Lokad develops big data solutions for commerce. By allowing retail, eCommerce and wholesale to make smarter, faster decision we turn data into profits. Solutions include demand forecasting, inventory optimization, phantom inventory detection, out-of-shelf monitoring, merchandising optimization... We additionally provide big data infrastructure and consulting services.

Lokad is the winner of the Windows Azure Partner of The Year 2010 Award and was named as one of Europe’s 100 hottest startups by Wired Magazine (Sept. 2012).

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Management Team

Founder: Joannès Vermorel (check also the longer bio) Passionate about cloud computing and statistical learning, Joannès Vermorel also teaches a software engineering course at the Ecole normale supérieure of Paris. Past experience: Math.NET, NGrid





Technology Leader: Rinat Abdullin A graduate from the Bashkir State University (Russia), Rinat Abdullin focuses on software design, distributed and scalable systems. He writes on these topics, is a co-host in Being The Worst podcast on software craftsmanship and in Distributed Podcast.




Chief Data Scientist: Matthieu Durut Mathematician, working on the analytics algorithms of Lokad. A graduate from the ENSAE (top school of statistics in France), he is also Agrégé de Mathématiques.






Senior Project Leader: Simon Schalit Graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique and Cambridge University. Previously Senior with a focus on process analysis at the Financial Advisory Department at Mazars.






CFO: Estelle Vermorel Graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm). Estelle handles the finances and human resources at Lokad.

Key Shareholders

François Bourdoncle, Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Exalead (acquired by Dassault System for 135M€ in 2010). His passion is to understand how Internet technologies can be used to make next-generation business apps, faster, less expensive and more intuitive. Ph. D., X-Mines.




Didier Tranchier, founder and CEO at Adelit , founder and President at IT @ngels. Coach and innovation specialist, investor in several start-up companies. MBA Columbia, Ph. D. Inria, X-Telecom.






Emmanuel de Maistre Alumni of the Ecole normale supérieure, also a graduate from the Master HEC-Entrepreneurs. Co-founder and former CEO at ManRos Therapeutics. Started his career at Aelios Finance.






The skin of Lokad.com is a Sergey Pozhilov design.

Directeur de la publication: Joannès Vermorel
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