CustomerMatrix Expands Its Global Team

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - March 30, 2016) - CustomerMatrix, a leading innovator in cognitive computing, today announced the recent addition of four key executive hires to meet growing client demand for innovation from global financial services and insurance companies.

The key executives joining CustomerMatrix are:

• Dave Den Bleyker, General Manager Americas
• Christophe Favart, VP Platform Engineering
• Pierre Goyeneix, General Manager EMEA
• Tim Klaver, General Manager APAC

"IDC's Dave Schubmehl estimates the global cognitive computing market at $40 billion U.S. With digital transformation driving the strategic agenda at nearly all global banks and insurers, cognitive computing will be a key business driver," said Guy Mounier, Co-Founder and CEO, CustomerMatrix. "We are witnessing this reality in our own growth. We are growing more than 200 percent per year and have already signed six of the world's top 10 banks and insurers. The addition of experienced technology executives like Dave Den Bleyker, Pierre Goyeneix and Tim Klaver is crucial to our continued growth. They will lead the efforts in their regions to deliver cognitive computing to our customers' innovation and digital transformation programs," Mounier added.

Gilles André, Co-Founder and CTO, CustomerMatrix, said, "We have combined true machine learning, semantic and natural language processing to create knowledge engineering. This process involves getting the data right first, which results in highly predictive recommendations and superior business outcomes that drive new revenue. Christophe Favart is the kind of technology leader who can inspire highly skilled engineers and data scientists, ensuring that our customers continue to have the latest and highest value machine learning techniques to achieve their desired business outcomes. I know that our comprehensive libraries of algorithms and machine learning techniques will continue to grow under Christophe's leadership."

Over the coming months, those interested can meet and hear company executives speak at Startupbootcamp InsurTech Demo Day on April 14 in London, as well as at Next Bank Silicon Valley on May 12 in San Jose, CA.

About CustomerMatrix

The CustomerMatrix Cognitive Computing platform helps companies capture hidden revenue opportunities in real-time, by recommending specific actions for customer-facing employees and placing its recommendations in their existing workflows, ranked by impact value.

CustomerMatrix is headquartered in New York City with its R&D center in Paris, France and operations in Asia centered in Hong Kong. It has a growing list of Global 2000 customers including global banks such as HSBC, DBS, and BNP Paribas, and insurers such as AXA, Allianz, as well as some of the world's most distinguished business brands such as Schneider Electric and Wolters Kluwer. 

CustomerMatrix is a founding member of the Cognitive Computing Consortium with IBM-Watson.

For more information, please visit: www.customermatrix.com.

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