OUR TEAM
Vlad Dabija, Ph.D. - Managing Director
Vlad is a business strategist, scientist, entrepreneur, and technology investor. He has led technology teams and investments in more than a dozen countries in North America, Asia and Europe. During his career, Vlad was a founder and the CEO of GreenBorder Technologies, a company acquired by Google to become the foundation of the Chrome browser, and a co-founder and managing partner of IgniteIP, a technology investment and commercialization private equity firm. Vlad was also Vice President of the Innovation Group at Xinova and Director of Investment Strategy at Intellectual Ventures, as well as a Partner at CMEA Ventures. His many years of technology experience include software architecture and management positions at Sun Microsystems and Ashton Tate Corporation, as well as board director, advisor and consultant with over 40 companies and venture capital firms on business strategy and technology.
Vlad holds a Ph.D. in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Stanford University, an MBA with Distinction from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a Diplomat Engineer degree in computer engineering, as Valedictorian, from the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, Romania. Vlad was a teaching fellow for advanced artificial intelligence courses at Stanford University, and associate professor for computer programming at the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, Romania. He was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Robotics, Polytechnic Institute (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, and the Central Research Laboratory of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in Amagasaki, Japan, as well as a Kauffman Fellow in San Francisco, CA.
Our team members are scientists and university faculty with deep specialization in the particular technology to be used. This allows us the flexibility to bring together, for each project, the best combination of world-class computer science experts to achieve the best value (performance/price) for that particular project. Here are brief summaries of just a few of our team members.
Strategy consulting
Ph.D. Computer Science (Stanford University)
MBA (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania)
Patents: 30+ granted, 25+ applications
Publications: 1 book, 20+ scientific articles
Companies: 3 founder / CEO; 25+ director/advisor
Software Architecture and Design
Ph.D. Computer Science (Stanford University)
Putnam Fellow
Patents: 7 granted
Publications: 1 book, 12 scientific articles
Natural Language, Semantic Analysis
Ph.D. Computer Science (University of Grenoble)
University Professor
Publications: 6 books, 150 scientific articles
Data Analytics
Ph.D. Computer Science (Stanford)
Intl Math Olympics Gold Medal
Quant trading systems
Machine Learning, Deep Leaning
Ph.D. Computer Science
University Professor
Publications: 5 books, 70 scientific articles
Data Center Security, Blockchain
Ph.D. Computer Science
Professor Poly Bucharest
Publications: 1 book, 20 scientific articles
Computer Vision, Algorithms
Ph.D. Computer Science (Carnegie Mellon University)
University Professor, Researcher Math Institute
Publications: 1 book, 30 scientific articles
Quantum Computing, Data Analytics
Ph.D. Mathematics
University Professor
Publications: 1 book, 20 scientific articles
Computer Vision
Ph.D. Computer Science
University Professor
Publications: 20 scientific articles
Data Center and Computer Network Security
MS Computer Science, Ph.D. Candidate
World Expert in Penetration Testing & Security Auditing: 200+ missions worldwide
Publications: 10+ scientific articles; 20+ Cyber Security Certifications
100+ other team members with similar expertise