Usama Fayyad

Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. is CEO of Open Insights LLC. Until recently he was Group Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Barclays in London. Previously he lead tech startup fund OASIS-500, was Chairman, Co-Founder, and CTO of Blue Kangaroo Corp, and served as Yahoo! CDO, responsible for global data strategy. Usama has published over 100 technical articles, holds over 30 patents, is a Fellow of the Association for Advancement of AI, a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, and has edited two influential books on data mining.