Meet the people
behind our technology
To reimagine data intelligence for the restaurant industry, we brought some of the brightest minds together at the intersection of machine learning, data aggregation, and restaurant expertise.
Executives
Data leadership
These are our leaders, driving boam.ai forward day-to-day 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
And then there is our external team, the experts guiding boam.ai. They’re all industry pioneers, seasoned restaurant-tech executives and world-renowned data scientists.
Prof. Ramesh Johari
- Advisor
- Professor of MSE, EE, CS at Stanford
- Machine learning & data-driven decision-making
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
Mike Dodson
- Advisor
- Fmr. SVP of Sales at OpenTable,
Resy board member - Sales & partnerships
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