about - Consulting Tesseract Academy

Who We Are

We are a group of elite technical and business experts and leaders with more than 20 years of expertise in areas like AI, data science, blockchain, product development, and project management.

Our Vision

Helping leaders understand deep technical topics like AI and blockchain, and assisting them in bringing change and transformation into their organisations, achieving 10x growth.

Our Methods

We help leaders transform their organisation through our unique combination of workshops, courses, frameworks and consulting services.

Our Goal

To make technologies like data science, AI and blockchain accessible to any non-technical leader.

The Team

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Dr Stylianos Kampakis

Dr Stylianos (Stelios) Kampakis is a data scientist with more than 10 years of experience. He has worked with decision makers from companies of all sizes: from startups and solo entrepreneurs (which in total have raised more than $50million in funding) to organisations like, the US Navy, Vodafone and British Land.

He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society, honorary research fellow at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a mentor in Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, a data science advisor for London Business School and CEO of The Tesseract Academy. He is also the author of the Decision Maker’s Handbook to Data Science, a book that has defined the space of data science for executives.

Fabio Rovai, MSc

Fabio Rovai is a data scientist with strong academic and industrial interests. He graduated from the Creative Computing Institute with a master of science degree in data science and artificial intelligence. He has been teaching for several years, demystifying the function of AI to a wide range of audiences, and he is currently working for SquareTrade as a Data Scientist.

Reza Doobary, PhD

Reza Doobary is an experienced data scientist and machine learning engineer. He has many years of experience in all data-related disciplines, from data engineering to MLOps. He has worked across a range of industries most notably healthtech and finance. He also has multiple peer-reviewed articles under his name.

Greg Cussell

Greg Cussell is an entrepreneurial visionary with an extensive track record in media, technology, and financial services. He previously served as the Global Lead Commercial Director at CNN, where he led groundbreaking innovations, including the development of CNN Pulse, an AI-powered platform that revolutionized how global newsrooms leveraged real-time insights from social media. This platform provided both editorial and commercial teams with critical data, enabling real-time decision-making that transformed how CNN operated globally.

Andrew Olowude

Andrew Olowude is a highly accomplished AI architect and software engineer, with over a decade of experience in building enterprise-grade solutions that empower businesses to thrive in the digital era. He holds a major in Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University in New York, where he developed a deep expertise in machine learning and data-driven systems.

Dr Theodosis Mourouzis

Dr. Theodosis (Theo) Mourouzis is a cryptologist and information security professional with strong interests in both academia and industry. He holds a BA/MA in Mathematics and a MSc in Pure Mathematics (PART III – Number Theory Group) from University of Cambridge, a MRes in Security Science and a PhD in Information Security with Specialisation in Cryptography from University College London. He is also a member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and director of Electi Consulting.

Vasileios Iosifidis, PhD

Dr. Vasileios Iosifidis, an AI expert with a robust background in Computer Engineering (B.Sc. & M.Sc.), Software Engineering (M.Sc.), and Machine Learning/AI (PhD., summa cum laude), has extensive experience across diverse AI domains. His expertise spans finance, logistics, pricing, customer segmentation, responsible AI, natural language processing for MDM processes, similarity detection, recommendation systems and others. Vasileios excels in translating complex problems into AI solutions, leveraging his deep technical knowledge and implementation skills, making him the ideal AI Consultant. He has led numerous AI projects in the industry and has over 25 peer-reviewed publications in international conferences.

Noam Auerbach

Noam Auerbach, Data Product Manager and consultant with 10+ years of experience in the field.

Noam is a product person focused on scaling and monetizing platforms. Throughout his career, he has been on the fine line between product management and growth; driving retention and revenue. At the moment, he is the head of product & growth at Enhancv – the world’s leading resume builder and career development platform. Before that, he was the product lead at Tourlane (a Soquia Berlin-based travelling start-up), head of product at YEAY (Berlin-based video social shopping app) and the Growth PM at SoundCloud.

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Sameer Rahman

Sameer has been voted by Data IQ as Top 100 Data leaders and influencers in the UK in 2021 and 2020. He is a visionary data and tech leader with experience in influencing business practices at all levels, as well as a business advisor for start-ups helping them leverage data to do something meaningfully different in the market. He is also the CEO of DataMonet, helping organizations drive commercial value out of their data.

Seren Yashar

Seren Yashar is a Data and AI strategist in Accenture. She is a digital enthusiast specializing in supporting businesses that thrive in an increasingly AI-dominated market. She has extensive knowledge of how data strategy can be applied to derive value out of data.

Zane Harvey

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Capitol Technology University Leveraging advanced degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering, Zane brings a very broad skillset to the Tesseract team. In addition to doing Technology Consulting in the United States, he also teaches as an Adjunct Professor (Online and On Ground) in the Computer Science Department of Capitol Technology University, located in the Washington DC Metro area. His specialties include Data Engineering, ETL Pipelines, Data Consolidation, and Big Data Storage. His past work and clients include a portfolio of US Government Laboratories, Fortune 500 Companies, as well as small to medium sized private businesses in the USA.

Dr Walid Ghodbane

Dr Walid Ghodbane is Assistant Professor of Business Administration and deputy dean for accreditation at ESCT Business School. He is visiting professor of MIS at SWISS UMEF University at Switzerland. He is member and mentor of world’s top accelerators such as The Alchemist of the United States, and Seedstars of Switzerland. He is member and reviewer of Academy of Management (AOM) and Alumni of Startups scaling and mentoring program of the United States Department of State (IVLP).

Denton Rawson

Denton Rawson is an entrepreneur and Founder of IOK Digital Ltd, which is a technology and AI consulting firm. With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He has worked with some of the world’s Top Blue Chip organisations in the F100 and F500 at stakeholder level: A proven track record in delivering value for organisations with technology.

He is an active member of the Tesseract Academy, where he currently consults on how Organisations can find value in their data through AI and Data science.

Nikos Katsikanis

Nikos Katsikanis is an experienced JavaScript trainer and consultant. He has worked for over ten years in the industry and enjoys the working dynamics of different organisations and has a wealth of experience to pass on. His clients have included the likes of British Gas, Dixons Carphone and RES. You can find out more about him by visiting quantumjs.com. He has partnered up with the Tesseract Academy in order to provide training in hiring and managing software developer teams.

Dr Joseph Mallia

Dr Joseph Mallia is an experienced project leader, manager, and enterprise architect. He aims on delivering business value through innovation at minimal costs through participation of stakeholders. Driven by motivation, he takes pride in providing the best coaching methods possible to enable organization productivity and process excellence. As head of project delivery and governance, his goals include business transformation through strategic values, facilitates the creation of human and organisational connection, collaboration, and sustainable alignment, and harvesting knowledge through information sharing.
In addition to his primary job functions, Dr Mallia is also a lecturer, specialising in management, project management and strategy development. He facilitates learning by enabling full participation, supported through hands-on experience and case studies. This has been recognized by several institutes and students who were supervised during their studies.

Dr Clif Lewis

Dr Clif P Lewis is a licensed I/O Psychologist, Chartered HR Professional and published researcher with experience working in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His progressive experience spans across 15 years and various industries, including the manufacturing, retail, higher education, financial services, legal services, social development, mining, and energy sectors. Similarly his areas of expertise are diverse in breadth and depth, including fields such as Learning, Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Recruitment, Talent, Employment Law, Psychometric Assessment, Research Design, People Analytics, Governance, Strategy, and Policy.

Eleftherios Jerry Floros

Eleftherios Jerry Floros is an accomplished author, speaker and consultant on finance, financial technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, conscious capitalism, digital disruption, entrepreneurship, future of work and the global economy. He is a contributing author of the following bestselling books: The WealthTech Book, The PayTech Book The LegalTech Book The Artificial Intelligence Book

Dr Leonard Apeltsin

Dr Apeltsin holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from UCSF. He is a co-founder of Primer.ai, a machine learning company that focuses on natural language processing. Dr. Apeltsin’s book, “Data Science Bookcamp”, has been featured on the best-seller list of Manning Publishing. His specialties include large-scale analytics, genomics, text analysis, and advanced machine learning techniques.

Andrea Consentino

Andrea is a fintech expert and advisor. Andrea has gained extensive professional experience within Financial Markets & Technology mainly at Bloomberg LP, having immersed himself in both corporate and start-up business setting his first VC/Angel advisory almost 10 years ago. He is a well-rounded Business Angel, thought leader in the FinTech Industry with numerous publications and Professor at ESCP Business School and other major Business Schools in EMEA and MENA.

Dr. Marc Bara

Project Management Consultant and Trainer, with broad experience in all aspects of planning, execution and tracking of industrial and IT projects. Founder of ProjectWorkLab.com, a consulting company to assist organizations in deploying, operating and optimizing Project Management to meet evolving challenges, functions, and services.
Marc has the privilege the privilege to be the Director of Master in Project Management at EAE Business School (www.eae.es), and Professor at the Master in International Business, Global Executive MBA and International MBA at several Business Schools.
He holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification by the Project Management Institute, and the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification by scrum.org.

Narcis Balalau

Narcis is a dynamic entrepreneur, strategic non-executive director and business growth specialist, experienced with business start-ups growth as well as post M&A diagnostic and delivery, brand strategy and change leadership with a demonstrated history over 15+ years of leading teams in the Independent Retail, Food Service, Manufacturing and Wholesale sectors. He is highly skilled in Business Transformation, Strategic Business Planning, Retail outlets setup, B2B and B2C Route-to-Market strategies and global supply chains. He has a proven record of scaling up manufacturing and retail chains, as well as field-to-fork sustainable solutions.

Angelo Tzimopoulos

Angelo is freelance Principal Management Consultant and applied Data Scientist with broad experience implementing Data Analytics solutions, Digital Transformation and Technology Change for Vendors and Global Banks in Financial Services and Government. This unique blend of technical and interpersonal skills and his industry experience, have allowed Angelo to work with a broad range of Clients, helping them bridge the gap between their Business and Analytics teams, bring critical projects over the line and deliver great value to their organisation.

Angelo Tzimopoulos

Angelo is freelance Principal Management Consultant and applied Data Scientist with broad experience implementing Data Analytics solutions, Digital Transformation and Technology Change for Vendors and Global Banks in Financial Services and Government. This unique blend of technical and interpersonal skills and his industry experience, have allowed Angelo to work with a broad range of Clients, helping them bridge the gap between their Business and Analytics teams, bring critical projects over the line and deliver great value to their organisation.

Dr. Husam Adawalla

Husam Adawalla is a digital Transformation professional with over 20 years in consulting, project management, and training and with strong consulting and project leadership skills. Currently focusing on Innovation, and new technologies specifically AI and Blockchain . IEEE UK & Ireland Blockchain Industrial Liaison Lead and Fellow of the Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (IKE).

Thyrsos Makloklas

Thyrsos is a versatile data scientist and business intelligence professional with 3+ years of experience in building data-intensive applications. Holder of a Business Analytics degree from UCL, he is proficient in predictive modelling, processing and visualisation aims to find the bridges between functional and technical resources in organizations.

Tom Hayes

Tom has more than 40 years’ experience working as a Consultant in IT, Business Analysis, Project Management, Systems Development, Data Protection, Information Governance and Management, Data Protection, GDPR and Cyber Security. He has worked at levels of management – up to Board level, in the UK, USA and China. He is a Fellow of both the British Computer Society, the Institute of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a National Cyber Security Centre approved Cyber Security Consultant.

He has undertaken data protection and cyber security compliance at over 30 companies within the Health, Finance, Fintech, Marketing, Events Management, Manufacturing, Retail, HR, IT and other sectors within both the private and public sectors – for start-ups, SMEs and multi-national companies.

Tom Hayes

Tom has more than 40 years’ experience working as a Consultant in IT, Business Analysis, Project Management, Systems Development, Data Protection, Information Governance and Management, Data Protection, GDPR and Cyber Security. He has worked at levels of management – up to Board level, in the UK, USA and China. He is a Fellow of both the British Computer Society, the Institute of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a National Cyber Security Centre approved Cyber Security Consultant.

He has undertaken data protection and cyber security compliance at over 30 companies within the Health, Finance, Fintech, Marketing, Events Management, Manufacturing, Retail, HR, IT and other sectors within both the private and public sectors – for start-ups, SMEs and multi-national companies.

Anthi

Anthi is a legal consultant and founder of Privacy Doctor. She is holder of an LL.B in Law and from King’s College and LPC graduate from The University of Law. She is actively involved with data protection matters and is the UK representative at the International Network of Legal Privacy Professionals (INPLP) and is a Certified Privacy Professional in Europe (CIPP/E). She currently specialises in data protection and compliance as well as commercial contracts and intellectual property in the tech, e-commerce, recruitment, fashion and retail industries. Anthi’s work also extends to AI and blockchain regulation as well as data ethics and governance.

Hala Faissal, PhD

The Head of the Economics Department at the Lebanese University and a senior economics lecturer with over 10 years of professional academic experience at leading Lebanese and international academic institutions, mentoring around 10K+ students from various social and cultural backgrounds. She is also a tokenomics expert, helping token projects with the design of their token issuance to maximize network usage and growth.

Also, a senior researcher in the field of web3, tokenomics, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and the metaverse. Hala joined NEAR University as a teacher in residence, introducing the concepts of blockchain economics to the audience with NEAR blockchain examples.

Dr. Marcel Müller

Marcel Müller is a German deep tech entrepreneur, researcher, and consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science on engineering methods to create trust-aware business processes with distributed ledger technologies and authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific publications. Marcel has worked on enterprise blockchain projects in supply chain management, energy, and finance and is the founder of KnowledgeX. The startup helps businesses connect their data across company boundaries.