Akli Adjaoute
Founder & CEO
Technology, Entrepreneur
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Akli Adjaoute is the Founder of Exponion, a venture capital firm that provides cutting-edge startup companies with the financial resources and expertise they need to achieve success.
Prior to Exponion, Akli was the founder and CEO of Brighterion, acquired by Mastercard. Brighterion provides enterprise Al applications for payment service providers, financial institutions, healthcare payers, and merchants. Brighterion’s A.I. solution is trusted by 74 of the top 100 U.S. banks and more than 2,000 customers worldwide, processing over 150+ billion transactions annually. Brighterion is also successfully applied in homeland security, healthcare, anti-money laundering, credit risk, default prediction, and data breach detection. Brighterion has received multiple awards, including the Innovation World Series Award, the Morgan Stanley Fintech Award, the Business Intelligence Group’s 2022 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award, the U.S. FinTech Award’s 2022 Banking Tech of the Year, the 2021 Business Transformation 150, and the 2020 Fortress Cyber Security Award for Threat Detection.
Before founding Brighterion, Akli Adjaoute was the founder, President, and CEO of Conception En Intelligence Artificielle (Paris, France), developer of MINDSuite, an artificial intelligence platform, combining the power of Smart Agents, Neural Networks, Business Rules, Genetic Algorithms, Constraint Programming, Fuzzy Logic, and Cased-based Reasoning. MINDsuite was successfully applied in Defense, pharmaceuticals, Financials, Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities, and Healthcare. Conception en Intelligence Artificielle received the Best Technology Company of the year award by 3IA France.
Akli Adjaoute is a renowned academic, speaker, and writer on the subjects of A.I. and security. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) and as the Head of the A.I. department and Scientific Committee Chair at EPITA, one of Europe’s leading computer science universities.
Akli Adjaoute has been awarded 20+ patents. He has a master’s degree in computer science from the Université de Technologies de Compiègne and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie.
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