Humayun Sheikh
Humayun Sheikh is the Founder and CEO of Fetch.ai, an open-source and permissionless network advancing solutions for the emerging decentralized finance sector. As an innovator and problem solver, he leads Fetch.ai in building, deploying, and monetizing the new generation of artificial intelligence economy. Humayun is a serial entrepreneur and tech visionary with a track record of successful projects in both the technology and commodities spaces. He has over 20 years of experience in trading commodities, developing machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, predicting markets, and working with various AI projects to deploy commercially valuable usage to AI. He is passionate about AI and machine learning and strongly believes in a paradigm shift in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Humayun was an early investor in several tech companies including DeepMind, where he supported commercialization of early-stage AI & deep neural network technology. DeepMind was acquired by Google.
Humayun Sheikh Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Academic History
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Business Management, Business Administration and Management, Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Center
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B.E., Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering
FETCH.AI
Fetch.ai leverages artificial intelligence to create a decentralized machine learning system that can execute tasks on the blockchain.
The platform provides a framework for building and customizing decentralized, autonomous AI networks to carry out complex coordination tasks.
Today, Fetch.ai is focused on solving today's challenges surrounding blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Humayun is now designing tomorrow's digital economy, creating what will look to many like a Hollywood Matrix-like reality.
VENTURES
He was a seed investor and commercial deployment lead in DeepMind and provided early-stage support to artificial intelligence and deep neural network technology.
DeepMind, widely regarded as the leading force in the development of artificial intelligence globally, was ultimately acquired by Google for $500 million in 2014.
He was an early investor in PLUMgrid, the cloud solution provider acquired by VMWare.
He also served as Founder and CEO of Mettalex, the world's first P2P order book and agent-based DEX.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Humayun has been quoted or featured in Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, CoinDesk, Binance, and more.