ALPHA10X - Key Persons


Amine Abboudi

Job Titles:
  • VP, Product / VP, Product
Amine holds a master's degree in data science from École Polytechnique - X, an elite French ‘grande école'. He who has a why can bear almost any how.

Amine Majdoubi - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
Formerly BCG, Amine holds a master's degree in data science from École Polytechnique - X, an elite French ‘grande école'.

Dr. Greger Ottosson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Product Officer
  • Product Leader
Specialized in AI and decision intelligence, Dr. Greger Ottosson is a highly accomplished product leader concentrated on complex software systems design and development. He joined ALPHA10X after a 15-year career at IBM, where he held senior R&D and product management leadership roles in the areas of Advanced Analytics, Business Automation and Artificial Intelligence. As part of IBM Design's leadership team, he led the transformation of the company's product management practices - incorporating elements of Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile - programmatically rolled out at scale to the organization globally. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and Uppsala University. He is an Affiliate Chair at 3IA Côte d'Azur AI Research Institute and a visiting professor at EDHEC and SKEMA business schools.

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Renault

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist and Manager
  • VP, Data Science / VP, Data Science
Jean-Baptiste is a highly accomplished data scientist and manager of complex data science / AI teams and projects. He holds a PhD in biomechanical engineering from the research-intensive Aix-Marseille University.

Emmanuel Girault

Job Titles:
  • VP, Development / VP, Development
Emmanuel is a highly skilled and experienced leader of complex software development teams and projects. He holds a master's degree in software engineering from Télécom Paris, an elite French ‘grande école'.

Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Job Titles:
  • Board
  • Professor
Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science, Satya is a renowned experimental computer scientist, a founding pioneer in edge computing, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the IoT. He is an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow. The ‘father of edge computing', his multi-decade research career has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability, and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the Internet. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Michael Howell - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Michael Howell is a specialized healthcare venture, growth as well as private equity investor, with an exceptional leadership track-record. He is a serial entrepreneur and operator having founded, developed, and successfully IPO'd and exited multiple healthcare companies. He has served as chief executive officer on the boards of various public and private companies, universities, and charitable foundations. He started his career in public accounting at Deloitte. A world class triathlete and Iron Man, he is based in Phoenix, Arizona. I was not born into this world in defeat, I will persist until I succeed.

Pierre Georgel - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer
Formerly KPMG, Pierre holds advanced master's degrees in technology and management from CentraleSupélec and NEOMA Business School, two elite french 'grandes écoles'.

Pieter Knook

Job Titles:
  • Board
An accomplished strategy and business development leader, Pieter previously served as a senior executive at Vodafone, and at Microsoft, where he was as one of the company's top 25 executives. As president of Microsoft Asia, he led the company's efforts in opening and expanding in Asian markets. He served as visiting professor of innovation at Cambridge University, and has chaired or sat on numerous public and private boards and has presided over multiple exits.

Robert Marcus - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
Specialized in AI, Robert is a former Sand Hill Road (Silicon Valley) venture capitalist, investment banker, public-company CEO, Microsoft manager, and founder of several successfully exited companies. His two books, The Fifth Wave, on data-driven innovation and investment, and Collective Knowledge, on knowledge management, describe the ALPHA10X thesis.

Sergio Marques - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Investment Banker
Sergio Marques is an accomplished investment banker with a track-record of leading complex transactions and building and scaling a large emerging growth business in the financial services sector. Prior to taking a sabbatical, during which time he advised an investment banking boutique and a decentralized finance startup, he served most recently as Global Head of Sales and Fundraising, at Investec Investment Banking & Securities, based in London. At Investec, he is credited with building an institutional sales, syndications, and fundraising business unit to over $7 billion in annual asset sales and $6 billion in funds and partnerships, from a zero base. Prior to Investec, he worked in structured credit sales at Hoare Capital Markets, Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank. He holds a masters in international finance from the #1 ranked European business school, ESCP.