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OUR TEAM
Doug Fearing
Co-Founder & CEO
Doug founded the Dodgers R&D department, grew it to a staff of 20 over four seasons, and reached the World Series in both 2017 and 2018...
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Luke Bornn
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
After leading analytics efforts at the Italian soccer club A.S. Roma, Luke took on the role of VP of Strategy & Analytics for the Sacramento Kings in...
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Inderpal Singh
Chief Operating Officer
Prior to joining Zelus, Inderpal founded Northshore Partners, a boutique strategy consulting firm. Previously, he spent time in...
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Dan Cervone
Co-Founder & Principal Data Scientist
The former Director of Quantitative Research with the LA Dodgers and Moore-Sloan Fellow at NYU’s Center for Data Science...
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Stephanie Kovalchik
Staff Data Scientist
Stephanie led data science innovation for the Game Insight Group of Tennis Australia, building first-of-a-kind metrics and real-time...
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Bryan Yu
Director, Engineering
Bryan was previously in charge of data architecture and building statistical models for the public equities quantitative...
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Andrew Galdi
Director, Product & Strategy
Andy founded the Phillies R&D department, leading software development and data science for 6 seasons. His diverse career began in...
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Karim Kassam
Director, Product & Strategy
Karim founded the research group at the Pittsburgh Steelers, leading data science for football operations. He’s also led data science efforts...
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Kevin Meers
Director, Product & Strategy
Kevin led the football analytics group at the Cleveland Browns before pursuing his MBA at Harvard Business School, which he...
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Matthew Hurbi
Director, Finance & Accounting
Most recently leading and restructuring the B2B team as Director of Finance & Admin at GCI (part of Liberty Broadband), Matthew...
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Kimberley Kissoyan
Manager, Operations
Kimberley cut her operations/management teeth building the Collections department of a midsize law firm in DC into its own...
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Chris Pickard
Product Manager
After earning his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University, Chris joined the Sacramento Kings as a Senior Analyst; he built analysis...
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Amol Desai
Product Manager
Amol is an experienced Data Science leader in the Tech industry. He has been a freelance consultant at Cricviz, conducts...
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Jacob Mortensen
Senior Data Scientist
Jacob recently graduated with his PhD in Statistics from Simon Fraser University, where he completed his thesis on statistical...
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Javier Fernandez
Senior Data Scientist
Javier led FC Barcelona's sports analytics department for five years, working closely with top-level coaches. His PhD and MSc theses are...
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Kevin Ferris
Senior Data Scientist
Kevin’s extensive experience supporting data-driven decision making and predictive modeling in baseball was developed in...
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Ivana Šerić
Senior Product Scientist
Ivana spent four seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers, providing coaches with data-driven insight...
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Andrew Hopen
Data Scientist
Andrew previously worked in the analytics departments of the New York Yankees and LA Dodgers. He completed his M.S. in Data Science at...
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Ozan Adıgüzel
Machine Learning Engineer
Ozan earned an MA in Statistics from Columbia U as well as a BSc in Statistics from Brown U, where he served as co-president...
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Matthew Reyers
Data Scientist
While at Simon Fraser U., Matthew and his team won the NFL Big Data Bowl in 2019 and gained honourable mention in 2020...
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Lucas Wu
Data Scientist
Lucas recently graduated with his PhD in Statistics from Simon Fraser University, where his thesis was on soccer analytics ...
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Arielle Dror
Data Scientist
Arielle is a recent graduate of Smith College with degrees in Statistical & Data Sciences and Government, and experience in data-driven...
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Lydia Jackson
Machine Learning Engineer
A professional soccer player for four different countries, Lydia competed most recently for the NWSL’s Chicago Red Stars...
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Matthew van Bommel
Machine Learning Engineer
Matt spent three seasons working with the Sacramento Kings and has published research examining biases and inconsistencies of...
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Shannon Towey
Software Engineer
Shannon has worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, most recently on mission operations for the Mars 2020 Perseverance...
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Bryce Rogan
Data Scientist
Bryce worked for three years in the Los Angeles Angels analytics department after earning a BA in mathematics from Pomona College...
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Tyrel Stokes
Data Scientist
Tyrel is a PhD student in Statistics at McGill University, where he is interested in causal inference, Bayesian methods, and applications...
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Andrew McLean
Data Engineer
Andrew’s love of start-ups and cloud-based data processing systems brought him to Austin; at Nano Vision he helped build a real-time...
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Casey Thayer
Machine Learning Engineer
From building data solutions for cancer immunotherapy research, to using AI/ML skills to combat school violence, to evaluating vaccine efficacy...
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Surya Kocherlakota
Machine Learning Engineer
Since completing his Masters at Imperial College London, Surya has worked on a range of Data Science R&D projects, including a COVID-19...
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Adrià Arbués-Sangüesa
Data Scientist
Adrià is an audiovisual engineer who newly obtained his PhD, which covered tracking-related topics such as player orientation...
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Evan Miyakawa
Data Scientist
Evan obtained his Ph.D. in statistics from Baylor University, where he specialized in Bayesian methods, computational..
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Ethan Douglas
Data Scientist
Coming to Zelus directly from The Athletic where he built and published a predictive NFL team rating system, Ethan’s broad experience in...
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Steven Orgill
Data Scientist
After completing his BS and MS in Statistics from BYU, Steven spent a season in the R&D group at the Minnesota Twins. Prior to focusing on...
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Ishan Mehta
Data Scientist
After earning an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSD in 2021, Ishan interned with the San Diego Padres Research...
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Guido Petri
Machine Learning Engineer
Guido was born in São Paulo, has a BSc in chemical engineering from TU Berlin, and an MS in data science from NYU. Previously, he...
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Esteban Navarro Garaiz
Product Scientist
A Data Scientist shifting his focus to product, Esteban spent the two years prior to Zelus as a Quantitative Analyst at the Dodgers...
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Nicholas Beck
Data Scientist
Nick recently completed a PhD in Statistics at McGill University where his thesis focused on the evaluation of extreme multivariate risks...
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Pascal Bauer
Data Scientist
With an MSc in math, Pascal earned his PhD from Tübingen University; his Doctoral thesis investigated the automated detection of...
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Hannah Gaudet
Machine Learning Engineer
After graduating with a BS in math from MIT, Hannah spent 2.5 years with the Philadelphia Phillies, where they led the team's ML...
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Yagmur Yuksel
Data Scientist
Yagmur earned her BS in Economics and Physics from Yale. Before shifting to sports analytics, she was a Research Fellow...
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Brendan Kumagai
Data Scientist
As a MSc in Statistics student at Simon Fraser Univ, Brendan was part of the 1st place teams in the 2022 NFL Big...
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James Cryne
Data Scientist
After gaining his MSci in Mathematics from Imperial College London, James began full-time work at Barnsley FC building...
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Jason Vicente
Machine Learning Engineer
After completing a BS in Data Mining, Jason joined Ernst & Young as a consultant focusing on performance improvement...
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Tan Ho
Machine Learning Engineer
As a maintainer of the nflverse & ffverse CRAN packages, Tan is a prolific R developer and a hyperactive...
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Paweł Kapuściński
Data Engineer
After years of working in various data roles in tech companies ranging from early stage startup to big enterprise, Pawel decided to...
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Calvin Floyd
Data Engineer
Cal spent four seasons at the Sacramento Kings, supporting the coaching staff with analytics and helping to optimize decision making in the front office...
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Sean O’Connor
Machine Learning Engineer
After graduating with a BSc in Computer Science, Sean joined Deutsche Bank as a technology analyst, before moving onto...
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Sergio Llana Pérez
Data Scientist
Sergio worked for three years as a data scientist with FC Barcelona's sports analytics department and led their team for one more...
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Annabelle Redelmeier
Data Scientist
Annabelle obtained a MSc in statistics from McGill University, where she wrote her masters thesis on modelling extreme sports injuries...
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Ethan Baron
Data Scientist Intern
Ethan leads the University of Toronto Sports Analytics student group while completing his undergraduate engineering...
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