BlueCircle (formerly Trellis)
Enterprise SoftwareOverview: BlueCircle (formerly Trellis)
Although supply chains have become increasingly digitized, inefficiencies still exist in the food and beverage supply chain. BlueCircle offers an end-to-end, AI-powered risk intelligence platform for the global food value chain, focused on the wine, juice and processed food sectors.
The platform dynamically predicts how climate and weather will affect harvest yield, quality, timing and unit cost. Customers can leverage predictions to streamline supply-chain operations.
The platform’s predictive AI and cognitive learning predicts supply and demand behavior, enabling users to resolve inefficiencies, and deliver opportunities to optimize food production, productivity and profitability. The result is an end-to-end, AI-powered, risk intelligence platform for the global food and beverage value chain that allows users to optimize financial risk and opportunities for growth.
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BlueCircle (formerly Trellis) Management Team
Avi Koren
CEO
Avi Koren is a seasoned CEO with over 20 years of experience at international corporations. He has worked at large technology companies (Orbotech, Siemens) and the Food & Beverage industry (Prodalim), gaining a wealth of knowledge in management, operations, marketing, sales, and business development. He specializes in GTM strategies for market penetration and growth management.
LinkedIn profileIshai Oren, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
Ishai is a co-founder of BlueCircle and chief data scientist. Formerly co-founder and chief scientist at Yadata, acquired by Microsoft, Ishai has over 25 years of experience in ML and statistical modelling. He served as an advisor to the Israeli Defense Forces in cryptography and is a recipient of the Israel National Security Award. He has PhD in mathematics from Stanford University.
Ilai Englard
Co-Founder and CEO
Prior to BlueCircle, Ilai was a product manager at Microsoft for its search platform. Ilai was the co-founder of Support Machines and was its chief product officer. Ilai has extensive experience in AI and big data, and R&D, and served as an officer in the unit 8200 in the Israeli Defense Forces’ intelligence branch.
LinkedIn profileCalanit Bar-Am, PhD
Chief Operating Officer
Calanit Bar-Am has over 20 years of experience in international marketing, business development and finance in the water, industrial, and high-tech sectors. Her professional achievements including mergers and acquisitions, establishment of joint ventures, and collaboration agreements with foreign partners as well as establishment of operations in new markets. She also has strong track record in fund raising from governmental sources, venture capital, and private investors. Calanit has a PhD in philosophy and economic geography from the University of California, Davis.
Elad Fiul
VP R&D
Experienced Software manager with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in C++, Realtime, Embedded Software, Communication Protocols, Quant models, machine learning techniques and strategies in addition to infrastructures for automatic trading machines. Excellent self-learner, enjoys reading technical articles and learning new technologies. Believes in writing clean, robust and readable code.
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