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Aaron Zhao is a Senior Data Scientist at GFT Financial Ltd., with extensive experience delivering AI/ML solutions that unlock business value for clients in the financial sector. He recently led the development of a vector similarity search engine for entity matching, leveraging LLMs and the nearest neighbour algorithm, for a leading multinational investment bank. Aaron holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Phil Claridge is a 'virtual CTO' for hire within Mandrel Systems covering end-to-end systems. Currently having fun and helping others with large-scale AI systems integration, country-wide large scale big-data processing, hands-on IoT technology (from sensor hardware design, through LoRa integration to back end systems), and advanced city information modelling. Supporting companies with M&A 'exit readiness', due-diligence and on advisory boards. Past roles include: CTO, Chief Architect, Labs Director, and Technical Evangelist for Geneva/Convergys (telco), Arieso/Viavi (geolocation), and Madge (networking). Phil's early career was in electronics, and still finds it irresistible to swap from Powerpoint to a soldering iron and a compiler to produce proof-of-concepts when required.
