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USAMA M. FAYYAD
Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D. is Group Chief Data Officer at Barclays in London
where his responsibilities include building and delivering the data
infrastructure for BI, data warehousing, BigData and analytics/insights
technologies across the Barclays Group globally as well as data governance,
and enterprise Data Architecture. He also took on an additional role at Barclays as CIO of Risk,
Finance, and Treasury Technology.
He is Chairman of Oasis500 in Jordan following his appointment in 2010 by King Abdullah II of
Jordan to be the founding Executive Chairman. Oasis500 a tech startup investment fund that
runs an accelerator, entrepreneurship training program, and angel investment network aiming to
fund 500 Internet and Technology startups in the MENA Region. From 2011-2013 he served as
Chairman & CTO of BlueKangaroo, a mobile search engine to help consumers benefit from the
vast offers environment that is difficult to search and benefit from.
Up until September 2008, Fayyad was based in Sunnyvale, CA as Yahoo!'s chief data officer &
Executive VP responsible for Yahoo!'s global data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and
systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing the Company's data analytics and data
processing infrastructure which processed over 25 Terabytes of data per day. He was the
industry’s first Chief Data Officer. Under his EVP role, Fayyad also founded and managed the
Yahoo! Research Labs organization with offices around the world to develop the new sciences of
the Internet, on-line marketing, Microeconomics, and algorithmic Advertising. At Yahoo! he
applied Big Data techniques to content and advertising targeting and built the world’s largest
group of data scientist – helping Yahoo! grow its revenues from user targeting by 20 times in 4
years. After Yahoo! and prior to Barclays he founded Open Insights, LLC a data strategy,
technology and consulting firm based in Bellevue, WA to help the largest Telcos and Tech
companies understand data strategy and deploy data-driven solutions that effectively and
dramatically grow revenue and competitive advantages. Open Insights also worked with major
private equity and investment firms to help prioritize and analyze investment opportunities.
In 2003 Fayyad co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy consulting
and technology company specializing in BigData Analytics major projects with Fortune 500
clients. DMX Group was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. In early 2000, he co-founded and served as
CEO of Audience Science (digiMine, Inc.), a venture backed company addressing hosted business
analytics and leading the market in targeted advertising.
From 1995 to 2000, Fayyad was at Microsoft in Redmond, WA where he led the data mining and
exploration group at Microsoft Research and headed the data mining products group for
Microsoft's server division. From 1989 to 1996 Fayyad held a leadership role at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where his work in the analysis and exploration of Big Data in
scientific applications gathered from observatories, remote-sensing platforms and spacecraft
garnered him the top research excellence award that Caltech awards to JPL scientists, as well as
a U.S. Government medal from NASA.
Fayyad earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991), and
also holds BSE's in both electrical and computer engineering (1984); MSE in computer science
and engineering (1986); and M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). He has published over 100 technical
articles in the fields of data mining, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and databases. He
holds over 30 patents, is a Fellow of the AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence) and a Fellow of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), has edited two
influential books on the data mining and launched and served as editor-in-chief of both the
primary scientific journal in the field of data mining (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) and
the primary newsletter in the technical community published by the ACM: SIGKDD Explorations.
He continues to be active in the academic community serving as Chairman Emeritus and Director
of ACM’s SIGKDD Executive Committee which runs the world’s premiere data science, big data,
and data mining conferences: the KDD international annual conferences. He is a recipient of the
ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2007) and Service Award (2003) – the only person to receive
both awards.
Fayyad serves on the advisory boards and boards of directors of several private, public, as well
as non-for-profit and academic organizations. He regularly delivers keynotes on BigData, Data
Mining, Predictive Analytics, Data Strategy, and Entrepreneurship at many international
conferences and forums.