About PredictX

Keesup started as an aspiring jazz musician in New York, barely eeking out a living waiting tables at Sweet Basil Jazz Club in Greenwich Village. Realising that he needed a “day gig”, much like Chance Gardner he somehow found himself on the trading floor of Wall Street trading derivatives. When he found out that multi-billion dollar portfolios were managed on spreadsheets, he moved to Palo Alto to found Renaissance Software Inc, the first distributed system for managing financial derivatives. He recorded his first CD, “Strange Attractor” in 1992. Since then, Keesup’s career straddled finance and software. He has run his own hedge fund, acted as head of trading for major investment banks in the City and Wall Street as well as successfully growing startup software companies in Silicon Valley and London. Keesup’s particular passion is empowering business executives with the tools and technologies to make smarter and faster decisions based on data and analytics. And discovering new jazz musicians.

After spending 22 years in the City of London in various senior roles including head of Interest Rate Derivatives, Funding and Trading various European interest rate portfolios, Ayesha rose to Treasurer of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, responsible for financial strategy and operations including long term funding, asset-liability management and investment and trading of €11Billion. She has been awarded Asian Women of Achievement Business Woman of the Year as well as being polled one of Euromoney’s Top 50 Women in Finance.

After joining the company in 2009, Andrew has played a central role in setting up and developing the company’s Retail, Insurance and integrated Health & Social Care solutions. Andy is responsible for the day-to-day running of these three business lines and leading on product development. He has played a key role in driving through a number of technical enhancements across the business to help keep PredictX at the forefront of technology, whilst maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction. He has recently taken on a larger role within the company as the Vice President of Solutions Engineering. Outside of work, Andy is a keen cyclist and enjoys five-a-side football.

Tom is Managing Director, North America for PredictX, and he brings to the role over two decades of leadership and domain experience in the data business. Tom’s primary passion is in helping customers make smarter, faster, data driven decisions for their businesses. As a catalyst for change, he has been helping companies find new ways of leveraging the data they own for opportunities including cost savings through; operational efficiencies, supplier management, program management and policy compliance directives. Combining the power of cloud computing, industry best practices, and predictive analytics, Tom has been highly successful at driving high return on information and investment to corporate clients.

Ozelin leads the Software Development Life Cycle management at the company. A true believer in the Agile Methodology, Ozelin is responsible for using best of breed technologies to build solutions that help customers achieve their goals. Prior to PredictX, Ozelin worked for more than 15 years in the Smart Data arena within start-ups, with a particular focus on research. With a strong background in software development, project and product management, and strategic research, Ozelin’s primary focus is on delivering cutting-edge innovation within Predict.X’s product development programmes. Outside of work, Ozelin can be found either reading a book, watching a movie, enjoying time with his children, or sampling Mediterranean food.

Kevin joined PredictX as a programmer in 1991 and has been responsible for the technical direction of the company since the mid ‘90s from Pricetrak to PredictX. Kevin is in charge of infrastructure at PredictX and is actively migrating the company to an in-house cloud based solution using devops for management. During his time at PredictX he has promoted the early use of new technologies to keep at the cutting edge. These include the early use of Windows, using the commercial internet in the mid ‘90s for report delivery and the early adoption of Linux as a server operating system. Outside of work, Kevin enjoys reading and camping.

Simon has played a pivotal role in the development of Predict.X Procurement, Travel and Talent since 2008. Simon is responsible for guiding both new and existing product strategies from initial concept through to prototype, launch and post-launch development. In addition, Simon has overall responsibility for the smooth and successful operation of the Analytics solution line. Simon is passionate about building products customers love and is usually deployed at the frontier between the technical and commercial worlds. Simon can often be found immersed in international politics, business, and technology.