ODAIA noun

‍o·da·ia |  \ 'oh-day-yeah \

Ancient Greek word that means "that for which a merchant travels".

Learn about the origin and the leadership team behind ODAIA

Founded in 2018 out of the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, ODAIA is led by experienced entrepreneurs, scientists, and industry veterans.

Meet the Team

ODAIAis led by experienced entrepreneurs, scientists,
machine learning engineers, and industry veterans from:

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Our Leadership Team

Philip Poulidis
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Helen Kontozopoulos
Chief Tech Evangelist & Co-Founder
Zak Baharie
Chief Technology Officer
Orchid Jahanshahi
VP Commercial, Life Sciences
Mark Zou
Chief Product Officer
Mehdi Mohyneen
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Sheldon Rodrigues
Head Of Marketing

Academic Founders

Gael Bernard, PhD
Co-Founder
Periklis Andritsos, PhD
Co-Founder
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Helen Kontozopoulos
Chief Evangelist &
Co-Founder

"I love getting up every morning and working with my team on some really cool technology that people are going to use."

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Philip Poulidis
Chief Executive Officer
& Co-Founder

"I love bringing technology to industries where it helps them realize exponential efficiencies."

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Mark Zou
Chief Product Officer

"Anybody who has an engineering background thinks solving critical problems, problems that really help the customer or the end-user is really the bottom line. That is what gets us out of the bed every morning."

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