Hatem Sellami

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Cognira

   Mar 2015 — Present

   Cognira helps retailers, wholesalers, and brands with complex forecasting and promotional challenges.We recognize that the old ways of forecasting and promotion planning are no longer sufficient to understand the promotional impact on consumer behavior and the customer\'s path to purchase.To address this we leverage decades of retail business expertise to help our customers with deep data science modeling techniques.Our Cognitive analytic approach leads to improved forecasting accuracy and better defined promotion strategies within existing systems. We help our clients find answers by exploring various structured and unstructured data sources to learn, predict, and make recommendations.

Education

• Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

  MBA, Finance & Management of Technology

  1994 — 1996

• Lycee Hedi Chaker

  Baccalaureate, Math-Sciences

  1977 — 1984

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  BSEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1986 — 1989

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Ph.D., Computer Engineering

  1991 — 1995

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  MSEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1989 — 1991

Skills

• Product Management
• Integration
• Demand Forecasting
• Software Implementation
• Saas
• Business Analysis
• Retail
• Erp
• Rdf
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Predictive Analytics
• Rpas
• Forecasting
• Enterprise Software
• Business Process
• Agile
• Agile Methodologies
• Business Intelligence
• Software Project Management
• Pre-Sales
• Retek
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Optimizations
• Optimization
• Professional Services
• Analytics
• IT Strategy