Meet Our CEO
Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck
Key Interests: Coaching for Empathetic Leadership, Fearless Experimentation, Humans & Tech, Climbing, Comedy
“Laugh, Learn and Leap: Innovating intelligence demands experimentation & courage”
Our Team
Stephanie Hürland
Head of AI Projects & Business Strategy
Key Interests: Mountains, sports lover, efficiency (because chaos is expensive), AI meets ROI.
“Expect the unexpected”
Thomas Lorenz
Chief Technology Officer
“Never lose the why — it's the anchor for every decision.”
Julia Hansmeyer
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Explainable AI, Multimodal AI, Interactive Machine Learning, painting & writing Poems
“Focused on delivering machine learning solutions and learning a lot on the way there.”
Helmi Boussetta
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Hiking, Padel Tennis Playing, Gen AI
“Transforming data into meaningful insights!”
Kiwi Wölfel
General Management
Key Interests: Biketours, Music, Reforestation
“Fueling creativity with calm, clarity, and a smile.”
Caroline Sasse
AI Management and Training
Key Interests: handcraft, plants, sudoku
“Aiming practical perfectionism”
Marco Totolo
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Explainable AI, Language Learning, Running
“Passionate about learning and creating solutions that make a difference.”
Zurana Mehrin Ruhi
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Painting, Writing Poems; Explainable AI, Multimodal AI, Interactive Machine Learning
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
Jan Schütze
Lead Architect
Key Interests: Sour Dough, Snowboarding, Automating all the Things
“Passionate about evolutionary architecture and growing people”
Hanan Khan
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Photography, Generative AI, AI Ethics
“Harnessing AI to deliver meaningful solutions.”
Thirumal Janakiraman
MlOps
Key Interests: AI-Driven Software Development, Concept Sculpting, Cricket, Table Tennis
“Igniting innovation with sparks of AI brilliance.”
Özlem Ünal Logacev
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Speech and audio processing
“Stay curious”
Data Analyst / MLOps
“Great work often happens behind the scenes: our Infrastructure team has another engineer keeping everything smooth.”
Lucca Faust
AI Project Management
Key Interests: Hiking, Vinyl Mixing, Experimenting with Agentic Systems
“Focusing on bridging the gap between AI complexity and seamless delivery.”
Laura Santa Cruz
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Volleyball, birdwatching, cooking, Generative and Explainable AI
“Learning never ends!”
Nadeem Nazer
AI Engineering
Key Interests: Computer Vision, Deep Learning & Foundation Models, Sci-fi movies, Badminton, Swimming
“I embrace the struggle of learning until the work becomes second nature.”
Nikola Njavro
Software Engineering
“Always open to learn.”
Nilofer Qayumi
People and Culture
Key Interests: Baking, Reading books and I have a special passion for collecting and organizing photo albums and collages at home :D
“Bringing people and ideas together to spark innovation and create lasting impact.”
Wo KI auf Kreativität trifft: Vielfalt leben und gemeinsam innovativ sein!
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