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Michael Covert, CEO, Analytics Inside LLC, has significant experience in a variety of business and technical roles. Michael is a mathematician and computer scientist and is involved in machine learning, deep learning, predictive analytics, graph theory, and big data. He earned a bachelor's of science degree in mathematics with honors and distinction from The Ohio State University. He also attended it as a PhD student, specializing in machine learning and high-performance computing. Michael is a Cloudera Hadoop Certified Developer. Michael served as the vice president of performance management in Whittman-Hart, Inc., based in Chicago, and as the chief operating officer of Infinis, Inc., a business intelligence consulting company based in Columbus, Ohio. Infinis merged with Whittman-Hart in 2005. Prior to working at Infinis, Michael was the vice president of product development and chief technology officer at Alta Analytics, and the producer of data mining and visualization software. In addition to this, he has served in technology management roles for Claremont Technology Group, Inc., where he was the director of advanced technology.

Victoria Loewengart, COO, Analytics Inside LLC, is an innovative software systems architect with a proven record of bringing emerging technologies to clients through discovery, design, and integration. Additionally, Victoria spent a large part of her career developing software technologies that extract information from unstructured text. Victoria has published numerous articles on topics ranging from text analytics to intelligence analysis and cyber security. Her book An Introduction to Hacking & Crimeware: A Pocket Guide was published by IT Governance, UK, in January 2012. Victoria earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Purdue University and a master's degree in intelligence studies from the American Military University.