Team

Meet our research team.

Taktile Labs is powered by a dedicated internal research team and an external Research Council and Advisory Board. This collaboration helps us steer priorities and ensure our research has relevance for the financial services industry at large.

Advisory Board

Parag Agrawal

Parallel Web Systems

Former CEO and CTO of Twitter. Founder of Parallel. PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Tom Glocer

Founder, Investor and Morgan Stanley Lead Director

Founder, Investor and Morgan Stanley Lead Director. Former CEO of Thomson Reuters. Founder of Angelic Ventures.

Robin Greenwood

Harvard Business School

George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking. Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research.

Karim Lakhani

Harvard Business School

Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Chair of the D^3 Institute at Harvard.

Tina Reich

ROC Partners

Founder of ROC Partners. Former Chief Credit Officer of American Express.

Harald Schneider

Equifax

Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Equifax. Former Global Head of Data Products at Visa.

Jill Zucker Sheckman

Varo Bank

EVP of Credit Strategy and Portfolio Management at Varo Bank. Former Chief Credit Officer at PayPal and AmEx.

Research Council

Fagner Abreu

Bradesco

Credit Risk Executive at Bradesco, one of the largest banks in Latin America serving over 70 million customers.

Ben Liebald

Harvey

VP of Engineering at Harvey. Previously Senior Director of Engineering at Figma and CTO at Branch International.

Daniel Meyer

Camunda

CTO of Camunda. Expert in workflow automation and agentic AI integration for enterprise process orchestration.

Jonas Nelle

Cursor

Leads Async Agents engineering at Cursor. Previously co-founded Autotab (acq. by Cursor). Former Taktile and Palantir.

Mikey Shulman

Suno

Co-Founder and CEO of Suno. PhD from Harvard. Previously at Kensho Technologies for financial AI.

Henry Venturelli

Intuit

Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Intuit. Holds multiple AI/ML patents. Published at ACM KDD.

Pieter Viljoen

Allianz

Chief Data Officer at Allianz Partners. Over two decades of experience in data architecture and AI for insurance.

Michael Zambrano

Flexcar

Chief Risk Officer at Flexcar. Extensive experience in fraud, lending risk, and loss forecasting.

Research Team

David Ahn

AI Engineer

MSE in Data Science and AI, BSE in Systems Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Maximilian Eber, PhD

Founder & CPTO

Co-Founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer of Taktile. PhD from Harvard. Studied Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics at LSE and Oxford.

Nico Klees

Senior Solutions Engineer

MSc in Econometrics from LSE. BSc in Industrial Engineering from KIT. Works directly on AI implementations with financial institutions.

Alexia Pastré

Head of Taktile Labs

MSc in Physics from ETH Zurich. MBA from Harvard Business School. Former McKinsey & Company.

Fabian Peters, PhD

Principal Product Manager

Joined Taktile as employee #12. Shapes the product vision for AI-powered decisioning tools for financial institutions.

Robin Raymond, PhD

Principal Engineer

PhD in Mathematics from Göttingen. Dual Master’s in Mathematics and Physics from Tübingen.