About Us

Ingo Mierswa is an industry-veteran data scientist since starting to develop RapidMiner at the Artificial Intelligence Division of the TU Dortmund University in Germany. Mierswa, the scientist, has authored numerous award-winning publications about predictive analytics and big data. Mierswa, the entrepreneur, is the founder of RapidMiner. Under his leadership RapidMiner has grown up to 300% per year over the first seven years. In 2012, he spearheaded the go-international strategy with the opening of offices in the US as well as the UK and Hungary. After two rounds of fundraising, the acquisition of Radoop, and supporting the positioning of RapidMiner with leading analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester, Ingo takes a lot of pride in bringing the world’s best team to RapidMiner.

Little known factoids:

If Ingo didn’t work for RapidMiner he would live on a sailing boat and be a photographer.

Ingo brought a horse when he moved to the United States in 2014.

Ingo and his wife Nadja traveled more than 20,000 miles through 20 countries – on their bicycles.

Lars is a strategic and innovative product leader with 20 years of product and operational experience in enterprise software and analytics/business intelligence markets. Prior to RapidMiner, he was with TIBCO Software, Inc.; as VP of Product Strategy Lars led product management for TIBCO’s Spotfire and Jaspersoft analytics product lines, customer support and cloud operations for the company’s analytics SaaS and Private Cloud offerings. Early in his career, he held product management and application engineering roles at Parametric Technology Corporation.

Lars holds an MS in Applied Mechanics and a BA in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Little known factoids:

Lars is a proud owner of a 16’ fishing boat named “Bulla” – which means cinnamon bun in Swedish. Lars doesn’t catch many fish.

Lars is on his third citizenship: first German, then Swedish and now “Amerrrikaan.”

Lars rides his 7-speed bicycle to work every day rain, sleet or snow. Lars went missing in the blizzards of 2015 but was re-discovered in the Spring.

O’Toole has developed a specialty in leading finance at high growth tech startups. Prior to joining RapidMiner, he served as CFO of Yotta, Dyn, and Rapid7. Earlier in his career, O’Toole was on the senior leadership team at Bladelogic, leading the company through its 2007 initial public offering.

Jeff has a solid track record in executive field leadership in enterprise software including global roles at DataSynapse and later TIBCO.  Most recently he was VP Sales at Qlik.  Jeff partners with innovators in ecosystem and the enterprise to drive business transformation and economic impact with the state of the art.

Little known factoids:

Jeff loves to ride his mountain bike and skis – sometimes in the same place but never at the same time.

He also enjoys playing his guitar – not well but that hasn’t stopped him.

Before joining RapidMiner, Randy was a senior director for Client Technical Services for various product groups at TIBCO Software with a focus on distributed computing environments and application virtualization and automation. 

Randy began his career as a software engineer designing, coding, and managing scientific applications and data processing platforms in the Hydrographic Survey space at C&C Technologies, Inc. where he helped develop the inertial navigation system for unmanned autonomous submarines in conjunction with the U.S. Naval Research Lab. After coding robo-subs, he led software development teams at Capital One’s GO Systems (Growth Opportunity) for several of their incubator businesses as they leveraged their information-based success in credit card marketing in new markets. He then led development efforts for next generation infrastructure provisioning in the telecommunications space at MCI Worldcom. After Worldcom, Randy designed a distributed high-computation grid software system for the Aerospace Corporation capable of leveraging idle computing resources of hundreds of desktop PCs and servers for calculating orbital positions, thermal simulations, and power and battery capacity management for thousands of satellites orbiting the earth. He has also worked as a consultant to several dot-com companies during the dot-com boom with a focus on scalable web architectures. 

Randy holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana – Lafayette.

Little known factoids:

Randy has a freshman and senior in high school who can not beat him in golf, but this is the way of things in the LeBlanc family as he has also never beaten his own father who carries a single digit handicap. 

Eric has gathered more than 20 years of experience developing software products in 3 startups and one global company. Notably, for more than 10 years, he led the development team of the Decision Management platform named IBM ODM (also known as ILOG JRules). He has become a master in hiring, leading, motivating, coaching, developing, and evaluating engineering staff. In addition, he was an early adopter of agile methodologies and design thinking applied to user interfaces.

Eric holds an Engineering Degree from ESIEE Paris in Artificial Intelligence, an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Paris-Sud University and an MS in Cognitive Ergonomics and Work Psychology from Paris Diderot University.

Little known factoids:

Eric is the proud father of two wonderful children, Pablo and Camille, with whom he likes to play games and travel to the countryside to their circus trailer.

He is also a fan of space conquest and supports all efforts to explore strange new worlds and to boldly go where no one has gone before…

Prior to RapidMiner, Fred was the Chief Technology Officer at Infomatix, an agile analytics leader. Previously, he served as the Global Sales Director, Execution for TIBCO’s Spotfire group and prior to that, CTO & SVP of Global Services – EMEA of DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO). Fred’s 25-year career in technology also includes management positions at Goldman Sachs International, Stratus Computer and other global technology organizations.

Fred holds a First Class Bsc (Honors) degree in Physics with Astrophysics and post graduate research in theoretical physics from the University of Leeds in the UK.

Little known factoids:

When Fred grows up, he wants to be an astronaut.

Fred loves dogs, which is why he has two pet rabbits.

Coffee is the answer to most of his problems.