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Author: Felix Laboy, CEO Felix was formerly President & GM at Sabre Hospitality Solutions, CEO & CoFounder at E-site Marketing, Executive VP at the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau, and Executive positions at Ritz-Carlton, Westin, and Four Seasons. Felix is a Cornell University School of Hotel Administration graduate and member of the Stanford University Parent’s Advisory Board. He also enjoys participating in triathlons and has traveled to all seven continents including Antarctica and a recent climb to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. His favorite travel destination is Madrid. Contributing Experts: Ricky Stillwell, Lead Engineer At WayBlazer, Ricky focuses on the intersection of data and technology, having developed the initial graph, NLP, and backend frameworks. Most recently, he was a member on the IBM Watson core development team and helped mature Watson from a Jeopardy competitor to a doctor and research analyst. Previous to Watson, he was on IBM's emerging technology team which focused on bringing new technology to market in a fast paced development environment. Ricky holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas Tech University. His professional interest lies in applying new technology to markets that have not yet been transformed. He likes to spend his free time restoring vintage computers from the 1970's. Melanie Tosik, Research Engineer Bringing her linguistic expertise to WayBlazer, Melanie leads a research team focused on developing complex, real-world applications of NLP and ML. Melanie holds a B.S. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Potsdam. Her main research interest is in computational semantics — the computation and representation of meaning in natural language. WayBlazer Austin, Texas howdy@wayblazer.com 12