Dr Leslie Kanthan is the CEO and co-founder of TurinTech, a company that helps businesses create, deploy and optimise AI by automating the whole data science lifecycle.
Kanthan founded TurinTech in 2018 with three University College London (UCL) researchers from the Department of Computer Science.
The TurinTech founder previously worked for Credit Suisse, Bank of America, and Commerzbank, bringing with him his expertise in graph theory, quantitative research, and efficient similarity search techniques.
The London-headquartered company has raised a total of $5.4m (£4m) in funding, including a £1m seed round in 2019.
In the latest Founder in Five Q&A, Kanthan explains AI’s role in sustainability, shares how some employees have become “diversity champions” and reveals the activities TurinTech promotes to avoid burnout....