Leadership

We are a small team that is determined to bring novel technology and useful products to the world. Headquartered in New York City, with decades of experience in software development, technology, financial services and recruitment, we have been immersed in research,  development, and implementation of robust unstructured text data mining solutions.

Our products are built upon our proprietary Domain-Specific Language Processing (DSLP), Weighted Topic Scoring (WTS), and Tailored Topics Taxonomies (TTT) methodologies, which work as highly precise alternative or adjunct to Natural Language Processing. We have been awarded two U.S. Patents in “Profile Matching of Unstructured Data.”

Janet Dwyer, CEO/Cofounder

Janet is the CEO/Cofounder of DataScava, TalentBrowser, and Integretech. She has 20 years of combined experience in software product development, I.T. recruitment for front-to-back-office trading systems, and account management for clients in JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Bank of America, HSBC, Citibank, Jefferies, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Liquidnet, and others. Prior to her current roles, she was a Partner in a New York City startup financial technical staffing firm and District Manager in a boutique I.T. consulting firm specializing in derivatives and capital markets I.T. staffing for investment banks and the Fortune 1000.

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John Harney, CTO/Cofounder

 

John is the CTO/Cofounder of DataScava, TalentBrowser, and Integretech. He is the architect of our software solutions, with deep expertise in Data Mining, Business Intelligence tools, Visual Studio, SQL Server, cloud computing, and full life cycle software development, including 20+ years of experience in software architecture, project management, and development for the financial services industry. His career began in Ireland, where he created financial decision support software for Fixed Income/FX/short-term cash markets, providing software to 19 of 23 banks in Dublin before emigrating to the U.S. to work with companies like Eurobrokers, Citi, Barclays, and  Prebon Yamane.

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Scott Spangler, Senior Data Scientist, Principal Consultant

Scott is a named IBM Distinguished Engineer, former IBM Watson Health Researcher, Chief Data Scientist, and the author of the book “Mining the Talk: Unlocking the Business Value in Unstructured Information.”  He has over twenty years of experience designing and building solutions for unstructured data, and over ten years focusing specifically life sciences and drug discovery. Scott is skilled at leading small teams to apply advanced machine learning and cognitive computing techniques to solve discovery problems involving heterogeneous data sets. He excels at communicating effectively with principal investigators in life sciences, executive stakeholders, software engineers and end users. Areas of specialty include Unstructured Text Analytics for Scientific Discovery, Data Analysis, Statistics, Design of Experiments, Java Application Development, Intellectual Property Analysis, and Corporate Brand Reputation Analysis.

Al Mellina, Strategic Advisor and Board Member

Al is the former CEO/Managing Partner at Gartland & Mellina Group (GMG), a Management Consulting company that served the Financial Services industry with locations in New York City, London, and Toronto. Prior to GMG, Al was a Partner in BearingPoint and KPMG for over 11 years. GMG was acquired in 2019 by Sia Partners, a next-generation management consulting firm that offers a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to clients. Their practices include Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Media, Energy, Resources, Utilities, Transportation and Logistics, Industry and Retail, Government, and Technology.  He earned his BS in Physics and MBA in Marketing from Iona College.