Our Team
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Koen Michiels - CEO & co-founder
🇧🇪 Koen holds a Master's in Marketing Communication Sciences and an Advanced Master of Science – magna cum laude – in Marketing Analysis from Ghent University.
He worked 7 years at dunnhumby in various roles, including promotions, trade intelligence & shopper thoughts in the UK. Later he became the head of the solutions team for the CZ & SK market, spearheading the innovation of cloud technologies, open-source software development and interactive data visualizations.
Koen has extensive experience in delivering insights at the board level.
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Jiří Tošovsky - COO & co-founder
🇨🇿 Jiří has spent the majority of his professional career in leading advertising agencies.
Before founding his marketing communication agency RMP, specializing in retail, he led the client service teams at Leo Burnett and Lowe in Prague.
Jiří has worked across a wide range of businesses, including both FMCG clients such as Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola, SAB Miller and financial service organizations such as GE Money, Raiffeisen Bank, Kooperativa, and CSOB.
Jiří has a vast experience in retail, having been responsible for the marketing communications of Tesco’s business for over 12 years.
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Sam Gilbert - Chief Data Scientist & co-founder
🇬🇧 Sam is a passionate data scientist specialising in helping retailers retain and grow their valuable customers by transforming big data customer analytics into actionable insights.
After graduating with first-class honours in mathematics, statistics and operational research, Sam spent seven years at dunnhumby, one of the world’s leading data science companies.
He led the Tesco UK stores marketing team, then later became the solutions lead for Tesco Central Europe. He developed customer segmentations alongside a targeted communications platform to drive customer loyalty there.
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Alex Morgan - Chief Revenue Officer
🇬🇧 Alex , is responsible for growing our business, developing existing clients and acquiring new ones.
He graduated in Geography & Management Studies from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
Prior experience includes leading commercial and marketing functions at major blue-chip international retailers and driving business development across international markets in the retail analytics sector.
Alex is family-focused and enjoys travel.
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Juraj Pohanka - CTO
🇸🇰 Juraj leads the technical development. Covering application development, data engineering, and data science. Juraj studied pure and applied mathematics at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Juraj’s experience includes Deloitte – as a financial modeller – and Deutsche Boerse as a software developer.
Juraj is passionate about modern technologies and mathematical models.
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Michal Cepek - Client Solutions Lead
🇨🇿 Michal is leading the datasapiens’ Business team, and his primary responsibility is to ensure client satisfaction with our solutions. He also covers client acquisition and manages the successful expansion of our partner network.
After graduating from the Prague University of Economics and Business, Michal started his career in Danone’s marketing team. Then he spent seven years at Nielsen, the world’s leading market research company. There, Michal worked in multiple positions, including a managerial stay in the Netherlands; most recently, he led an analytical department for CZ&SK.
In all his roles, Michal dealt with major FMCG players helping them grow their businesses through data-driven decisions.
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David Haraga - Application Lead
🇸🇰 David is responsible for the platform backend. He is tuning our systems and tools to get the most out of the platform.
David has been interested in programming since grammar school. He went on to study IT at Charles University in Prague.
His professional experience includes working on a mainframe database engine at CA, petrol station systems for NCR and energy management solutions for Foxconn DRC, using many languages ranging from mainframe assembler to JavaScript.
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Lukáš Matuška - Senior Data Scientists & Data Protection Officer
🇨🇿 Lukáš has been enjoying data and visualizations since grammar school.
It all started with an NHL player’s statistics and a world atlas he received for his birthday.
In datasapiens, his core activities are CRM evaluations, ad-hoc insights and personal data protection. Before joining datasapiens Lukáš has over five years of experience in retail and CRM data analysis – delivering pricing, promotional, range and availability solutions for one of the world’s leading customer science companies, dunnhumby.
He also worked for the market research agency NMS and acquired Media and PR experience with Metro Newspapers and within the European Commission’s Spokesperson’s Service.
Lukáš graduated in Sociology, majoring in applied market research.
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Lucie Klesova - Data Scientist
🇨🇿 Lucie leads product configuration for our clients. Lucie has been a data enthusiast since the days of her first computer and Excel 95.
She holds a master’s degree in Economics and Public Health Protection. Lucie worked as a CRM data analyst in Telco for the consultancy Ogilvy.
She later moved to dunnhumby where she gained experience in retail as a data analyst. This expanded her skill set in programming, statistics, data wrangling and visualizations skills.
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Lenka Šestáková - CRM Specialist & Data Scientist
🇨🇿 Lenka works as a Data Scientist specializing in CRM insights.
She studied Transportation sciences at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Before datasapiens, Lenka worked in the logistics planning department at Siemens VDO and as an IT Business analyst at Nestlé. Lenka enjoys working with data and numbers and especially quantifying decisions.
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Veronika Lhotakova - Executive Assistant
Veronika is a member of datasapiens operations team. She takes care of the team itself.
She studied creative writing and media communication at the Literature Academy.
Veronika has a passion for organizing anything.
Previously Veronika worked in companies such as Sekyra Group, ING REIM, or Euromedia a.s.
Veronika is the mastermind behind all of our team events, and she creates an unforgettable experience for the team.
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Dian de Kock - Business Intelligence Specialist
🇿🇦 Dian is a part of the datasapiens product team.
He is a chartered accountant by trade who gradually moved to the business intelligence field.
Dian has worked as a reconciliation specialist at a fintech startup and a Sage X3 ERP consultant at a consulting firm.
Excel,Python, and SQL are his toolbox's three most used tools.
Dian enjoys working with numbers and big data.
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Branislav Václav - Senior FE Developer & UX/UI designer
🇸🇰 Braňo is an experienced UI Engineer focused primarily on product design and interface development.
He is responsible for the front end, covering and maintaining our design system, creating UI prototypes, and implementing the platform’s interface.
Throughout his career, Braňo has worked on multiple data-focused projects, taking care of the visual and usability aspects of the user interface.
He is passionate about contemporary design trends, efficient interaction patterns, and modern development tools and frameworks.
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Marcin Majka - Backend Software Engineer
🇵🇱 Marcin is part of the datasapiens backend team.
He is a big fan of Golang and cloud programming with extensive experience in Java.
Marcin graduated from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.
His professional experience includes several areas: configuration and implementation of telecommunication billing system (OPSC Gold created by Orga Systems), development and implementation of ABAS ERP system and other Golang and AWS development for companies as Showpad, Picstars and GlobalLogic.