Max is the co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) of Taktile, the leading modern decision engine for fintechs. After graduating with a PhD from Harvard University, he cut his teeth as a machine learning engineer in the financial services domain, working with hedge funds, banks, and insurance companies on modernizing and improving their quantitative decision-making. Inspired by this work, he started Taktile to build an engine that would help businesses make faster, smarter decisions. Today, Taktile is a trusted partner for fintechs and banks worldwide, helping customers with mission-critical use cases such as credit underwriting, fraud detection, and pricing. Taktile is funded by Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and the founders of UiPath, Datadog, Github, and Mulesoft.