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An enterprising child, Joel taught himself to code in C at age 13 and founded his first company, a video recommendation technology, at 16. Joel is an appointed AI-specialist by the Swedish government and was named Sweden’s ‘top talent’ 2018 by Veckans Affärer, one of the country’s largest business magazines. In 2019, The Guardian named Joel one of ten people under 35 changing the world for the better. Joel’s work on the Sana technology has been featured in leading forums including NAACL, SXSW, Fast Company, TED, BBC, Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, Slush, Cognition X, Financial Times, The Guardian, and Wired.

Anna is an entrepreneurial strategic brand builder with 15+ years of experience in developing and implementing marketing strategies at Saatchi & Saatchi, Acne, and King. She also ran her marketing acceleration agency for five years working in Stockholm, Berlin, San Fransisco, and Kuala Lumpur. Anna is currently active in Stockholm.AI, an advisor of the AI Sustainability Center and sits in the steering committee of Nordic.AI. She is named one of the most inspiring tech leaders in the Nordics by Inspiring Fifty. In 2016 Anna co-founded Sana Labs, since then focusing on building a world-class team, brand, sales and sharing the Sana Labs’ story with the world as a keynote speaker.

Jon joined us from Boston Consulting Group where he worked in Advanced Analytics and Digital Transformations. He has over 7 years of experience in operations, as well as leading small, focused teams in large scale implementations of AI and advanced analytics. His operations experience include fund raising, transitioning business models from consulting to software, and improving business performance. His technical experience includes working as a product manager, building and deploying AI and advanced analytics platforms. Jon earned a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science from UCLA and an MBA from INSEAD.

Oscar has 15+ years of experience with machine learning and software engineering, most recently spending 6 years at Google Research. At Google, Oscar did research on neural architectures and loss shaping for language- and video understanding problems. He has worked across the stack on problems ranging from question answering, query understanding, search ranking, machine translation, and video generation, deploying state of the art models at Google scale. Prior to this, Oscar did 3 internships at Google Research and earned a PhD in Computational Linguistics from Uppsala University after obtaining a MSc from KTH. Oscar took his first steps with coding at age seven and first got in contact with neural networks for digit recognition at ReadSoft in 1999, while still in high school.

Faruk has 10+ years of experience in engineering and product development. He has led the design, development, and integration of robust and highly scalable solutions at Sana Labs, Spotify and various other startups and well-established tech organizations. Faruk most recently worked at Spotify as a product manager with the development of Spotify’s external APIs and Playback SDKs which enabled hundreds of companies like Sonos, Google, Facebook and Amazon to bring music into their products. Faruk earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Linköping University graduating first class.

Valentino previously worked at The Boston Consulting Group leading a team of data scientists building powerful analytics-based solutions to help clients tackle their most pressing business problems. He holds a double M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology.

Victor has 20+ years of experience designing digital experiences and products. His experience spans from working as a design director with the world's biggest brands through top tier agencies to startups both as founding CPO and first product hire. As head of design Victor is responsible for the continuous work of improving the experience and consistency of Sana Labs products and brand.

Susanna previously worked at AstraZeneca, harnessing predictive modelling and segmentation techniques to optimise drug therapies in a selection of target populations, to great effect. At Sana Labs, Susanna harnesses the latest research to build state-of-the-art models.Susanna earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Sofie previously worked at the investment firm Karnell screening potential investments in small and medium sized unlisted Nordic companies. She earned her MSc in Industrial Management and Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology and spent a semester during her masters at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. During her studies, she did internships at Citi, Barclays Investment Bank, and Morgan Stanley.

Samuel previously worked as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group, supporting clients on a wide array of topics ranging from strategic planning, corporate turnaround, to pricing. At BCG, Samuel also worked extensively on bringing high-value, transformative analytics use cases to market. He holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University.

Viktor previously worked at VPD Financial Software where he developed software for financial analysis used by some of Sweden's leading banks and asset managers. Prior to VPD Financial Software, Viktor did a research internship at Ericsson and helped develop one of Sweden's largest online courses in mathematics at the department of mathematics of Stockholm University. Viktor holds a joint MSc in Mathematics from the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University where he did research on topological quantum computing.

Miruna earned her Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics and Data Science at Harvard University. During her studies, she worked on a range of projects, including natural language processing algorithms in the medical field, building civic engagement models for local communities in Europe, and researching compartmental models with application to measles epidemics.

Ulf has 15+ years of experience with software engineering, having previously worked at Spotify. While at Spotify he built core components of the infrastructure for content delivery, making it scale to millions of users. Prior to Spotify, Ulf researched new methods of executing controller software on servers as a consultant at HiQ. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Gothenburg.

Sebastian is an eclectic mind at the intersection of CS, design and HCI who most recently worked at 14islands leveraging interaction design principles to engineer user interfaces with React and Redux. Prior to 14islands, Sebastian worked at Stanley Robotics collaborating in a cross-functional team with designers, developers, hardware engineers, and marketers. Sebastian earned his double M.Sc. at KTH and Université Paris-Saclay in Human-Computer Interaction and Design.

Jenny earned her M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering with a Machine Learning specialization at KTH. During her studies, Jenny has done internships at Accenture implementing NLP techniques for automating customer care, at H&M automating warehouse functions as well as at Karma, researching regions for upcoming international expansion.

Mai previously worked at Stockholm-based fintech Tink where she founded the Growth & Monetization function which is dedicated to providing the best self-serve experience for developers and monetizing these users. Prior to Tink, she spent several years at Dropbox where she led the self-serve assist efforts, scaling the outsourced sales functions to a global level with a sole focus on incremental revenue programs. At Sana Labs, Mai is responsible for building the self-serve function. Mai holds an MA double degree in European Management Studies from ESB Business School and EM Strasbourg.

Alexandra earned her M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering with a Machine Learning specialization at KTH. During the summers, she’s done internships at Accenture developing AI applications for internal use as well as Bonnier News working on data analysis to forecast customer service volumes as well as retention.