Dr Manish Patel, former CTO and now CEO of Jiva.ai, is the technical architect and creator of the core technology that underpins the Jiva platform which is a new machine learning algorithm that will form the basis of a new breed of AIs. Manish has a doctorate in mathematical modelling with an emphasis on dealing with large, complex datasets but he hasn’t always been on the computational end of business. Having read Molecular Genetics at King College London (2001) Manish went on to a Masters in Bioinformatics at Birkbeck College. With this firm life sciences basis, and a growing understanding of computational biology, he then went into short term roles in bioinformatics research at the department of Biochemistry at University College London before deciding to take the plunge into a PhD in mathematical and computational modelling of cancer. Post-PhD, Manish went on to hold technical roles at banks and hedge funds, specifically gaining proficiency in high frequency, low latency systems within algorithmic trading platforms. Manish is a serial CTO-er, and has helped drive and advise on tech at a number of startups including Epicuri, Cupris and ZavFit before founding and building the technology at Jiva.