GraphAware Neo4j Experts

About Michal

Michal Bachman is CEO at GraphAware. He holds an MSc degree in Computing from Imperial College London, where he wrote a distinguished thesis on graph databases. Prior to founding GraphAware, Michal worked in the software industry as a developer, architect, consultant, and trainer for over 10 years. He specialises in the application of graph technologies for intelligence and law enforcement use cases, graph-based security models, and high performance graph data ingest. Michal occasionally publishes technical articles and frequently presents at conferences around the world.

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About Luanne

Luanne Misquitta is the VP of Engineering at GraphAware. She holds a BSc degree in Computer Science from St. Xavier’s College. Luanne is a developer, consultant, and trainer with over 20 years of experience. She has been working with Neo4j daily since 2010, which makes her one of the world's most experienced Neo4j consultants. Currently, she specialises in graph data modeling and query optimisations, with a particular focus on the law enforcement and intelligence domains. At GraphAware, Luanne builds high performing teams and promotes engineering best practices. She is a valued member of the Neo4j community and an active open-source contributor.

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About Christophe

Christophe Willemsen is the CTO at GraphAware. Before joining the team, Christophe worked as a communication systems engineer for the Belgian Navy for almost 15 years and taught courses about maritime distress and emergency communication systems. He is a skilled software engineer when shipping production code, as well as an efficient hacker on tactical assignments. Christophe is one of the main authors of Hume, GraphAware's Graph-Powered Insights Engine, and an active member of the Neo4j community.

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Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware

About Alessandro

Dr. Alessandro Negro is the Chief Scientist at GraphAware. He is the author of Graph-Powered Machine Learning (Manning, 2020) and a thought leader in the space of graph-based AI and ML. He is one of the main authors of Hume, GraphAware's flagship product and a leading Knowledge Graph Platform. He specialises in natural language processing, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and graph-aided search. Before joining the team, Alessandro gained over 10 years of experience in software development and spoke at many prominent conferences such as JavaOne. Alessandro holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Salento. He is based in Southern Italy (lucky him!) but travels to clients around the world.

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About Daniela

Daniela Merglova is a Non-Executive Director at GraphAware. She was Operations Director for the initial three years of GraphAware's operation, having grown the company from zero to £1M revenue and 14 staff. Currently, she oversees the accounting agenda of all GraphAware entities and advises the management team in tax, finance, accounting, operations, and global restructuring. She holds a BSc degree in Business Administration from the State University of New York and has 8 years of experience in accounting and tax from SAP and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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About Peter

Peter Fencak is the Finance Director at GraphAware. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Masaryk University in Brno. He also holds CFA and ACCA certificates. After graduating from university, he joined EY where he spent 9 years working on a wide variety of assurance and advisory engagements. Before joining GraphAware, he also worked as the CFO for a FinTech start-up. At GraphAware, he is responsible for Finance, Operations, as well as strategic business activities.

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Esther Bergmark, Director of Product Management at GraphAware

About Esther

Esther Bergmark is Director of Product at GraphAware. She brings ten years of experience in product management and marketing in fast growing, market leading technology companies. Her approach to product management focuses on creation of value for customers. She holds a double master degree from Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin in Communication, Politics and Sinology. At GraphAware she is in charge of Hume, leading the growth of the product line.

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Ondrej Peterka, Marketing Director at GraphAware

About Ondrej

Ondrej Peterka is Marketing Director at GraphAware. He holds a Master’s degree in International Trade and Commercial Communications from The Prague University of Economics and Business. He started his career as a PR professional, later building and developing a digital communications department. Before joining GraphAware, he managed marketing operations in a MarTech startup. At GraphAware, he is responsible for driving business success through integrated marketing efforts.

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Olof Fredriksson, Sales Director at GraphAware

About Olof

Olof Fredriksson is Sales Director at GraphAware and brings 20 years of sales leadership experience from the enterprise software market. Olof’s previous roles include Global, European, and Nordic sales leadership roles at companies like Hewlett-Packard, SAS Institute, and Tacton. His approach to sales is customer and value driven.

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About Katerina

Katerina Kubalikova (also known as KK) is an Operations Manager at GraphAware. She holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Economics in Prague and has 10 years of experience in project management, operations, sales, marketing, and customer relationship management. She runs the day to day operations of the company.

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About Veronika

Veronika Srncová is Talent Manager at GraphAware. She graduated at the University of Economics in Prague with a Masters degree in HR and Business Administration. Veronika has over 12 years of experience in HR and project management, mainly in the Middle East, where she has lived and worked for the past 10 years. She is now responsible for the smooth and effective talent management at GraphAware.

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About Gabriela

Gabriela Masnicova is a Finance Manager at GraphAware responsible for accounting, reporting, tax and compliance agenda of the company. She holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Economics and Management from the University of Economics in Prague. Gabriela has over 10 years of experience in finance controlling and accounting in a multinational corporation and international environment.

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About Tomas

Tomas Kuba is the Customer Success Manager at GraphAware. He has 20 years of broad experience ranging from software development, solution design, consulting to business management. Tomas quickly understands complex issues, learns new technologies and he knows how to get things done. His broad skill set allows him to shape and communicate top management's strategic goals with all executive delivery teams. At GraphAware, Tomas is responsible for supporting customers in deployment and utilisation of their Hume implementations as well as connecting the right knowledge, experience, and people for customer success.

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About Ovidiu

Ovidiu is a Business & Compliance Consultant with 8 years of experience in in-house legal counselling roles for multinational companies operating in R&D, IT Development, IP Management, and Engineering Technology. He holds a master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Montpellier, France, and he is a graduate of the World Commerce & Contracting association. Ovidiu has gained international experience in corporate governance and business restructuring, commercial contracts negotiation and management, regulatory compliance, and general legal and commercial risks.

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About Jan

Jan Martinek is a Sales Executive at GraphAware. He brings 11+ years of experience in sales, business development, and negotiation in fast-growing companies. Jan’s previous roles include Head of Sales at a Czech FMCG startup and Senior Partnerships Manager in a market-leading travel startup. His approach to sales is to be human and to provide value to the customer.

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About Nina

Nina Matejčić is a Business Development Representative at GraphAware. She graduated at the University of Zagreb with a master's degree in English language and Anthropology - both with a focus on linguistics. She started her career as a translator, and later transitioned into marketing and sales. In recent years she has worked with big brands, as well as small startups in the realm of B2B. At GraphAware she handles creating new business opportunities and advocates for the brand.

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About Alejandro

Alejandro has prior experience as a consultant in several Fintech companies obtaining tangible results such as successful B2B software sales, international company expansion and management of technical integrations into other markets which fostered growth. After living in Canada, he decided to go back to his home country, Spain, where he studied a dual degree in Law and International Relations. Fun fact: Alejandro has lived in a boat for a year sailing to more than 20 different countries.

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About Aldrin

Aldrin Misquitta is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware based in Abu Dhabi. Aldrin has 20+ years of experience in software development with specialisation in front end and middle tier technologies. He has strong focus on processes, automated testing and continuous development. He has spent his career working with services, startups and product companies. He loves challenges and can quickly ramp up on any new technology. Aldrin has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University.

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About Jan

Jan Pesa is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware. He has profound experience with modern web development and frameworks like Angular (since early versions from 2013), Aurelia and Backbone. Jan has over 10 years of experience as a front-end developer and web designer – from small web presentations and single-purpose applications to vast corporate intranet systems. He is passionate about clean UI and maintainable code. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master’s degree in Computer Graphics and Multimedia from Brno University of Technology.

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About Ales

Ales Havlik is a Lead DevOps Engineer at GraphAware. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Masaryk University, Czechia and an MSc. in Software Development from Open University, UK, where he wrote a thesis on Temporal Queries in Graph Database Management Systems. Ales has over 15 years of experience with software development for large organizations as well as startups. He is experienced with back end and front end development, server administration, and TCP/IP networks. Ales is currently based in Prague.

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About Miro

Dr. Miro Marchi is our Graph Specialised Anthropologist. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from University of Verona, where he studied the consumption of graph visualisations by members of communities of practice. Miro's skills and interests lie between social and computer sciences. He combines experience in ethnographic analysis (deep immersion in the field to understand stakeholders practices), in graph data modelling with Neo4j, and in JavaScript data visualisation. Miro facilitates project communication and helps clients to extract actionable insights with knowledge graph solutions. He is passionate about the game-changing effect of network thinking and graph technology on organisations and processes.

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About Vlasta

Dr. Vlasta Kus is a Lead Data Scientist at GraphAware. He is passionate about delivering machine learning solutions into production. Vlasta has a solid background in mathematics and research in physics. He became passionate about combining Machine Learning and property graphs into Knowledge Graphs. Over the years he gained extensive experience with statistical data analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and building Knowledge Graphs in various domains. Currently, Vlasta specializes in natural language processing, knowledge graphs, graph analytics and graph ML.

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About Michal

Michal Trnka is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware. He has over 5 years of experience with software engineering and development of projects ranging from internal tools for corporations through open source frameworks to outsourced development. Michal is passionate about automation of the software development and deployment process and loves to find innovative and creative solutions to problems. He adds experience from academia: he is currently finishing his Ph.D at Czech Technical University and is a Fulbright scholar.

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About Sergio

Sergio De Lorenzis is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware. Sergio is an engineer with 10 years of experience as full stack developer, data analyst and data warehouse designer for industries like banking, healthcare and food & beverage. In the latest years he has worked as a software architect and as software developer, mainly focused on backend systems powered by micro service architectures. He firmly believes avoiding any anti-pattern is the best design pattern that ever existed.

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About Andrea

Andrea Evangelista is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware and has 10 years of experience as a full stack engineer across all spheres of application development: analysis, design, coding and testing using both proven and cutting edge technologies. A resolute, versatile, computer science and programming enthusiast with an intensely inquisitive mind describe him best. He is also passionate about writing in multiple programming languages. Previously, he has built secure, intensively tested and reliable architectures supporting a very high volume of users. Andrea holds a Computer Science degree and is a co-author of a scientific publication on Pattern Recognition Letters for a low-cost and calibration-free gaze estimator for soft biometrics.

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About Kenneth

Kenneth is a Project Lead for Ecosystem R&D at GraphAware. He has over 16 years of experience as a software developer and tech lead, working in industries from finance, telecoms to health. Kenneth holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering and is very passionate about clean code and domain-driven design. He followed CI/CD principles for over 10 years and was an early adopter of microservice architectures. Kenneth has multiple years of experience in events-driven and actor-based system design plus implementation.

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About Antonin

Antonin Smid is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware with a focus on front-end technologies. He has over six years of UI development experience ranging from web design to motion graphics and interactions in VR. He is passionate about readable code and effective, minimalist UI. Antonin holds a Master’s degree in software engineering from Baylor University, Texas, and is currently based in Prague.

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About Fabio

Fabio is a Data Engineer at GraphAware. As a Software Engineer he devoted most of his 10+ year career in the research field, both scientific and industrial. Ranging from neuroscience to operational oceanography through natural language processing, Fabio helped scientists to push their research forward, designing support infrastructures that are ready to be industrialized. As a bridge between science and industry, he assists with moving rapidly from scientific reasoning to product value.

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About Giuseppe

Giuseppe is Senior Data Scientist at GraphAware. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, where he explored Graph Representation Learning techniques to support the automatic building of Knowledge Graphs. In 10+ years he gained multidisciplinary experience in different areas, including research, software development, and communication both in academia and industry. He is passionate about Semantic Web, Machine Learning, and all the cutting-edge technologies to incorporate human knowledge into intelligent systems.

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About Federica

Federica is a Junior Data Scientist at GraphAware. She holds a master's degree in Mathematics from University of Salento, where she wrote a thesis on data streaming. She is passionate about Machine Learning and Deep Learning, particularly natural language processing, and enjoys data modeling and data querying. With a creative approach, she has already gained experience in these fields with small-scale projects.

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About Zsolt

Zsolt is aProject Lead at GraphAware. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and has 10+ years of backend development and systems integration experience. He has a deep understanding of infrastructure provisioning, automations, migrations, governance and cloud technologies – including their product management, architecture and hands-on coding perspectives. He has extensive experience coding in Java. He enjoys communicating with clients, establishing trust and improving customer success.

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About Jiri

Jiri Palas is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware. He is a front-end developer at GraphAware with full-stack experience. He has over 6 years of experience in modern web development ranging from small internal products to large-scale projects involving micro-frontend architecture. Jiri is passionate about UI performance, maintainable code, test automation. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Czech Technical University in Prague. When Jiri is not coding, he climbs or rides a bike in the mountains.

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About Andrés

Andrés is a Technical Lead on the Hume team. He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Software Engineering, getting honors in his thesis based on Reverse Image Search with Machine Learning. He has successfully led software development products for various startups in India, Spain, Hong Kong and the U.K. He also has wide exposure to cybersecurity and threat analytics while working for companies like Micro Focus and Cisco. Andrés is passionate about functional programming and believes that cultivating a culture of growth mindset and collaboration is key to achieving success.

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About Daniel

Daniel Moraru is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and has been working as a software engineer in various roles from developer to architect. As a long time user of Java, he developed a strong interest in performance engineering and relishes the challenges it brings. Apart from this, he brings 20+ years of experience in building applications with Spring Boot, Node.js and React.

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About Grzegorz

Grzegorz is a Senior Software Engineer. He holds an MSc. in Computer Science from Silesian Technical University in Gliwice. He has 20 years of experience working as engineer, team lead and product owner in domains like automotive, electronics, IoT, GIS, medical and VOD. Every day, he tries to find the holy grail of optimal backend systems in terms of performance, functionality and simplicity, and thus he’s always on the look out for different DB engines, frameworks and cloud solutions. Off work, he plays the keyboard and ukulele and enjoys hiking and cycling.

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About Galen

Galen Rutledge is a Technical Support Engineer at GraphAware, based in Australia. He holds a B.Sc in Physics and BIT in Information Management, both from Queensland University of Technology. Galen brings 11+ years of broad experience conducting forensic analysis of complex systems, and guiding users and technical teams resolving critical issues. He is passionate about creating positive customer experiences, and building information resources to accelerate high-quality customer services.

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About Hamza

Hamza is a Software Engineer with 6 years of experience and a member of the Hume engineering team. He has developed a variety of applications for industries like HR, parking management and telecom and has experience working in both product and service-based companies. Hamza is adept in technologies like Java, Angular, AWS, etc. He enjoys communicating with clients and engaging with teams.

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About Adrian

Adrian is a Software Engineer at GraphAware and has over 4 years of experience as a full-stack developer. He holds an MSc. in Computer Science from Warsaw Military University of Technology. Adrian is passionate about programming, solving problems and delivering value. He is experienced with Domain-Driven Design and Test Driven Development. In his spare time he likes to learn new things and work on new DIY electronic projects.

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About Vasileios

Vasileios is a Software Engineer at GraphAware, based in Greece. He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has over 5 years of experience as a software engineer. He’s passionate about OOP, clean coding and Java design patterns. He is experienced with developing search-driven applications and full-stack development. When not coding, he loves playing and writing music and watching movies.

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About Hasan

Hasan Ayan is a Software Engineer at GraphAware. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and his passion for technology drove him into a career in Software Engineering. After working for 5 years in the construction industry developing various software solutions to help digital transformation, he started working on various 3D model and geographic data visualization projects. He enjoys being challenged by complex problems and is passionate about creating efficient solutions for them. When Hasan is not working, he does sports, rides his motorbike or makes electronic music.

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About Pablo

Pablo Pareja is a Senior Software Engineer with a background in research, graphs, algorithm design, cloud computing, project management, and a focus on front-end and data visualisation during recent years. With over 15 years of experience, Pablo pioneered the use of graph databases in biotech with Bio4j, an open source graph database for biological Big Data. More recently he managed and participated as a tech lead in big projects around supply chain and environmental data mapping as well as species and conservation data visualisation among other topics. Passionate about complex problem solving and taking on new challenges, he likes to think beyond code and believes in the positive impact that tech can make in many aspects of society. When not coding he dedicates himself to music, be it composing jazz tunes, singing, or playing the piano.

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About Jiri

Jiri is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware. Formerly a C++ developer, he worked on secure communication applications for various platforms. For the last 7 years however, he specialised in web application development. He focuses mainly on UI design and the application of 3D graphics for the web. Jiri is passionate about user-friendly and beautiful UIs as well as interactive visualisations. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Graphics from Czech Technical University in Prague.

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About Filip

Filip Staniul is a Senior Software Engineer at GraphAware, focused on front-end technologies. He is passionate about domain modelling, functional programming, clean code and test driven development. He has experience in team leading and the whole life cycle of project development from gathering requirements through development into a successful release and later maintenance. To broaden his knowledge, he is studying Computer Science at the University in Wrocław. In his spare time, he trains for powerlifting.

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About Tamas

Tamás Csontos is a Software Engineer at GraphAware. He has over 3 years of experience as a full-stack developer but now focuses mostly on front-end technologies. He holds a B.Sc in Business IT from the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is passionate about building engaging UI experiences and writing clean and well tested code. In his free time he loves playing games of all sorts, but the best is sitting down with friends for a board game.

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About Petr

Petr Matuska is a Lead Sales Engineer at GraphAware. He holds an MSc degree in Chemical Engineering and Mathematical Modelling but he found his passion in IT. He gained over 5 years experience in IT across a wide pallet of roles from technical to business facing ones. Before joining his current position at GraphAware, Petr worked for leaders in Agri and Pharma industry and as well a Biotech startup, levering data science with a focus on NLP and connected data. At GraphAware Petr is responsible for spearheading the technical part of a sales and solution delivery.

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About Dimitrios

Dimitrios is a UX Designer at GraphAware. He has a varied design experience in consultancies and startups in Athens, London and Hangzhou and likes to create meaningful, intuitive, and delightful digital products. Dimitri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design & Technology from Brunel University, London, and is currently based in Ireland.

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About Danica

Danica is a Technical Writer at GraphAware. She holds a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham. Danica has several years of experience in writing documentation and establishing technical writing processes as a team lead. At GraphAware, her challenge is to create comprehensive documentation for Hume and improve technical writing procedures.

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About Zuzana

Zuzana Dancova is a Junior Accountant at GraphAware. She graduated from the Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia with a Master’s degree in Economics and Management of Natural Resources. Zuzana has experience in accounting and finance. In her free time, she likes to learn the Italian language.

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About Irena

Irena Sevcikova joined GraphAware as Operations Support. After completing a Hotel Management Diploma in the Czech Republic she worked mainly in the hotel and airline industry. She has lived in the Middle East since 2002 and worked as a Marketing Executive for a major airline.

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About Claudia

Claudia Boellis joined GraphAware as Operations Support in Italy. After her studies, she worked in the export-import business and the tourist industry. During her professional career, she gained experience in office management and accounting.

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About Alexandra

Alexandra Klacanova is a marketing and sales specialist in GraphAware. She recently graduated from Umeå University in Sweden with a master’s degree in Marketing. Through her studies, Alexandra grew her B2C marketing experience and since joining GraphAware she has broadened her horizons within the field of B2B marketing. Her primary focus is driving business through marketing efforts.

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About Roland

Roland Martin is a Sales and Marketing Operations Specialist at GraphAware. He has ten years of experience in managing processes and tech environments for marketing and sales operations. His main domains are CRM, Marketing automation tools and data intelligence. Roland’s main goal is to build and maintain a smoothly running engine which brings predictability and transparency into marketing & sales activities and makes them truly data driven.

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About Joseph

Joseph Soukup is taking an internship position at GraphAware to deepen his hands-on development expertise. He's just finished high school where he specialized in IT and he's on the way to start his university studies at a software development college in Prague. Joseph has already gained some experience in managing small-scale projects, providing support for the products he built and took care of creating the required infrastructure for them.

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Michal Bachman

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Luanne Misquitta

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Christophe Willemsen

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Alessandro Negro

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Daniela Merglova

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Peter Fencak

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Esther Bergmark

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Ondrej Peterka

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Olof Fredriksson

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Katerina Kubalikova

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Veronika Srncova

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Gabriela Masnicova

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Tomas Kuba

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Ovidiu Petrenciu

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Jan Martinek

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Nina Matejcic

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Alejandro Rios

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Aldrin Misquitta

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Jan Pesa

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Ales Havlik

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Miro Marchi

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Vlasta Kus

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Michal Trnka

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Sergio De Lorenzis

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Andrea Evangelista

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Kenneth O’Brien

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Antonin Smid

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Fabio Montagna

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Giuseppe Futia

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Federica Ventruto

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Zsolt Katona

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Jiri Palas

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Andrés Diaz Santos

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Daniel Moraru

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Grzegorz Aniol

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Galen Rutledge

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Hamza Beini

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Adrian Kolodziejski

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Vasileios Bakosis

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Hasan Ayan

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