Ian Clarke is a Computer Scientist and Entrepreneur, with a track record of both technical and business innovation, and an outspoken thinker and activist on issues relating to freedom of speech, intellectual property law, and technology. Ian is the founder and coordinator of the Freenet Project; designed to allow true freedom of communication, Freenet was the first decentralized anonymous peer-to-peer network, and a precursor of the "distributed hashtable"​ data structure. Ian's current project is Propheto. It predicts the future. Ian has also founded a number of innovative and diverse commercial ventures, including Revver, the first online video website to share revenue with video creators, and Thoof, a collaboratively generated personalized news website, SenseArray, a flexible predictive analytics system, and OneSpot, an online advertising company.

Founder & CEO @ Propheto predicts the future. This new approach to machine learning will take your data and use it to automatically build a model of how your customers interact with your business over time. It makes no assumptions, it's entirely data-driven, so it will work for a wide variety of business models. We can then use the model it builds to predict what they will do in the future, and how to get them to do more of what you want. From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Austin, Texas AreaCo-founder and Advisor @ From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Austin, Texas AreaAdvisor @ From October 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) Austin, Texas AreaAdvisor @ From March 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Chief Executive Officer @ Uprizer Labs has developed sophisticated collaborative technology used by household-name companies ranging from targeted advertising to online dating. From January 2008 to Present (7 years 10 months) Austin, Texas AreaMentor @ From 2009 to Present (6 years) Austin, Texas AreaFounder and Project Coordinator @ I am the founder and project coordinator of The Freenet Project, a non-profit free software effort to ensure true freedom of communication on the Internet. Freenet was the first decentralized anonymous peer-to-peer network. Freenet has received a lot of attention over the years, including articles in virtually every major English-speaking newspaper, and coverage on many major television news channels and programmes (including the BBC, CNN, 60 Minutes 2, and others). Freenet has also attracted interest in the academic world. A paper we wrote in 2000 became the most cited computer science paper of that year (according to citeseer). In addition to coming up with the initial concept for Freenet, I handle media coverage for the project, and also continue to set the direction for the project going forward. Freenet was an early, perhaps the earliest example of a "distributed hashtable" - a data structure commonly used in P2P networks and decentralized databases today. From June 1999 to Present (16 years 5 months) Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer @ At OneSpot, Ian recruited and managed a world-class team of software engineers and data scientists. Together with his team, Ian employed state-of-the-art machine learning, control theory, and other advanced techniques to architect a sophisticated and scalable realtime bidding engine, capable of processing tens of thousands of auctions per second. Later, taking advantage of its scalability and flexibility, this architecture was leveraged to build additional products, including the OnSite recommendation engine. From February 2012 to July 2015 (3 years 6 months) Austin, Texas AreaAdvisor @ Oversee technology build-out, bring on-board a talented and cost-effective development team, and provide advice on both technical and business matters to the management team. From March 2011 to March 2012 (1 year 1 month) Advisor @ Acted as a sounding board for the senior management team on both technical and business issues. From January 2008 to January 2012 (4 years 1 month) Founder and CEO @ Thoof developed a unique recommendation technology which can anticipate a user's needs right from when they first visit a website. Thoof has proven this technology on its own social news website, and licenses the technology for use on third-party sites. Thoof successfully raised $1M in seed funding from Austin Ventures and Ron Conway. As CEO, I was primarily responsible from all aspects of Thoof's operation, including initial concept, technical architecture, fundraising, business development, and recruitment. From December 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 2 months) Co-founder & Chief Scientist @ Co-founded company, developed many of the initial ideas underlying Revver, oversaw initial technology development before moving to a Chief Scientist role which involved development of solutions to numerous mission-criticial technical issues including detection of click-fraud, ad targeting, a novel scalable collaborative filter, integration of audio fingerprint filtering technologies, and the technology integration of an ERP system. From February 2005 to December 2006 (1 year 11 months) Chief Executive Officer @ I was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cematics LLC, a software consulting and product development company specializing in peer-to-peer. Cematics most significant project was to design and build a P2P live video streaming technology for Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, it was part of a project that later became known as Joost. From September 2002 to January 2005 (2 years 5 months) Chief Technology Officer @ I am the founder and formerly Chief Technology Officer of Uprizer Inc. Uprizer received $4MM in funding from investors including Intel Capital and Kline Hawkes & Company in 2001. I was responsible for overall technology vision and development, and remain on Uprizer's board of directors. From January 2001 to September 2002 (1 year 9 months) Software developer @ I worked on a web-based auction system in Java, using technologies including XSLT. From February 2000 to August 2000 (7 months) Software developer @ I worked as a software developer on a variety of projects in Logica's Space Division, including a web-based satellite imagery retrieval system. From July 1999 to February 2000 (8 months) Intern @ I worked on a Java-based network management system at 3Com's Edinburgh office. From July 1998 to September 1998 (3 months) Intern @ Over this summer STRS, a computer rental company, were branching out into the server co-location business. Needless to say, doing this in 1997 in the UK - we had few precedents to follow, and had to figure things out as we went along. I worked to build out their initial hosting infrastructure, setting up a network, and a server monitoring system. From June 1997 to September 1997 (4 months) Intern @ Hands On Ltd was an early Internet cafe venture based in Surrey, England. It was created by the same team that created Electronics Boutique. A friend of my father (who was an investor) got me the job, and initially they had trouble finding a way to keep me busy. Before long I noticed that a company wanted to charge them almost US$30,000 to build a point-of-sale system. I suggested that I could build the same system in 2 weeks (obviously at vastly lower cost). I did it and the resultant software was deployed around the country. From July 1996 to September 1996 (3 months)

Bachelor’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science @ The University of Edinburgh From 1995 to 1999 Ian Clarke is skilled in: Java, Scala, Haskell, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Business Planning, Collaborative Filtering, Business Development, Web Applications, Entrepreneurship, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Big Data, Start-ups, Machine Learning, User Experience, Enterprise Software, Peer-to-peer, E-commerce, Software Development, Strategic Partnerships