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About Us

After Frank Giaoui suffered devastating damages, he discovered the unscientific and judicial uncertainty of damages compensation. To pursue the subject further, he conducted six years of legal research and two years of data and computer science research between Columbia University and La Sarbonne. In 2020, he founded the insurtech Optimalex with Jòan Gondolo, Luv Aggarwaland Philippe Lachkeur, to usher in a new paradigm of rationality, consistency, and fairness in insurance claims adjusting and risk management by pioneering new techniques in legal predictive analytics.

Frank Giaoui is an academic and entrepreneur. He has advised corporations and negotiated contracts since 1986 with Bain and Company, Oliver Wyman, Kingfisher PLC, and then his own boutique investment bank Hera Finance. He was a co-founder of Apollo Invest (VC Fund) and a shareholder of Liberty Surf and MediMania (internet pioneers in Europe). Additionally, after receiving an MBA from Essec Business School and a PhD from La Sorbonne Law School, he has served as a teaching fellow at University of Lorraine (in law and economics), and, as a Post Doc JSD at Columbia Law School. He is based in New York City.

 

Co-founders Jòan Gondolo, Luv Aggarwal, and Philippe Lachkeur are respectively PhD researcher teaching fellow at La Sorbonne Law School, MS in Computer Science from Columbia School of Engineering and MBA at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and MS in Engineering Data Management.

Our Team

Frank Giaoui
Frank Giaoui
Founder and President
Diego Lobo

Diego Lobo

Legal Product Manager

Lampros Lountzis
Lampros Lountzis
Data Scientist

 
Our team

Senior Advisory Board

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Jonathan Askin

Director, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic,

Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab

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John Siegman

Co-Founder

HazardHub

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Olivier Sorba

Former Head of Risk and Chief Scientist 

Lagardere Group 
PhD in Statistics and Mathematics

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Daniel Bauer
Lecturer in Computer Science,

Columbia University

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Alain Maillot

Partner / Founder

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier

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Pete Sisserson

Senior Claims Management Executive

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Donald Ferguson

Adjunct Professor in Computer Science,

Columbia University

Ansys Fellow, Ansys, Inc.

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Nate Beatty

Founder of Ascent Technology Consulting

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Norbert Giaoui

Former General Counsel

Lagardere Group

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Daniel Temam

Former Chief Editor at INSEE,

The French Agency of Statistics and Economic Studies

Senior Advisory Board
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