Michael Amori is the CEO and co-founder of Virtualitics. Michael is a data scientist and entrepreneur with a background in finance and physics. He co-authored many of the patents underpinning the Virtualitics AI platform. He believes that AI applied to data analytics can help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges.

Before co-founding Virtualitics, he was a managing director at Deutsche Bank, where he started and headed a data-driven trading desk in London, New York and India focused on the insurance and pensions markets. He managed a large group of data scientists, designed the group’s predictive modeling and risk management systems and started and was technical advisor to the bank’s first insurance-linked fund. He was previously an interest rates derivatives trader at various large banks and graduated from the Goldman Sachs analyst program.

Michael was also a researcher in nanotechnology at Caltech, where he contributed to two papers and obtained one patent. The patent is related to a quantitative method for the determination of target molecules in the context of nanotechnology devices applied to medical research.