Usama Fayyad — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Chairman and Founder of Open Insights, a company he founded in 2008 and served as CEO from 2008-2020.
SVP of AI & Data Strategy, Senior Advisor to the President, and Inaugural Director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.
Co-founded DMX Group (2003), a data mining company acquired by Yahoo! in 2004.
Co-founded and served as CEO of Audience Science (digiMine, Inc.) from 2000-2003, a leader in behavioral targeting.
Founding Executive Chairman of Oasis500 (2010-2016), a tech start-up investment fund and accelerator in the MENA region.
Held executive roles including Chief Data Officer and EVP at Yahoo! (2004-2008) and Chief Data Officer at Barclays Bank (2013-2016).
Earned a Ph.D. in engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991), and is a Fellow of AAAI & ACM.

Biography

Usama Fayyad is a Jordanian-American data scientist with over three decades of experience in AI and Machine Learning. He currently serves as the Chairman and Founder of Open Insights in Silicon Valley/Seattle, a company he founded in 2008 and led as CEO from 2008 to 2020. Concurrently, he is an SVP of AI & Data Strategy, Senior Advisor to the President, and the Inaugural Director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.