About Tesseract Academy | AI & Data Strategy Experts
About Us

Elite AI & Data Experts

We are a group of elite technical and business experts and leaders with more than 20 years of expertise in areas like AI, data science, blockchain, product development, and project management.

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Our Vision

Helping leaders understand deep technical topics like AI and blockchain, and assisting them in bringing change and transformation into their organisations, achieving 10x growth.

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Our Methods

We help leaders transform their organisation through our unique combination of workshops, courses, frameworks and consulting services.

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Our Goal

To make technologies like data science, AI and blockchain accessible to any non-technical leader.

Stylianos Kampakis, PhD, CStat
Founder & CEO

Stylianos Kampakis, PhD, CStat

Stylianos (Stelios) Kampakis is a data scientist with more than 10 years of experience. He has worked with decision makers from companies of all sizes: from startups and solo entrepreneurs (which in total have raised more than $50 million in funding) to organisations like the US Navy, Vodafone, and British Land.

He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society, honorary research fellow at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a mentor in Cambridge University's Judge Business School, a data science advisor for London Business School, and CEO of The Tesseract Academy.

He is the author of The Decision Maker's Handbook to Data Science, Predicting the Unknown, and Business Models in Emerging Technologies — three books that have helped define the space of data science and AI for non-technical leaders.

Royal Statistical Society UCL Blockchain Cambridge Judge London Business School Published Author
Core Leadership Team

Strategic Excellence

Fabio Rovai

Fabio Rovai, MSc

Partner & Data Scientist

Experience across academia, industry, and government innovation programmes. Led projects with the National Digital Twin Programme on LLM ontologies and drives AI adoption through UKRI.

Nazir Ul-Ghani

Nazir Ul-Ghani

Fractional CRO, Scaling AI & SaaS

Over 20 years’ experience as a founder and global revenue leader. Nazir specialises in turning early traction into structured, repeatable growth across sales and demand generation.

Linas Stankevicius

Linas Stankevicius

Economic Systems Researcher

Specializing in cryptoeconomic audits, mathematical modeling, and game theory with experience at PwC and Vinted. Researcher for ProvectoLabs and GTM at ResearchTech.

Zane Harvey

Zane Harvey

Adjunct Professor, Capitol Technology University

Specialties include Data Engineering, ETL Pipelines, and Big Data. Clients include US Government Laboratories and Fortune 500 companies.

Dr. Ferrie van Echtelt

Dr. Ferrie van Echtelt

Boardroom Advisor & Mentor

Ph.D.-qualified impact entrepreneur with 25+ years in venture development. Specialist in investment readiness (Seed to Series A) and international business scaling.

Koby Yogaretnam

Koby Yogaretnam

Strategy & Growth Consultant

Consultant and entrepreneur with a background in strategy and scale at leading institutions including Accenture and global investment banks. Specializes in startup growth, execution, and business strategy.

Our Team

World-Class Experts

Our faculty and advisory board spans AI, data science, blockchain, project management, and enterprise transformation.

Dr. Theodosis Mourouzis

Dr Theodosis Mourouzis

Cryptologist & InfoSec Expert

A cryptologist and information security professional holding a PhD from UCL. Member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and Managing Director of Electi Consulting.

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Marcos Charalambides

Economic Systems & AI Researcher

Azure AI Engineer and Economic Systems researcher with a PhD in Mathematics from Berkeley. Previously a researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, specializing in cryptoeconomic modeling.

Reza Doobary

Reza Doobary, PhD

Data Scientist & ML Engineer

An experienced data scientist and machine learning engineer with many years of experience in all data-related disciplines, from data engineering to MLOps. Worked across a range of industries, most notably healthtech and finance.

Greg Cussell

Greg Cussell

Media & Technology Strategist

An entrepreneurial visionary who previously served as the Global Lead Commercial Director at CNN, where he led groundbreaking innovations including the AI-powered CNN Pulse platform.

Andrew Olowude

Andrew Olowude

CTO, Xenet — AI Architect

A highly accomplished AI architect with over a decade of experience building enterprise-grade solutions. Holds a major in Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University.

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Vasileios Iosifidis, PhD

AI Consultant

An AI expert with a robust background in Computer Engineering and Machine Learning. Expertise spans finance, logistics, pricing, responsible AI, and NLP.

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Noam Auerbach

Data Product Manager

A product person focused on scaling and monetizing platforms with 10+ years of experience. Currently Head of Product & Growth at Enhancv.

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Sameer Rahman

Data Leader & Influencer

Voted by Data IQ as Top 100 Data leaders. A visionary data leader and CEO of DataMonet, helping organizations drive commercial value out of their data.

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Seren Yashar

Data & AI Strategist, Accenture

A digital enthusiast specializing in supporting businesses that thrive in an increasingly AI-dominated market. Expertise in applying data strategy for value.

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Dr Walid Ghodbane

Business Administration Professor

Assistant Professor and deputy dean for accreditation at ESCT Business School. Mentor at world-top accelerators like The Alchemist and Seedstars.

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Denton Rawson

Founder, IOK Digital Ltd

Entrepreneur with 20+ years in the technology industry. Consulting on finding value through AI and Data Science for Blue Chip organisations.

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Dr Leonard Apeltsin

Co-founder, Primer.ai

Holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from UCSF. Author of "Data Science Bookcamp". Specialties include large-scale analytics and NLP.

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Andrea Consentino

FinTech Expert & Business Angel

Extensive experience within Financial Markets mainly at Bloomberg LP. A Business Angel and thought leader in FinTech. Professor at ESCP Business School.

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Dr. Marc Bara

Project Management Consultant

Director of the Master in Project Management at EAE Business School. Broad experience in planning, execution and tracking of industrial projects.

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Dr Joseph Mallia

Enterprise Architect & PM

Experienced project leader and enterprise architect focused on delivering value through innovation. Specialising in management and strategy development.

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Nikos Katsikanis

JavaScript Trainer & Consultant

Over ten years in the industry. Partners with Tesseract Academy on training in hiring and managing software developer teams.

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Hala Faissal, PhD

Economics & Tokenomics Expert

Head of the Economics Department at the Lebanese University. A tokenomics expert senior researcher in web3, DeFi, NFTs and DAOs.