Neurensic Confirms Cliff Click as CTO, Will Open Innovation Lab

- By Anthony Malakian
- @a_malakian
- 07 Apr 2016

He will be responsible for the ongoing development of the company's compliance and operational risk products, Core and OPS, as well as the company's distributed real-time data aggregation and artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks, according to a release. He will also open Neurensic's Silicon Valley office, which will focus on leveraging open-source technology.

Click was previously the CTO and co-founder of H2O.ai, which used AI solutions for risk and fraud analysis, insurance analytics, healthcare solutions, advertising, predictive modeling and customer intelligence.

Innovation Lab

The company is also opening an Innovation Lab, with the focus of applying its big data aggregation and AI capabilities to help move forward nascent technologies, such as blockchain.

"Bringing a business intelligence layer to distributed ledger solutions is critical to forming a sustainable path toward adopting these technologies in the longrun," said Zachery Watts, who will head the Lab, in a statement.

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