Stealth AI Startup

xLabs is a global remote Startup Studio. 

We are a group of interdisciplinarity ruled experts, humble and patient, composed of engineers, architects, AI, security, product, marketing, legal, coaches, business management; building a Startup Studio where humans and machines collaborate in venture creation and blended information systems with absolute provenance.

Feel free to get in touch! 

We're happy to talk with founders wanting to develop tech/deeptech ventures, core team founders, advisors, studios, other VC's and governments.

One thing we promise/act nevertheless: extreme logic, real words with meaning, critical thinking and hard truths, this we fight for!

Co-Founder & Ceo

(Digital Transformation, Data Governance, Data Quality, Regulatory Change, AI, Machine Learning, LLMs)

Led strategic data transformation initiatives for enterprise clients serving as trusted advisor to C-level executives (CDOs, CISOs, CFOs, CPOs) and senior leadership teams.

Key Engagements
•	Data Governance Transformation - Successfully relaunched a stalled data governance program for a major utility company, transitioning from traditional command-and-control to an agile data governance framework. Designed comprehensive roadmap with implementation strategy across organization, processes, standards, technology. Architected data fabric solutions leveraging Microsoft Purview and Databricks Unity Catalogue. (in partnership with Agile Solutions as Lead Consultant)
•	Data Privacy & Compliance - Provided expert guidance on privacy engineering frameworks and data governance, developing state of the art Privacy Ops methodologies to enable shift left compliance. (As Privacy Expert at the Council of Europe)
•	AI Governance - Conducted AI audits focusing on responsible AI implementation, privacy in AI development lifecycle, and AI risk governance frameworks (at UK leading publishing group)
•	Executive Coaching & Mentoring – As DAMA registered mentor, provided specialized coaching to data leaders, including heads of data governance at European manufacturing businesses, heads of data at global travel companies, and senior data scientists implementing governance programs in Pharma. Delivered Digital Transformation & AI plans to SMEs through the Help to Grow: Government Management Course.
•	Industry Thought Leadership - Regular speaker at industry events including Privacy-Enhancing Technology Summit EU, GDR Connect: Regulation & Digital Strategy; featured guest on The Data Diva Talks Privacy Podcast discussing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies.

Director of Data

Coaching & mentoring several professionals

Speaking: had something slightly valuable to say when given the freedom to speak my truth. 

-Privacy-Enhancing Technology Summit EU (London, February 27th-28th https://www.kisacoresearch.com/events/privacy-enhancing-technology-summit-europe-returns-2024
-The Data Diva Talks Privacy Podcast E139: Antonio Rocha https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-data-diva-talks-privacy-podcast/id1559159451?i=1000619214365  
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies Roundtable
- International Data Transfers by Brazil's OAB & ANPD
- AI Frameworks: from Policy to real life projects (FACAMP University, Brazil)
- Open Banking & Consent (w/ Central Bank of Brazil)

Coaching, Mentoring, Speaking

Prudential plc

Helped managing Privacy across US, UK, Africa & APAC

Modern multi-channel 3 distribution Digital Platform: Agents, Banks and Data Ecosystem 

Adaptable, consumer centric products with digital platform, AI and a data ecosystem with more than 20 partners, including Banks (as Standard Chartered), AI powered diagnostics and others.

•	Privacy Scope (Global: US, EU, Asia)
·	Hybrid role connecting Legal with Engineering & data driven Security & Privacy
•	Appointed Privacy Advisor to CDO Office, Data Transformation Initiative
•	Proposal of “Privacy Ops”, an IT driven framework for Privacy, AI powered/RegTech

Senior Global Privacy Specialist / Deputy Data Protection Officer / Global Data Governance Stewart 

Information Commissioner's Office

AI Audits - Subject Matter Expert Contributor / ICO’s AI Audits Framework Contributor (v1)

Subject Matter Expert

Led data management and privacy transformation initiatives across multiple industries including healthcare, energy, oil & gas, insurance, and public sector. Specialized in GDPR compliance, regulatory change management, and data & engineering management, both ops & strategy.

Key Projects:
-Contributed to CaaS Italian platform in the Health space
-Managed AI epilepsy medical device pilot with NHS Hospital, providing CTO coaching (Seer, Australia)
-Led global regulatory privacy transformation for Pharma (Clovis Oncology, Cambridge)
-Implemented GDPR compliance and privacy closure initiatives (Serco, UK)
-Developed data management strategy for FTSE 100 oil company (DS Ventures, London)
-Relaunched GDPR program for natural gas distribution network (Cadent Gas/National Grid, Coventry)
-Directed third-party data protection stream for global insurance group (AXA Group Operations, Paris)

Data Privacy & Data Management Consultant

Dataworks.ai

Co-Founder/DPO/Privacy Engineer of People Analytics SaaS Startup with goal to build EU jobs marketplace with automated matching using AI

Co-Founder

DataAI Ltd (UK)

DataAI was a Data Science startup company with HQ @ Imperial College Innovation & Cambridge University iDeaSpace

Build with Lean Methodology (Business Model Canvas, Customer Development, Agile Engineering); Jobs to be Done; to be an AI Startup studio / AI VC Fund

Won European Data Science Innovation Award

UK representative in Trusted Cloud Platform for Security & Privacy services of the European Institute of Innovation http://tinyurl.com/ycqm7ca6, an ecosystem of partners delivering solutions to safely store and manage data with British Telecom, Telecom Italia, F-Secure.

Projects/R&D

o	Solution for Defence French multinational Thales. Bid won vs 15 European startups, winning a European Data Science Innovation Award. Project was "Maritime Traffic Risk" and allowed automated tracking and detection of all ships in the Med, classification and risk assessment of abnormal maritime traffic for illegal fishing, organised crime, arms trade & nuclear weapons.

o	Solution for UK government for modelling healthcare spend cuts from NHS data

o	Solution for leading UK AI Pharma company to improve drug discovery using computational medicine, artificial intelligence and machine learning (Benevolent AI)

o	(Confidential) Solution for Australasia Government. Machine Learning to help social workers find and prioritise visits to children at risk of being molested.

o	Solution for UK government for fleet management and future business modelling considering over +65 influence (age).

o	R&D1: HRIS software project to find and match Data Scientists with industrial partners British Telecom and French public body Institute Mines-Telecom (France)

o	R&D2: YsYou: Facial recognition product based on a deep learning algorithm into an Arduino board. Feature extraction of emotional traces from human faces with: Gender, Age, Emotions and Stress

Result: Asset sale to SF based company (App Annie).

https://www.businessofapps.com/news/app-annie-is-now-data-ai/

Co-Founder & MD / AI PM / Data Strategist

Digital Catapult

The Digital Catapult is the UK innovation agency for advanced digital technology, developed in conjunction with Innovate UK as part of the Catapult centres. The Digital Catapult works with startups, industries, investors, public sector and academia to accelerate the adoption of new and emerging technologies, with the aim of driving regional, national and international growth for UK businesses across the economy. It's technology expertise includes artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, distributed systems, immersive technology (AR,VR), telecommunications (5G), quantum computing and the Internet of things.

My company DataAI first engaged the Digital Catapult for a briefing on an Data Innovation Challange competition all across Europe.

The challange was the Maritime Security Challange with the French Defence multinational Thales.

We won the challange against 15 EU/UK based companies, and DataAI was accepted into the Catapult ecosystem and awarded business incubation office space at Imperial College Innovation Campus. 

As part of that, I received extensive training and support. Thank you team!

Business Partner

Thales

- SME Integration Project Manager of EU funded AI R&D Risk & Predictive Analytics Platform for Maritime Intelligence purposes

Son of revolutionaries. Married with Logic. Father of Joy. Felling a little bit more human every day. 



Areas of professional interest

Leadership and ADHD 
New Data Business Models
Venture Capital & Startup Studios
Startups
Data Management & Governance
Data Ecosystems, Marketplaces/Platforms
Data Security & Privacy 
Data Architecture & Engineering 
RegTech (AI applied to Regulation, Risk & Compliance)

Building mathematical corporations and products can only happen by addressing complexity, leaving egos behind and focusing on mission control management. 

It's all about people and building high trust teams!

-Tribes: data, AI, security, privacy, regtech, startups and everything else "data". 
-Descriptors: happy, servant, coacher, humane, logical, frank, ethical, strategic, cultured, business, global.
-MBTI: INTJ-A (Mastermind/Architect, Assertive). 
-Learning Styles: Reflector (81%) & Pragmatist (74%) 

I use LinkedIn in a learning, free speech mode, that aims to bring change by having truthful convos.

This network is an hive mind space. Thank you for adding value to everyone.

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