ID Talks Live: Credit Risk Scoring

Brian is the FinTech Vertical Lead at GSMA leading activities to enhance collaboration between the Financial Services vertical and the mobile eco-system. This reflects the strategy requested by the GSMA board to get closer to key verticals and better understand their needs.

His career includes product and commercial management in banking and mobile telecoms including O2, Lloyds and Barclays. As well as Telecomms, heading up the Digital Product team, Commerce, at Telefonica UK.

Marek is responsible for Credit Management unit in O2 Czech Republic (before Telefonica Czech Republic), telecommunication leader in Czech Republic-from 2006. Prior to his role at O2 are Credit Scoring, Credit Risk Strategy, Collection process, Revenue Assurance and Settlement with Sales network. He was responsible for integration of both teams during merge of fixed provider (Czech Telecom) and mobile operator (Eurotel Praha), for implementation of new Credit Scoring and Collection solution and many other projects. He began his career in the Investment and Post Bank. Next nine years he spent on the Czech capital market, working in different brokerage houses trading on Prague Stock Exchange as Head broker, Manager of Trading and four years as CEO of P&P Brokers (later Charles Bridge Securities). Marek is Vice-Chairman of SOLUS (Credit Bureau in Czech Republic), responsible and representing Telecommunication sector. He is also Executive Director of O2 Financial Services, daughter company of O2 Czech Republic, providing new financial services for O2 customers and partners.

Emrah serves as COO of Organon Analytics, which is the place that he could pursue his passion for connecting algorithms with the data. It is his and the company’s vision to make artificial intelligence available to everyone. He has led the development of more than 250 systems that are based on AI and machine learning in different sectors such as banking, telecommunications, entertainment, transportation and cyber security. These systems helped companies and business professionals to make more than 500 billion decisions. He has 13 years of industry experience in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in statistics and a master’s degree in financial engineering

Çağatay works as a Senior Product Manager in Turkcell. He’s responsible for Big Data & Analytics services which could be summarized as the predictive intelligence services for B2B customers. These services contribute to the strategy, business development, and marketing actions of corporate companies. As the product owner, he holds strong strategic, commercial, and technical capabilities while his main purpose is to add monetary and intellectual value to corporate customers’ business operations.  He holds a bachelor and an MSc degree in Industrial Engineering and he is also an MBA candidate.

Up to date, Çağatay has contributed to more than 50 projects in finance, retail, logistics, manufacturing, and FMCG industries in the fields of big data services, insight analytics, advanced analytics, cloud computing, software as a service, and marketing analytics. All of them had a significant impact on companies’ strategies and contributed positively to companies’ finances.

Pavel leads a team of data scientists focusing on the financial sector and customer behaviour analysis. He focuses on the development of risk prediction with various machine learning techniques.

His career involves telco/insurance/banking data analysis at SAS Institute, Czech Republic, later financial services consulting at EY (Ernst & Young), Prague. He switched from consulting towards a bank client-side when working for Komerční Banka, part of Société Générale international group.

Pavel received her master’s degree in Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. During his studies, he worked closely with Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague.