Team
Stefan Kupferberg
(Managing Director & Co-Founder) leads the Yukka team, drawing on his professional experience in the ICT, Finance and Green Energy sectors. Having spent time working and studying abroad, in the USA, the UK, and Switzerland, Stefan has succeeded in building partnerships and contacts. Stefan is a graduate of the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Masters in Business Administration.
Kai Sippel
(Technical Director & Co-Founder) holds a degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Potsdam. While studying he spent one and a half years working part-time for ID Berlin, specializing in rule-based natural language processing. In the Yukka development team he is responsible for Sentiment Analysis.
Nikolaus Werner
(Development Director & Co-Founder) holds a degree in Computational Linguistics from University of Potsdam. He specialized in the area of text technology and automatic consistency assurance working two years at the acrolinx company in Berlin. His subject is the statistical preparation and automatic analysis of text data.
Kristoffer J. Lassen
(Director International Marketing & Sales)
Kristoffer J. Lassen has a Master from Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property Law in Concord, New Hampshire and attended Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs in Philadelphia. He worked on a variety of intellectual property assignments in the U.S. from 1999 to 2006 and went on to found Imooty, a multi-language brand monitoring tool, upon his return to Europe in 2007.
Blaise Bourgeois
(Director Design & Infrastructure)
Blaise is in charge of interface design and infrastructure and has a Masters of Art and New Media from the University of Paris 8 in collaboration with the Humboldt University in Berlin. Prior to founding Imooty with Kristoffer, Blaise had 6 years experience as a corporate designer and technical infrastructure architect for among others Marc Bloch Center, Art49.com, 3Point Concept Agency and the Institute of Contemporary History in Paris.
Johannes Neubarth
(Head of Software Development)
Johannes Neubarth holds a degree in Computational Linguistics from University of Potsdam. During his studies he finished several internships, e.g. for Hasso-Plattner-Institut and Palo Alto Research Center. Current fields of work include infrastructure extension for software development (unit testing, design patterns, coding conventions) and the modeling of trading signals.
Contact
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