Ontotext – Our Semantic Technology CompanyThe driving force behind everything we do is to put enterprises back in control of their knowledge assets and to help them run, grow and evolve their business efficiently. By transforming the way organizations identify meaning across diverse datasets and massive amounts of unstructured information, we help them see a much bigger picture. We make this possible because we know how to combine semantic graph databases with text mining and machine learning. This brings data and content together in big knowledge graphs to allow better interlinking, interpreting, analyzing and reuse.The vision behind all our technology is to enable machines to interpret data and text, which empowers our customers to reveal more facts and relationships quickly and with less effort. By interlinking data in graphs that model knowledge as it is represented in the human’s brain, we enable enterprises not only to access this knowledge, but also to interpret and analyze it. We can then interlink this data with text by generating metadata that also becomes part of the knowledge graph allowing even more complex analytics and querying of hidden information. Finally, we integrate open data with proprietary data and commercial databases to make use of the exponentially growing web of open data.OntotextONTXT_b053ccd4-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea00Started in 2000 as R&D lab within Sirma Group, a top 3 Bulgarian software company, Ontotext introduced the concept of semantic annotation: the process of interlinking text with big knowledge graphs.Sirma GroupAtanas KiryakovCEO -- Atanas Kiryakov is the founder and CEO of Ontotext and a member of the board of the Linked Data Benchmarking Council – astandardization body, who’s members include the major graph database vendors. Kiryakov obtained his M.Sc. degree in AI from the Sofia University, Bulgaria, in 1995. Today he is a top expert in semantic graph databases, reasoning, knowledge graphs, text mining, semantic tagging, linking and search. He’s also an author of signature academic publications with more than 2500 citations. Atanas is a partner and a board member in Sirma Group Holding – one of the biggest Bulgarian IT businesses, listed at the Sofia Stock Exchange. Atanas started in Sirma as a software engineer in 1993 and became a partner in 1997. In the 90s he led projects in the areas of CASE, CSCW and b2b for big corporations and government organizations in the US and Canada. In the year 2000 Atanas dropped off his PhD to start Ontotext as an R&D lab within Sirma Group. In 2004 Kiryakov masterminded Ontotext GraphDB (initially named OWLIM) and was its product manager until 2010. In 2008 he led the process of acquiring VC funding for Ontotext and spinning it off as a worldwide leader in semantic technology. In 2016 Atanas has been included in the ‘New Europe 100 — changemakers in central and eastern Europe’ list compiled by Res Publica, Google, Visegrad Fund and the Financial Times.Veska DavidovaCOO -- Veska Davidova joined Ontotext as COO in 2014 and now takes care of sales, finance and delivery. Veska is an established business leader, a Master of Science in Engineering and Process Automation, a golf and tennis aficionado and a mother of two sons. Before joining Ontotext, she was CEO of Atos IT Solution & Services. Under Veska’s skillful command, the company went through a complete transformation after the global M&A between Atos Origin and Siemens. Veska has also been a management board member at Siemens Bulgaria in her role of CTO, and was in charge of the Healthcare and IT businesses within the regional Siemens company. She has held various positions at Hewlett Packard, with core responsibilities of providing consultation in the financial services industry across the EMEA, localizing and formalizing core IT based concepts for the public sector, manufacturing and FSI.Vassil MomtchevCTO -- Vassil Momtchev’s specialty at Ontotext is the development of solutions in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and healthcare domains.An explorer by heart, Vassil possesses remarkable enthusiasm that knows no borders. He feels equally comfortable in product development, software architecture, text analytics, linked data, knowledge management, reasoning and large-scale databases. Vassil has been involved in developing innovative information systems for Pharma and adopting the latest trends from applied research for more than 15 years now – and counting. For the past ten years at Ontotext, he has managed multiple teams, coordinated several EU funded research projects and has a few years as a board member behind his back.Besides a skillful team leader, Vassil is in love with off-the-beaten-path travel destinations, where he can delight his growing family with new experiences.Ivaylo KabakovSemantic Analytics Solutions -- Ivaylo joined Ontotext in 2009 after several years of experience with different companies, covering the entire size spectrum – from two-person start-ups to 100k+ employee global corporations. His pursuit of interesting challenges brought him to Ontotext, where his passion for making computers do fascinating things met with the cutting edge developments in semantic technologies. Ivaylo’s involvement with the company has guided him through the full stack of duties for delivering solutions to clients. His strive has always been for adding practical value, while doing it with pedantic focus on quality. Ivaylo’s keen interest in solving problems of global significance has always gone hand in hand with his enthusiasm for science and philosophy. He says he’s happy that these two realms are brought together in his professional life, which is touching on several areas of AI research. His ultimate goal is contributing to the effort of making sure that the development of super-intelligence, which he sees as close enough to care, is well-aligned with humanity’s goals and best interests. When not involved in the next cool semantic solution, Ivaylo enjoys moving forward – either by running a marathon or by operating all types of vehicles with an engine, preferably leading him to new encounters with interesting people.Todor PrimovResearch and Innovation -- Todor Primov has experience as a business analyst, solution architect, project manager and product owner in the life science and healthcare IT. He has 18+ years long track record of development and delivery of large scale semantic data integration, information extraction and semantic search solutions in various domains such as bioinformatics, clinical, pharmaceuticals, agro-bio and health care. Todor has excellent understanding of the business value of data and semantic technologies with primary focus on addressing the problems end-to-end (from vision definition to the implementation and deployment) of in large-scale information discovery and analytical solutions. He was part of multiple successful projects in data integration for life sciences, including highly scalable sequence repositories, semantic meta data integration of biomedical entities, interactive visualization of data. Todor participated in the specification, implementation, deployment and the support of the first National Health Portal and Integrated Personal Health Record in Bulgaria.Panayot PanayotovData Management ProductsDoychin DamyanovManaged Services and SupportPeio PopovVP Business Operations USA, Sales Director Financial Service -- Peio Popov joined Ontotext after years of successful work at IBM and SEP Bulgaria. He is a legal counsel with strong IT background, specializing in business development, intellectual property, and technology-related contract negotiations. Plus, he is one of the most influential people in Bulgarian social media, so mind your language on Twitter. Soon after coming on board as a Contracts and Negotiations Manager advising on commercial, technology and IP contracts, Peio took over business development in North America. Combining his outstanding organizational skills with his acute business flair, he seamlessly finds the best solutions for our customers. Besides being highly skillful in business operations, Peio’s professional focus spans software licensing and development, free software and Open Data licensing issues, text analysis and Information extraction, PKI and Identity services and applicable cryptography, among others. Peio is well-known in the Linux society in Bulgaria and is an Open Data advocate. He is truly fond of travelling, but only for the sake of learning human stories. And yes, Peio can spend a whole weekend writing scripts to analyze the protocols of the National Assembly or artefacts of the Communist Party meetings without losing his sense of humor.Ilian UzunovSales Director Life-science and Healthcare -- Ilian Uzunov joined us to strengthen Ontotext’s key position in the mainstream publishing industry, develop strategic partnerships and pursue business opportunities in EMEA. With a Master’s degree in Contemporary Methodologies for Teaching and Learning English Language with Strong Use of ICT from Sofia University, later Ilian jumped in the deep end with an MBA programme in Executive Management from BEIED. Prior to Ontotext, Ilian founded Sirma Media in 2002 and in 2008 spun it off as an independent company. He positioned Sirma Media among the major players in the fields of e-learning and modern presentation of cultural heritage in Bulgaria, accomplishing some of the most innovative and challenging nation-wide projects in these two domains. Ilian is truly fond of finding new ways in which semantic technology can be harnessed for the sake of better and more efficient learning and teaching. After working for more than 15 years in the fields of publishing, education, e-learning, contemporary ways for management and presentation of cultural heritage, his enthusiasm is only understandable. When Ilian is not supporting publishers in their digital transformation journey, he’s constantly looking for the road to his inner self with the help of his family and their constant pursuit of new sports and travel adventures.Nikolay KrustevSales Director Manufacturing and Public Sector -- Nikolay Krustev joined Ontotext in 2011 with rich technical experience stretching from software development, architecture, business analysis and project management. In his career prior to Ontotext he gradually moved closer and closer from purely technical to more business-oriented roles while keeping close ties to his technical background. Nikolay’s straightforward approach and social skills are proving to be most valuable in his typical working scenarios – dealing with new clients in new industries and via new business models as well as creating fruitful long-term win-win business relationships. His off-duty activities include founding the Bulgarian Basketball Society and managing the most successful amateur basketball team in Bulgaria with more than 17 titles. His technical hunger is currently fed mostly by blockchain burgers.Milen YankulovMarketing Manager -- Milen Yankulov joined the Marketing Team to strengthen its digital marketing presence and lead generation capabilities. Milen holds MA of Marketing and Commerce and gained vast experience in both traditional and digital marketing communications. Milen has broad marketing experience working as head of digital at International marketing agencies and Enterprises in the media publishing industry. He believes that the content is fundamental tool of providing marketing value and business specifics understanding. Milen has more than 13 years marketing and sales experience in Media, Advertising, Web and IT industries. His professional interests are related but not limited with Web and News Medias, Semantic Search and Social channels and all digital disruptions that change the way we communicate and do business.Our customers are empowered to reveal more facts and relationships quickly and with less effort._b053ce1e-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea00To interlink text with big knowledge graphs._b053cf0e-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea00KnowledgeWe have a passion for knowledge. We believe that bringing more knowledge to more people will make the world a better place.InnovationWe are restless about innovation. We are always in pursuit of better ways to get things done, opening doors for new ideas and approaches.CareWe care about what we do and the people we do it with. We respect, listen, consult and support.Technology ExcellenceWe strive for technology excellence. We love turning complex science and advanced technology into simple working solutions.TransparencyWe have high regard for transparency. We believe that it’s what all relationships are built on.KnowledgeEnable enterprises to access, interpret and analyze knowledge._b053cfd6-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea001Interlinking data in graphs that model knowledge as it is represented in the human’s brain, we enable enterprises not only to access this knowledge, but also to interpret and analyze it._b053d094-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea00Queries & AnalyticsAllow complex analytics and querying of hidden information._b053d152-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea002We can then interlink this data with text by generating metadata that also becomes part of the knowledge graph allowing even more complex analytics and querying of hidden information._b053d224-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea00IntegrationIntegrate open data with proprietary data and commercial databases._b053d2ec-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea003Finally, we integrate open data with proprietary data and commercial databases to make use of the exponentially growing web of open data._b053d3aa-3886-11ea-abe6-fc101e83ea002020-01-16https://www.ontotext.com/company/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net