Intelligence. Beautifully engineered. We build bespoke decision.

About Us

In recent years, information has gone from scarce to superabundant, affording businesses an unprecedented opportunity to capture and store ever more data about their processes, projects, investments, and customers. The challenge for businesses is increasingly how to extract and derive actionable intelligence from this data. More than ever, competing effectively hinges on data analysis and technology capabilities.

QuantumBlack helps companies use data to drive decisions. We combine business experience, expertise in large-scale data analysis and visualization, and advanced software engineering know-how to deliver results. From aerospace to finance to Formula One, we help companies prototype, develop, and deploy bespoke decision technologies to make better decisions.

Clients

  • BNP Paribas
  • Boeing
  • CitiGroup
  • ESRI UK
  • Harvard University
  • Lab49
  • Lotus Renault GP
  • McKinsey & Co.
  • Microsoft Consulting
  • Microsoft Research
  • Reed Elsevier
  • The Wharton School

Management

Simon Williams

Chief Executive

Simon has over 16 years’ international experience in strategy development, business intelligence and product management.

Previously he founded and led SmithBayes, a spinoff of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One team, as CEO, was VP Strategy and Technology at ABN AMRO Bank, CEO at Nerve Wireless and Global Product Manager at Reuters.

He has featured frequently in the media, including Time, FT, CNBC, Sunday Telegraph and BBC Newsnight and talks on the subject of adaptive strategy to MBA classes at Wharton, Harvard, Cambridge, and LBS.

Jacomo Corbo, PhD

Chief Scientist

Jacomo has 8 years’ experience in large-scale data modeling, analysis, and algorithm development, first at Harvard, then for the Renault Formula One team, then with data-heavy startups.

Jacomo is also a Research Fellow and Clayright Scholar at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University, an S.M. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.

Sam Bourton

Chief Technology Officer

Sam has over 12 years’ software engineering experience. He has designed and built over 30 best-of-breed .NET, Silverlight, WPF, and Surface applications for clients throughout the world.

Sam led the design and development of the trackside management software for the Red Bull Racing Formula One team, was Lead Engineer at SmithBayes, and built the simulation platform used to analyze the Lebanese elections.

He co-authored the book ‘WPF Recipes: A Problem/Solution Approach’ and has published an open source framework for rapidly building WPF, Silverlight and Surface apps. He holds a 1st class honours degree from the University of Manchester and regularly speaks at conferences and tech nights.