ADVANTAGE DATA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Advisor ( Global Technology Leader, Serial Entrepreneur, Member of European Parliament )
- Member of European Parliament
Antanas (Tony) is a Member of European Parliament. Tony is is a serial entrepreneur involved in numerous startups both online and offline. Tony's passion these days is within the Blockchain industry where he actively participates in political discussions regarding cryptocurrencies and cyber security and was instrumental in setting up Vilnius (Lithuania) as the Blockchain gateway in Europe.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Founding Partner
Damon is a co-founder of Advantage Data and holds a Master's Degree in Commerce (Hons) and a Degree in Economics (Hons). Damon has had more than 20 years experience working with data and has been involved in setting up several successful internet startups that have relied largely on big data analysis. He is currently the CEO and founder of Rate Detective one of Australia's largest financial comparison sites. Damon has a passion for econometrics, data science and machine learning.
Damon is also an expert in blockchain technology and has been involved as an adviser in many startup ICOs that have data applications including Bankera. Of particular interest to Damon is data valuation methodologies using machine learning as well as traditional techniques.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Partner and Co - Founder of Advantage Data Eugene
Dr. Eugene Dubossarsky is a partner and co-founder of Advantage Data Eugene holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning (Neural Networks) and brings 22 years of commercial data science experience. He is a leader in the Data Science field in Australia, founding and running a number of communities in the space with thousands of members. His analytics training business, Presciient, has trained hundreds of aspiring data scientists in corporate, startup, government and health sectors.
As a consultant, he assists businesses with data science strategy, both in creating and expanding and building their data science capability, as well as leveraging it for strategic and operational decision making. He also assists companies in the deep technical aspects of data science, providing advice on advanced methods to improve data science performance and deliver more measurable value. Eugene is particurly interested in new fields of data science including data valuation, blockchain and quantum computing.
He is also the Chief Data Scientist of AlphaZetta, an international analytics consulting firm spanning 27 countries and 330 consultants. Eugene is the creator of the open source data visualisation tool ggraptR, and a regularly invited conference presenter, trainer and media interviewee on data science issues.
With a background in economics and finance, Theo has applied statistical and machine learning techniques to solve business problems across different domains: banking, fraud detection, digital advertising, product analytics, customer acquisition, financial trading and portfolio optimisation.
Theo is an expert in all phases of the data science process, from business understanding, data acquisition, modelling through to deployment. He has worked for Atlassian using open source technology including R and Python, cloud platforms and services, through to enterprise-level analytics such as SAS at Westpac Bank.