Meet our speakers
Alejandro began his compliance journey seven and a half years ago when he joined Ria Money Transfer. For the first four years, he worked in the TRG department, analyzing financial activities in real-time to prevent AML, fraud, and terrorist financing. Due to his dedication and outstanding performance, he was given the opportunity to establish a new post-transactional department, the Consumer Financial Intelligence Unit for Europe. Over the past three years, he has focused on investigating and analyzing complex networks to identify criminal activity, collaborating closely with local compliance teams and authorities.
Paco Nathan leads DevRel for the Entity Resolved Knowledge Graph practice area at Senzing.com and is a computer scientist with +40 years of tech industry experience and core expertise in data science, natural language, graph technologies, and cloud computing. He's the author of numerous books, videos, and tutorials about these topics.
Paco advises Kurve.ai, EmergentMethods.ai, KungFu.ai, DataSpartan, and Argilla.io (acq. Hugging Face), and is lead committer for the pytextrank and kglab open source projects. Formerly: Director of Learning Group at O'Reilly Media; and Director of Community Evangelism at Databricks.
Alan is the Chief Technology Officer for Aptitude Global, a specialist Data Solutions provider delivering data-driven solutions in Financial Services and other regulated industries. Prior to joining Aptitude, Alan has spent over 15 years helping Tier 1 Retail and Investment Banks comply with complex regulation and deliver enterprise scale transformation. With a background in R&D and a PhD in Computing Science, Alan promotes innovation, automation and learning and has an special interest in Anti-Financial Crime and Entity Resolution solutions.
Marilyne leads the team driving Linkurious’ products strategy and overseeing product development. Her mission is to identify emerging market trends and collaborate with customers and partners to envision new product developments and experiences to continuously elevate the value delivered with Linkurious products. Prior to this role, Marilyne was Head of Customer Success at Linkurious and Customer Success Manager at Feedzai.
Aidan Troy is the Vice President of UK & Ireland at Nuix, a leading provider of innovative software solutions that empowers organisations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. With over 25 years of experience in senior sales roles at IBM and Palantir Technologies, Aidan has a proven track record of leading international sales teams. He has deep expertise in AI, cloud, and business transformation, and is passionate about leveraging technology to drive innovation and solve complex challenges ethically.
Sébastien is the CEO of Linkurious. He has long standing passion for democratizing network thinking. He co-founded Gephi, the leading open source software for exploring networks of all kind in 2008. Since then, he has published, written and talked extensively about the impact of graph visualization.
David is co-founder and CTO at Linkurious. Before joining Linkurious he worked for the French Web archive project at INA, where he helped crawl, store, index and analyze petabytes of Web data. He has been working on most aspects of software engineering for the last 8 years. He enjoys crafting software that makes complicated things look simple. He has an engineering degree in software engineering.
Thibaut Kellam is the Head of Customer Success at Linkurious and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS). Before joining Linkurious to support financial institutions in the adoption of graph technology to fight financial crime, Thibaut was a KYC/Compliance analyst and a Financial Security Manager at BNP Paribas.
Two guest speakers - a project head and a data scientist - join us from a UK government department to discuss their graph technology journey.
With 8 years of experience in the banking domain, Shraddha supports Linkurious’ clients throughout their graph journey, ensuring they gain the most value out of Linkurious Enterprise. She has worked mostly with investment banks in quality assurance and client management. She holds an MBA degree from France and an Engineering degree from India.
With 4 years of experience as a technical advisor in B2B processes, Andrea supports Linkurious’ clients dealing with technical challenges, ensuring they gain the most value out of Linkurious Enterprise. MSc. In Computer Science from La Sapienza, Italy. Thesis in Ontology-Based Data Access.