Infrastructure UWE WEISS | BLUE YONDER CEO SPEAKER BIO As CEO, Uwe Weiss is responsible for Blue Yonder’s strategic direction. He joined the company in December 2010 at a very early stage of Blue Yonder’s development and has been able to grow the company into an award-winning market leader in the space of Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. Mr. Weiss is a passionate software entrepreneur and was co-founder, board member, interim executive, and shareholder of several fast-growing software companies. KEY CORPORATE FACTS & KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters Karlsruhe, Germany Machine learning is poised to drive the next wave of innovation in software. Across retail, investments in machine learning have accelerated materially. Blue Yonder, headquartered in Office Locations Karlsruhe, Hamburg, London, Dallas Karlsruhe, Germany, is a leading global player in the field of dynamic enterprise applications for retail, based on artificial intelligence and machine-learning. Founded 2008 No of Employees 150 + With its roots in CERN, Blue Yonder uses its machine learning platform to harness big data to bring foresight and intelligence into existing transactional systems. Active Markets Retail and adjacent markets Blue Yonder´s SaaS based AI solutions automate pricing, supply chain, and customer targeting, bringing decision automation rates close to 100% while at the same time increasing SaaS-based predictive applications for revenue and margins. Business Overview enterprise customers In December 2014 Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, Recent Milestones Internationalization into the UK and the US has committed $75 million to support the company’s further growth and expansion. Ownership Founders and investors Total Funding $75m Key Investors Warburg Pincus, Otto Website blue-yonder.com 34
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