Hristo Hadjitchonev

"Hristo iis passionate about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and had 25 years in the software development industry and 17 into analytics and data mining. He spend his earlier days as a freelancer, in 1994 co-founded Taurus - a company established to develop business software for Apple. In 1999 Hristo moved in the start-up Rila Solutions, at that period being the first foreign investment in the IT sector in Bulgaria and for long years the most successful software development countrywide. Meanwhile, he finished MSc in Analytical modeling of Economic systems building on top of his interest of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining solutions. As a Senior Developer and Architect, Hristo delivered several products in the analytics space. At this time, he had successful stories in project management as well. In 2006, Hristo joined HP as a Program Manager in HP Global Delivery managing some silver and gold deals for clients such as Anglo American and KONE. In a short time in 2007, his passion for Analytics and Data Mining led Hristo to Experian Decision Analytics targeting at that moment to settle development division in Bulgaria. As a Head of the Development he built a team that reached 200 software specialists delivering products with annual revenue of 80 million USD for mathematical modeling for a decision-making and risk management, financial scorecard development, fraud prevention, debt collection and customer management. In 2013, Hristo took the challenge, to establish and manage a global team of 20+ Business Analysts responsible for the roadmap of the entire portfolio of software products in Experian Decision Analytics with annual revenue of 300 million USD. In 2015, Hristo was invited to join the Experian DA senior management team as Director of Projects and Operations.
In 2016 he return back to his entrepreneurial origins and co-founded A4E (www.a4everyone.com) a company dedicated to deliver analytics to medium enterprises via our AIaaS (Artificial Intelligence as a Service) platform. "