Our Founding Team
We are scientists. Builders. Entrepreneurs. We spearheaded many of AI’s most impactful applications. We led teams at Google, DeepMind, and EY Parthenon. We are now bridge cutting-edge AI research and the biopharma industry.
Marc G. Bellemare
Marc G. Bellemare, PhD, is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Reliant AI.
A Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila, his work on the Atari 2600 benchmark, published in Nature, is credited with launching the field of deep reinforcement learning (RL).
Marc has a history of applying cutting-edge RL commercially and previously led the RL team at Google Brain (Montréal) after his tenure as a research scientist at DeepMind (UK).
Richard Schlegel
Richard Schlegel, PhD, is a Co-Founder and Head of Commercial at Reliant AI.
With a strong background in life sciences, he holds a PhD from Imperial College London where he researched lung cancer.
Richard’s commercial experience includes consulting roles at Navigant/Guidehouse, and most recently, with the EY-Parthenon Life Sciences Strategy team.
Karl Moritz Hermann
Karl Moritz, DPhil, is a Co-Founder and CEO of Reliant AI.
He divides his time between fundamental research in machine learning and applying AI to the real world. He holds a doctorate from Oxford in computational linguistics and machine learning.
Having sold his first startup, Dark Blue Labs, to Google in 2014, he worked as a senior staff researcher at DeepMind for five years.
