B.K. Gogia, Executive Chairman & Founder
An accomplished business leader and entrepreneur with recognized expertise and notable credentials in the technology industry, Mr. Gogia brings InferX proven skill in developing and executing strategic plans for advanced analytical solutions for privacy preserving in emerging markets. Mr. Gogia established InferX in 1999 to commercialize distributed data mining software developed at Datamat Systems Research, Inc., an research and development firm he founded in 1992 to develop advanced analytical solutions to serve government agencies, including Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), National Geo-Spatial Agency (NGA), Department of the Navy and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Prior to this, he served as Technical Director/Software Manager at Science Applications International Corporation, and held a senior technical position with Lockheed Martin Corporation. He began his career as a systems engineer and software developer with Data General in the field of compilers and operating systems.Mr. Gogia is a graduate of the prestigious Mindshare program for CEOs of the most promising technology companies located in the greater Washington, D.C. area. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Delhi, India; a Master's of Science degree in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology; and a postgraduate management degree with a major in Marketing from Institute of Marketing and Management, India.
Vijay Suri, CEO & President
Vijay Suri is the founder and President of The Irus Group, which merged with InferX in 2009. Mr. Suri brings over 20 years of experience designing and implementing large and complex business intelligence and corporate performance management solutions using OLAP, Data Warehousing and ERP technologies. Prior to starting The Irus Group, Inc., he served in various management positions at Fannie Mae, Information Resources Incorporated (IRI Software) and Oracle Corporation. Mr. Suri developed the "Iterative Prototyping Development Approach" (IPDA) Methodology for implementing OLAP and Data Warehousing Projects. Under his guidance, The Irus Group has emerged as a market leader in the Business Intelligence and Analytics community, as well as a global firm offering large-scale, turn-key solutions.Mr. Suri holds an MBA from Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, a graduate of the Leadership Development Program from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and a graduate from the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program (HBS-OPM 37), a comprehensive multi-year program helping global business leaders understand the strategic and tactical challenges and opportunities associated with owning, running, and sustaining a profitable enterprise.
Dr. Jerzy W. Bala, Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder
Dr. Jerzy Bala is the key architect of InferX's product suite and is a noted expert in decision support systems, distributed data mining, machine learning, automatic target recognition, genetic algorithms, advanced visualization and intelligent information retrieval and extraction. During his 12 year career, he served as a Principle Investigator engaged in a number of projects supporting the Navy, Air Force, DARPA, MDA and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.Dr. Bala has conceived several new data mining techniques; among them, a distributed machine learning-based mining approach (InferAgent), a data mining approach geared towards the interactive acquisition and display of visual knowledge representations (InferView), data mining approaches for rule induction from computer vision generated data, a Genetic Algorithms-based approach for knowledge model refinement, and a machine learning-based cleansing approach for highly contaminated data environments. His Ph.D. thesis described a class of symbolic machine learning-based mining techniques for inferring visual concept descriptions from low-level sensory databases. His research has produced 90 publications in the form of book chapters, journals and conference proceedings.
A Ph.D. graduate in Computer Science of George Mason University, Dr. Bala earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. In May 1993, he was awarded a two-year prestigious postdoctoral research grant by the National Science Foundation in Computational Science and Engineering to investigate a class of multi-strategy machine learning algorithms.
Ray Piluso, Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer, Ray Piluso serves as the firm's Operations Executive leading and implementing company growth initiatives, delivery operations plans, business development, and sales and marketing strategies. Mr. Piluso leads and executes business growth through organic business capture and supports strategic teaming initiatives. He began his career in the U.S. Army and transferred to private industry to lead technology implementation for a large-scale Defense program.Mr. Piluso is a senior operations and sales executive with more that 19 years of information technology solutions experience that span from small to large enterprise environments. Holding various leadership positions, Mr. Piluso has a proven record of building teams that have earned reputations for quality excellence, solution delivery and customer satisfaction. Companies he has worked at, before joining the firm, include the Advanced Technology, Inc., PRC, Inc., Cameron Run Group, Inc., Compaq Computer, and Hewlett-Packard, Inc. In addition to 19 years experience in the private sector, Mr. Piluso currently serves in the U.S. Army Reserve. With over 28 years of total military service, Mr. Piluso brings operational, managerial, and technical experience, including assignments around the globe.
Mr. Piluso holds a B.S. degree from University of Southern Colorado, along with multiple certifications from various technology companies.
