boam.ai

Meet the people
behind our technology

To reimagine sales intelligence for the restaurant industry, we brought together some of the brightest minds and most seasoned executives at the intersection of machine learning, data aggregation, and restaurant expertise.

Executives

Data & AI leadership

Our leadership team, built around deep expertise in data science & AI, drives boam.ai forward with a deep passion for and expertise in the restaurant industry and AI.

Daniel Petz

  • CEO & Co-founder
  • Fmr. Groupon Strategy, Stanford MBA
  • Raised in a family of restaurateurs

Stuart Murless

  • Co-founder
  • Fmr. corporate financier
  • Owned & managed several restaurants

Sandor Murakozi

  • Head of Engineering
  • Fmr. early Cloudera employee
  • Big data & backend expert

Gabor Takacs

  • Staff Machine Learning Engineer
  • Fmr. Principal Data Scientist at Oracle
  • AI & Machine learning expert

Kerry Farrelly

  • Sr. Business Operation Manager
  • Professionally-trained chef
  • Food & restaurant tech expert
Advisors

World-class experts

Industry pioneers, seasoned sales or CRM executives, and world-renowned data scientists guiding boam.ai.

Mike Dodson

  • Advisor
  • Fmr. SVP of Sales at OpenTable,
    Resy board member
  • Sales & partnerships

Prof. Ramesh Johari

  • Advisor
  • Professor of MSE, EE, CS at Stanford
  • Machine learning & data-driven decision-making

Keyvan Rahmatian

  • Advisor
  • Product exec at Homebase, Fmr. OpenTable, TripAdvisor
  • Product in restaurant tech

Mattia Ferrini

  • Advisor
  • Director of AI & Mathematical Modelling at KPMG
  • Fmr. Head of a quantitative hedge fund

Prof. Andrzej Skrzypacz

  • Advisor
  • Professor of Economics at Stanford
  • Economic dynamics and marketplaces

Prof. Gabriel Weintraub

  • Advisor
  • Professor of Operations, Info & Technology at Stanford University
  • Data science & analytics