John Foster is a technology industry veteran with a proven track record of strategic leadership and execution across the spectrum of stages, from startup through IPO. John has deep expertise in bringing nascent technologies to market across several industries, including voice, mobile and search. Prior to Aiqudo, John was CEO of Quixey, a pioneer in deep mobile search. Past roles include the strategic transformation of InfoSpace (NASDAQ INSP) which led to a highly successful outcome, as well as early roles with pioneering internet companies RealNetworks and NextLink.

John has a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Rajat Mukherjee leads the product and engineering teams at Aiqudo.

Prior to Aiqudo, Rajat was the CTO at Quixey, working on deep mobile search. Previously, he led the Ecommerce business within Yahoo Small Business. He launched Yahoo Stores and Yahoo Commerce Central after the acquisition of Lexity. Prior to that, he was product lead at Google on various products - Custom Search, Site Search, Search Appliance, Ads Automation, Alerts and related search on Google.com. Prior to Google, Rajat was senior director of product for Yahoo Search. Before Yahoo, Rajat was engineering director at Verity - he managed Ultraseek (formerly Inktomi Enterprise Search), Enterprise Web Search, Response and Federator. Rajat started his career as research staff member at IBM's Watson and Almaden Research Centers, working on parallel and scalable web servers, high availability in clustered computing, scalable transaction processing and content management. He contributed to infrastructure used during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the Deep Blue-Kasparov chess match.

Dr. Rajat Mukherjee holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, as well as a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He holds multiple software patents.

Dave has 26 years of experience working in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He started his career as a member of computing science faculty at the University of Ulster, in Northern Ireland, and later became Director of the University’s AI research Laboratory - an EU recognized centre of excellence. He then co-founded Sophia Ltd., a spin out from the University which was set up to commercially exploit the Natural Language Processing related IP generated within the laboratory. As Company CEO, he set up offices in Belfast, Northern Ireland, San Francisco, California, and St Petersburg, Russia, raising UK and US based Angel and Venture Capital investments along the way. In 2017, the company was acquired by Aiqudo, where he now works as Chief Science Officer. He has authored over 50 peer reviewed papers on AI and machine learning and has numerous patents in the fields of statistical NLP to his name.

Kevin Dillon is Managing Partner at Altlantic Bridge Ventures in London. Kevin has 30 years operating experience in the technology sector, including a total of 13 in Paris, London and Dublin as an executive in the software industry and five years in Silicon Valley. Kevin served as Vice President, Microsoft EMEA.

From 1985 through 1991, Kevin was an international tax advisor at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. In that capacity, he helped structure international growth, acquisitions and income repatriation planning for many leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to 1985, Kevin practiced law in South Africa, including serving as a Legal Officer in the South African Navy.