Paul is a pioneer in helping companies to win by becoming more data driven. He's also an experienced entrepreneur with a track record for building world-class companies. In 2000 he founded Touch Clarity, a software company that developed the online content targeting platform that was to become the platform of choice for the largest consumer Financial Service companies, including American Express, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. Following the acquisition of Touch Clarity, Paul worked as VP Test & Target at Omniture Inc. until 2008. Prior to 2000 he was a Managing Director for Urban Science, a retail network planning and database marketing company with an outstanding data mining team that won the KDD Cup twice. Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences about marketing, customer experience and analytics. He also maintains a close relationship with the academic community - most recently as part of the Strategic Advisory Council for PASCAL, an initiative for advancing the sharing of knowledge relating to pattern analysis and statistical computational learning. Paul holds a BSc from Bristol University.
Jason's early career was in particle physics, including research at Stanford University into the fine differences between matter and antimatter. He specialized in detector triggering systems, leading edge electronics and software systems that process huge volumes of data in real time to identify rare particle collisions for further analysis. In the decade since then, he has led teams in the design and development of high performance enterprise software applications to record and analyze large and complex sets of business data, using a variety of meta-modeling and data mining techniques. He holds a first-class degree in Physics from Imperial College, London and a doctorate in Particle Physics from Oxford University.
Gareth has been bringing exciting products to market for over 15 years. At Causata he is focused on product management, marketing and business development. Gareth was previously a member of the Skype executive team as the General Manager for the global Mobile and Hardware Devices division. He joined Skype in 2005 before the eBay acquisition and built the team that introduced Skype on the iPhone and many other mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Prior to Skype, Gareth ran marketing for Red Hat’s core product Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Gareth started his career in the telecom semiconductor industry as a chip designer. Gareth has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Rob is responsible for Causata’s sales operations. Rob brings a 15 year track record of successful sales experience providing technology solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. He has extensive knowledge of website optimization, behavioral targeting, email marketing and database marketing. Prior to Causata, Rob held leadership positions at two highly successful early stage technology companies, FloNetwork and Touch Clarity. Rob went on to become a key contributor at DoubleClick, Epsilon and Omniture (recently acquired by Adobe Systems) where he delivered technology solutions to address customer needs in display advertising, email marketing, advanced analytics and optimization. Rob earned B.A. degrees in Political Science and History at California State University, Chico.
