Currently

• Head of AI · Zoovu
• Data Scientist in Residence · Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
• Venture Partner · Cherry Ventures

Founder exits

• R2Decide, AI-driven decision tooling for e-commerce. Sold 2026 to XGen AI.
• Fisheye Analytics, social-media analytics + bot detection. Sold 2013 to Kantar (WPP).

Formerly

Snap Inc. · Google · LinkedIn (Director, Data Science).

Author

• Forbes column on AI, 50+ articles.
• Ask, Measure, Learn (O'Reilly, 2014), with Soumitra Dutta.
• Designing and Building AI Solutions, the Cornell certificate.
• Google Scholar, academic publications.

Education

MBA, INSEAD · MS Quantum Physics, TU Berlin.

More on LinkedIn · talk to me at hello@lutzfinger.com.