Advisory Team
Our board of advisors bring a wealth of knowledge in multiple sectors, technology, society and the global economy
Prof. Yi-Zhe Song
Advisor
Yi-Zhe Song is a Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, at the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), one of the UK's oldest and largest research centres on Artificial Intelligence. He leads the SketchX Lab within CVSSP. His vision for SketchX is understanding how seeing can be explained by drawing. In other words, how better understanding of human sketch data can be translated to insights of how human visual systems operate, and in turn how such insights can benefit computer vision and cognitive science at large.
CJ Wimley
Advisor
C.J. Wimley has been an operator, an executive and an investor in the Technology industry for over 35 years. He currently focuses on investing in disruptive technologies, and he has spent the last 5 years working with the GAEA team. Mr. Wimley recently retired from Kaseya where he was President & Chief Customer Officer. Prior to Kaseya, Mr. Wimley was CEO at TeamDynamix and spent 10+ years at SunGard, who had acquired the start-up technology company where Mr. Wimley was one of the partners.
Lee Howell OBE
Advisor
Co-founder of Acurisk, a specialist commercial insurance brokerage and Appointed Representative for a Lloyds Broker. Lee serverd as Chief Executive of an £80m risk critical organisation, employing over 2000 staff for more than a decade. Whilst seconded to multiple Government Departments, including the Home Office, Lee provided advice directly to several Government Ministers on risk and resilience matters.
He is an NED on the Board of a major private healthcare company, overseeing PRA/FCA-regulated operations (including insurance activities) and is the Chairman of its charitable arm. Lee is the Co-Chair of the Institute of Risk Management’s ‘Non Executive Director/Chief Risk Officer Special Interest Group’ and a Fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Dr. Michael Huffman
Advisor
Dr. Michael Huffman is an investor and advisor with expertise in capital markets, venture capital, and higher education. He advises and is an investor in London-based firm: FourthRev, an EdTech company. In Richmond, Virginia, he is an investor and board member of Kinetic Asset Holdings, LLC, and serves as an advisor for myFootpath, LLC, in Chicago, Illinois. Previously, Dr. Huffman was on the board of directors for the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and the Virginia Commonwealth University Alumni Association.
By integrating GAEA AI’s geotemporal intelligence into our risk services, we’re able to highlight unseen exposures, drive smarter coverage decisions, and ultimately deliver better commercial outcomes for everyone involved.
Partnering with GAEA AI has enabled us to explore the potential to create efficient in healthcare and medical research by unlocking our data and creating an innovation capable AI environment