Jacky Ma

• Initiated the company's AI transformation after identifying an unaddressed organizational need. • Defined strategy and initiatives: to help the organization thrive in the AI age through liberalizing AI experimentation, automating core operations, and enabling AI-driven coding and low-code building. • Pioneered process and organizational experiments for AI-native development • R&D projects: retrieval augmented generation (RAG), vector-based knowledge databases, AI agent frameworks.

• Built the data science team from the ground up and scaled to 15+ members • Oversaw multiple data-focused teams (Data Science, Algorithm Performance, and Data Platform) to ensure cohesive impact. Initiated the AI Transformation Working Group to capitalize on advancements in AI. • Led strategic planning, organizational design, and process improvements • Addressed business and engineering challenges through data science solutions

Initiated discussions with various stake holders to decide the data science roadmap: developed a customer lifetime value model for the company, which serves as the scoring system for customer acquisition. Conducted pricing analytics for better customer segmentation. Developed a deep learning based matching machine. Conducted workshops and meetups to nurture data science culture in the company.

Lead the development of Metisa, a machine learning platform that helps businesses find data-driven insights, with applications for industries ranging from retail, marketing, finance to facility management. Conduct data science analysis and statistical modeling in efficiency and cost optimization, market segmentation and targeted marketing, financial market prediction, demand forecasting. Deliver data science research results with recommended business solutions.

IA Systems is a Fintech startup - Developed business strategies, supervised project execution, actively contribute to product development and successfully launched the flagship trading platform which achieved sales revenue over HKD4M and recurrent subscription fee over HKD400k. - Built automated models and visualizations tools to uncover patterns in financial market and created methodologies to measure performance of trading recommendations.

- Developed an event-driven long-short trading strategy, guided, oversaw and interpreted analysis conducted by team members and conduct experiments to measure efficacy and accuracy of trading algorithms. - Developed visualization tools to monitor market movements and to assist trading decision. - Analyzed securities, fixed income, currencies and commodities market (FICC) to give actionable recommendations.