bridging biology, linguistics, and Natural Language Processing.

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  Malik Corbett, Director of Sales

  Malik Corbett is a seasoned sales professional with over 10 years in the market data industry. Malik has worked with some of the most sophisticated investors on Wall Street as a former senior sales representative at Bloomberg. Prior to joining iSENTIUM, Malik managed the North American business relationships for technology expense management provider MDSL.

  Malik graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelors Degree. He played football for the Hofstra Pride as a starting defensive end and in 1999 he helped the team win the prestigious Lambert Cup Award. Malik also played professionally as a linebacker/running back for three teams in the Arena Football League.