
Ravin AI
Overview: Ravin AI
Co Investors
Ravin AI Management Team
Eliron Ekstein
CEO
MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor degree in Economics and International Affairs from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eliron is an experienced entrepreneur and executive, having been one of the co-founders of Shell’s Digital Venturing unit in London. He has acted as CEO and Chief Commercial Officers in some of the ventures incubated by Shell, most recently at FarePilot.com–a data analytics tool assisting professional taxi drivers forecast passenger demand around them. Prior to this, Eliron was a strategy consultant (Shell, BCG) and economist(ICL Group, a multinational in agricultural and industrial chemicals).
Dr. Roman Sandler
Co-founder and CTO
PhD in Computer Science (Technion, Israel) with expertise in computer vision and machine learning. Roman is a pioneer in vehicle recognition having developed one of the world’s first highway camera systems in the 1990s. His military service, post academic computer science studies, included the chief architect role in a flagship project overseeing entire engineering teams the Israeli Intelligence’s cloud infrastructure. After completing his post-doc work in data mining at Yahoo!, he has been developing visual recognition solutions for multiple clients across industries such as retail and consumer goods, most recently for Shutterfly.com–a global personalized print product specialist, building an in-house facial recognition solution (similar to Picasa).
Dr. Alexander Kenis
Chief Scientific Officer
PhD in Physics (Technion, Israel). Dr. Kenis is a leading expert in deep learning and image processing, and was one of the co-founders of the image recognition startup Photoccino, sold to Shutterfly in 2012. Since the acquisition, Dr. Kenis led the Israeli R&D team in this space for Shutterfly, and has recruited Roman Sandler as his first employee. The two have been working together ever since. In his capacity as CSO, Dr. Kenis is leading the algorithmic subject matter within Ravin, training the AI to emulate the work of a professional vehicle inspector.