Our team consists of industry leaders and seasoned veterans from different disciplines: software development, psychology, machine learning, biometrics, neuroscience and online advertising/media.
Ran Zilca, Co-Founder and CEO
Ran Zilca leads the company's strategic direction and vision, and developed the initial set of patent-pending algorithms.
His experience covers a wide range of R&D management in government and industry, including algorithm development, software and hardware design and development, and system level integration. Prior to starting Signal Patterns, Ran led various interdisciplinary R&D projects at IBM Research, Amdocs R&D and the IDF.
Ran is passionate about science as a means of making people's lives better, but being a product of the 80s, he also still plays his guitar and secretly dreams of becoming Eddie Van Halen.
Avi Naor, Co-Founder
Avi provides strategic business and financial guidance for the company.
Avi Naor was a member of the team that founded Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), a global leader in billing systems, CRM, self service, order management, mediation, and content revenue management. He was appointed President and CEO of Amdocs in 1995, led the Amdocs IPO on the NYSE in 1998, and subsequently headed major acquisitions and secondary offerings, driving sales to $1.6 billion and its global workforce to 10,000 employees.
Giri Iyengar, Ph.D., CTO
Giri Iyengar leads the science and development efforts for Signal Patterns.
Prior to Signal Patterns, Giri was with IBM in their premier T J Watson Research Center. At Watson, Giri has worked on several exciting research projects ranging from audio-visual speech recognition, high-performance computing for medical imaging and multimedia mining. Giri has published over 45 papers, given several talks and has over a dozen patents. Giri holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Mumbai and a PhD from MIT where he was with the Media Laboratory.
When he is not playing with personalities at Signal Patterns, he is out on his road bike. He is (still) hoping to do his first ever century ride in the summer but we make sure he does not have enough time to train.
David Markowitz, VP, Marketing
David leads all marketing and business development efforts for Signal Patterns.
David has over fifteen years of marketing and product management experience at a number of successful high growth companies in the software, online advertising/media and behavioral targeting sectors. He's held management positions at Tacoda, Right Media, Data Synapse and Caminus. David holds a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania and a MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.
Being a Boston sports (Sox, Pats and Celts) fan currently residing in NYC, David's living large these days!
