Our advisory board is composed of professionals from a wide range of sectors, each offering their unique expertise to our company. They bring extensive knowledge in fields such as economics, data science, technology, and healthcare. The group includes authors, academics, experienced executives, and innovation leaders, all of whom enrich our organization with their distinct perspectives and experiences.

Sandy Carter

As one of the USA’s foremost authorities on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, Sandy Carter has been a notable expert working with AI since 2013 and with Blockchain since 2019. She has had a distinguished career holding leadership positions as a Chief Operations Officer, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Sales Officer working for Amazon Web Services and IBM.

Sandy is a pioneer and at the forefront of AI and other leading-edge technology driving innovation, product development, and capturing new sales markets. Sandy’s achievements have been globally recognized earning numerous awards including being named WLDA’s The AI Executive Champion of the Year, Business Transformational Leader of the Year, CNN Top 10 Women in Tech, Top 10 Leader in Responsible AI, and the Most Influential Sales Leader, to name a few.

Buell Duncan

Buell Duncan is a technology executive, active as board director and senior advisor for emerging software companies. He was General Manager and CMO for a number of IBM businesses including Global Software, Cloud, Data and AI organizations.

He was a leader in helping to establish the hybrid cloud business. Buell has been a senior executive for more than 24 years and was instrumental in expanding IBM’s partner ecosystem.

Nelson Hsu

Nelson Hsu is a high-tech industry veteran having held many executive roles in product management, product marketing, strategy and business development. He is currently the Red Hat Product Marketing Director for the Ansible Business Unit. He leads partner initiatives in the areas of Generative AI and Automation, specifically with System Integrators, Hyperscalers and Strategic Partners.

Nelson has an extensive background leading product and business development teams with IaaS/PaaS and availability and storage including verticals such as financial services, telecom and health sciences.

Scott Cunningham

Scott Cunningham is the author of Causal Inference: the Mixtape.  He is also the proprietor of Mixtape Sessions, an education platform that teaches workshops on causal inference and related topics whose mission is to “democratize causal inference”. Cunningham is a public policy scholar and professor of economics at Baylor University where he is recognized for his research on health and labor economics, particularly mental healthcare, abortion policy, drug policy and sex work.

Paul Hünermund

Paul Hünermund is the co-founder of causalscience.org, a platform for fostering knowledge exchange between industry and academia on topics related to causal data science.

Dr. Hünermund’s research has been published in Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and Harvard Business Review, among others. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Causal Inference and on the executive team of the Technology and Innovation Management division at the Academy of Management.

Nick Huntington-Klein

Nick Huntington-Klein is an author and renowned industry expert on econometrics and causal inference. His work includes developing methods to disentangle cause and effect and helping to apply the methods in many different academic and business settings. He has authored several widely-circulated documents on causal inference including the book "The Effect". Nick is currently an assistant professor of economics at Seattle University and devotes significant time to teaching how causal inference methods work to a broader audience of academics, students, data scientists, and businesspeople.

Dave Bartlett

Dave Bartlett has been a C-suite executive and technology leader for major corporate organizations serving as Chief Technology Officer for Panasonic Avionics, GE Current, and GE Aviation. Prior to that, he was a VP of IBM Software Development, and IBM Research focused on autonomic self-managing systems. In addition to his advanced degrees and industry recognition around IoT and digital transformation, he has recently earned formal certifications from MIT for both AI and Cyber Security.

Evren Eryurek

Evren Eryurek is Director of Product Management for Google’s Cloud’s Data Analytics platform. Prior to joining Google, he was the SVP & Software Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare. Evren began his GE career at GE Transportation, where he served as General Manager of the Software and Solutions business. Prior to that, Evren was with Emerson Process Management group for over 11 years, where he held several leadership positions and was responsible for developing new software-based growth technologies. Evren holds a master’s and doctorate in Nuclear Engineering, holds over 60 US patents, and is the author of the book titled “Data Governance: The Definitive Guide

Boris Sobolev

Boris Sobolev is a Canadian healthcare researcher. He is the author of "Waiting Time Data Analysis in Health Services Research and Healthcare Evaluation with Computer Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Applications", and is the editor-in-chief of the Health Services Research series published by Springer Science+Business Media. Sobolev studied applied mathematics at Tomsk State University, received his PhD in applied statistics from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989, and completed postdoctoral training at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria in 1990. In 2008, he moved to the University of British Columbia, Canada, as a professor in the School of Population and Public Health.

Paul Bleicher

As Principal at Evident Health Strategies, Paul Bleicher, MD, PhD, is a consultant, advisor, and Board member to healthcare and life science businesses, internationally. He works with private equity investments in healthcare and life science IT/data as an executive partner and with pre-seed startup companies through his work as a founding advisor at Petri. Prior to these roles, he was the chief executive officer of OptumLabs, an open, collaborative research and innovation center founded by Optum and Mayo Clinic to accelerate improvements in patient care and value through clinical, policy, and product innovation driven by new insights from big data.

Alan F. Nugent

Alan F. Nugent, a seasoned tech executive, has served as CTO for multinational corporations including CA Technologies, Novell, and Xerox. His most notable recent role was SVP for Oracle's Cancer Research Cloud project, focusing on accelerating personalized medicine research. Currently, he is the managing partner at Palladian Partners, a firm tackling global healthcare challenges.

Known for his aptitude for technology transformation, Al employs a holistic approach to drive product evolution and address people and process challenges. He's actively involved in advising technology and healthcare startups, serving on the board of Jaxon.ai, and advising Geminos.ai and Marlborough Street Partners. He has co-authored Big Data for Dummies and was the lead technical editor for Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics.