Virtido Center für Data Science & AI

Given the computational capacity available nowadays, data powers everything we do. Furthermore, data driven decision making is already the standard for an increasing number of companies regardless of their size and the industry they are operating in.

Virtido Data Science combines in-depth data and analytical know how with real life experience in bringing data to fruition for business. We help you harness your data assets through our consulting experience along with top-notch software development expertise. We also know that building a data culture and having an actionable, pragmatic data monetization strategy are areas that are pivotal, but often neglected in many organizations – and this is one of our key offerings.

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Philosophy

We accompany our clients on their journey to strategically harness and monetize their data. The Data Science Pyramid provides a high-level overview of different stages and we support our clients throughout all stages based on individual pain points.

Data Pyramid

Virtido Center für Data Science & AI Services

Data Science Potential Analysis

Data and/or Monetization Strategy

Infrastructure Set-up (Warehousing)

Visualisation

Data Science as a Service

Specific Data Science pain points

Team

Our core team has two decades of data science experience along with industry experience in the financial and insurance world, software development and management consulting.

Dr. Renu Ann Joseph

Head of Virtido Center für Data Science & AI

Experience

Founder & CEO of Luminant Analytics, Insurtech (US and Switzerland)

  • Re-insurance trend research, underwriting and pricing
  • Financial and macro-economic forecasting
  • Healthcare Economics
  • Tobacco taxation and public health research

Key competencies

  • Data Science
  • Economics
  • Business Strategy
  • Product Ideation and Strategy

Language : English

Jean-Luc Zehnder

Advisor, co-CEO Virtido

Experience
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers:
    • 5 years Management Consulting Zurich
    • 2 years M&A Advisory London
  • Investment Director Family Office
  • Since 2015 Founder / Co-CEO Virtido
Key competencies
  • Management Consulting with a digital edge
  • Development of Startups / Spinoffs from scratch
  • Enabling business models with technology

Dr. Daniel Hasler

Advisor, co-CEO Virtido

Experience
  • McKinsey: 5 years with focus Middle East & Finance
  • Credit Suisse: 5 years Head Business Development Middle East & India
  • MBA Oxford University & Ph.D. Biochemistry University of Zurich
Key competencies
  • Business building and implementation
  • Corporate governance and managerial improvement
  • Strategy and market entry
  • Emerging markets experience in broad range of sectors

Sebastian Flückiger

Advisor, CTO Virtido

Experience
  • Independent Mobile Application Developer
  • Enterprise Mobility Research at Infosys Ltd.
  • Tutor for Mobile Application Development at ETH Zurich
  • Software Development at Credit Suisse
  • M.Sc. Management Technology & Economics ETH
  • B.Sc. D-ITET ETH
Key competencies
  • Enterprise Mobility Solution Strategy
  • Software Development Project Management
  • Requirement Analysis

Khrystyna Khmilovska

Data Analyst | Research Specialist at Virtido Center for Data Science & AI

Experience:

  • Data Analyst | Research Specialist at Virtido Center for Data Science & AI
  • Data Journalist: Ukrainian Edition
  • Research Analyst: State Administration

Key competencies:

  • Data Analysis
  • Market Research
  • Project Management
  • Economics
  • Healthcare policy

 

Languages: English, German, Ukrainian, Russian

Ecosystem

Our subject matter expertise spans various fields like Computational Neuroscience, Computational Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Financial Management. Our stellar experts have worked in technology, manufacturing, financial services, banking, energy, aviation, telecom, aerospace in companies such as Swiss Re, Baloise, Google, Moody´s Analytics and UBS, amongst others. While deeply rooted in academics with ties to top- notch universities in Europe and the Americas, our co-creators are innovators at heart, having built or currently building startups, across the world. It is this indomitable spirit of innovation that drives Virtido´s Data Science Center of Competency.

Subject Matter Experts

Dr. Nitin Kumar

Dr. Nitin Kumar

Lead Data Science Instructor | Data Science Advisor

Experience

  • CEO & Data Science Advisor: Inanna Fertility (Medical Device)
  • COO & Program Manager, Data Science: Propulsion Academy Zürich
  • Lecturer: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  • Quantitative Data Scientist: Quantum Analytics
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher: University of Zürich

Key competencies

  • Data Science & Deep Learning
  • Teaching
  • Data Science Product Development
  • Management and Consulting
  • AI strategy
  • Start-up advisory

 

Languages: Hindi, English, German

Dr. Mark Rowan

Dr. Mark Rowan

Founder: Rowan Cognitive Data Science Solutions

Experience

  • Founder: Rowan Cognitive Data Science Solutions
  • Development of AI-powered Voice Intelligence
  • Consumer segmentation, churn prediction, automated outage detection for telecom
  • Cyber ​​risk detection in reinsurance contracts
  • Co-inventor on a worldwide patent on dynamic weapon allocation system for air warfare

Key competencies

  • Data science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Building Data Science Teams and launching products in startups and enterprises

 

Languages : English, German

Dr. Bruno Horta

Dr. Bruno Horta

CEO & Co-Founder: Join Analytics

Experience

  • CEO & CO-Founder: Join Analytics
  • Development and Application of Molecular Models and Computational Methods
  • Patented several analytics software packages

Key competencies

  • Data Science
  • Academic researcher authoring over 60 peer reviewed articles in computational chemistry
  • Advising Tech startups and Engineering teams worldwide

 

Languages : English, Portuguese

Dr. Gerhard Wesp

Dr. Gerhard Wesp

Owner: KISS Technologies

Experience

  • Owner: KISS Technologies (Aerospace, IoT, Robotics, Sensors, Renewable Energy)
  • Development Manager, Avionics
  • Software Engineer, Google

Key competencies

  • Data Science; Machine Learning and Computer Vision
  • Data Analysis, Modeling & Simulation, Parameter Identification Specialist
  • End to end product development
  • Management and Mentoring

 

Languages : German, English, French, Spanish

Dr. Johannes Kunz

Dr. Johannes Kunz

Data scientist: D2C, Research Fellow: University of Monash

Experience

  • Data scientist: Data2Conclusion
  • Research Fellow: Monash Business School, Center for Health Economics
  • Policy Expert: UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
  • Research Affiliate: SoDaLab, Monash University; Global Labor Organization (GLO), Department of Economics, University of Zurich
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: the University of Zurich, Department of Economics

Key competencies

  • Machine Learning and Data Science Consulting
  • Data Science Project Management
  • Data Analysis & Modeling
  • Econometrics
  • Economics
  • Teaching

 

Languages: German, English

Alberto Ribeiro Silveira

Alberto Ribeiro Silveira

Founder & CEO: Rebel Forward

Experience

  • Senior Strategist & Innovator, Insurance
  • Founder & CEO: Qimble (Switzerland)
  • Head of Group HR
  • Head of Business Development, Insurance

Key competencies

  • Human Resources
  • Corporate Innovation
  • Strategy Transformation

 

Languages : English, German

M.Sc. Vitor Horta

M.Sc. Vitor Horta

Chief Data Scientist: Join Analytics

Experience

  • Currently doing Ph.D. in AI with focus on Trustworthy AI and explaining Deep Learning Models
  • Software Engineer with experience over 10 years in digital applications, and telecom, IoT and Car Monitoring

Key competencies

  • Data science
  • Software engineering and databases

 

Languages : English, Portuguese, Italian

Magdalena Surówka

Magdalena Surówka

Freelance Data Scientist

Experience

  • Freelance Data Scientist: Aviation Fatalities, Geospatial Analysis for Doctors & Toxic Content Detection in social media
  • Data Science Advisor: Kickstart Innovation
  • Guest Lecturer: Propulsion Academy in Zurich
  • Quant Engineer: Financial Services

Key competencies

  • Machine Learning and Data Science
  • Data Modeling
  • Algorithm Development
  • Teaching

 

Languages: English, French, Polish, German, Spanish

Aldo Lamberti

Aldo Lamberti

Co-founder & CEO Syntheticus

Experience

  • Co-founder & CEO: Syntheticus
  • Synthetic Test Data Consultant: Helsana Insurance Company Ltd.
  • Operational Marketing Manager: Peugeot Switzerland
  • Product Manager: Nissan & Infiniti/ Credits commercial products
  • Owner Manager: Lambo Ltd.

Key competencies:

  • Data Science
  • Machine & Deep Learning
  • Data visualization
  • Marketing & Sales

 

Languages: German, Spanish, Italian, English, French

Rebecca Meldrum

Rebecca Meldrum

Independent Aviation Sustainability and AI consultant

Experience

  • CEO & Founder: Greener Clarity
  • Guest Lecturer: ETH in Mobilität der Zukunft
  • Independent External Expert: European Aviation Safety Agency
  • Engine MRO Capability Stand Up Manager: RUAG Aviation
  • Project Manager AIR 5428: Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
  • General Systems Project Manager & NATO Interface: Panavia Aircraft
  • Service Delivery & Engineering Project Manager: BAE Systems

Key Competencies

  • Sustainability enhancement
  • AI Analytics for Aerospace; sustainability, and support applications
  • Business & Industry transformation
  • Circular Economy
  • Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Solutions for Aerospace

 

Languages: English, German

Dr. Ilker Aslan

Dr. Ilker Aslan

Insurance consultant | Economist | Underwriter

Experience:

  • Re/insurance consultant
  • Treaty Underwriter/ Financial Analyst/: Swiss Re
  • Finance Specialist: SIX Securities Services
  • Senior Financial Reporting Analyst: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
  • Stagiaire at the EPP-EPD group: European Parliament

Key competencies:

  • Financial Services
  • Re/insurance
  • Underwriting
  • Economics
  • Business Development
  • Project Management

 

Languages: English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Greek

Mentors

Patricia Kroondijk

Patricia Kroondijk

Innovation And Strategy Director

Experience

  • Strategy and Business Development Director: Hitachi Europe
  • Fintech Strategy Manager: Hitachi America Financial Innovation Lab
  • Innovation Program Director: Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator
  • Project Portfolio Controller: Folksam, Sweden´s largest client-owned insurance company
  • Head of Business Development and Knowledge Management Advisory: PWC

Key competencies

  • Business Model Development and Portfolio Management
  • Quantitative Analytics
  • Design thinking
  • Change Management
  • Entrepreneurship and ventures

 

Languages: Dutch, English, Swedish, French, German

Roland Voggenauer

Roland Voggenauer

Associate partner at Big Four Company

Experience:

  • Associate partner at Big Four Company
  • Co-Founder & Chief Actuary: ONE Insurance
  • Director, Motor EMEA: Swiss Re
  • Head of Product & Pricing: Allianz Direct

Key competencies:

  • Actuarial Science
  • Digital transformation
  • Insurance, Reinsurance, and P&C Insurance
  • Product Management & Pricing
  • Underwriting

 

Languages: English, German

Christian Behek

Christian Behek

Senior Transformation Manager

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer: Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd
  • Head of Reinsurance Finance Transformation Program: Swiss Re
  • Head Treasury IT, Head Asset Management and Risk Management IT: Swiss Re
  • CEO & Founder: MB-root (Switzerland) AG and MB-root GmbH (Germany)

Key competencies

  • Enterprise & Solution Architecture
  • Program-Project Management
  • IT Strategy and Digital Transformation
  • Portfolio Management
  • Talent Development/Mentoring

 

Languages: German, English, Slovenian, Croatian

Ting Lin

Ting Lin

CSO: Insurtech Cheche Technology

Experience:

  • CSO at Insurtech Cheche Technology
  • Venture Partner: Republic
  • Start-up Advisor
  • Senior Modeler/ Researcher/ Advisor: BlackRock
  • Risk Forecasting & Models Valuation: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Senior Modeling & Underwriting Associate: GEICO

Key competencies:

  • Financial Services
  • Insurtech
  • Advisory
  • Data Science
  • Research
  • Fintech

 

Languages: English, Chinese

Collaborators

We believe in creating value to businesses by leveraging global and local networks across industries and via innovative startups.

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