Gil Syswerda

Mr. Gil Syswerda is Chief Scientist at Percipio Asset Management LLC and a Member at Walnut Ventures Associates.
Mr. Syswerda co-founded Optimax Systems Corp.
in 1993, where he served as CTO and Chairman.
Optimax was acquired by i2 Technologies in 1997, where he served first as acting CTO and later as Director of Advanced Technologies.
He is active in professional circles, having served on the organizing and program committees of many conferences on genetic algorithms and as President of the International Society of Genetic Algorithms.
For five years prior to the founding of Optimax, he was employed by BBN as a computer scientist in the Intelligent Systems Group, where his research concentrated in the areas of machine learning, genetic algorithms, and machine vision.
From 1985 to 1988, he consulted as a scientific programmer to Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis.
In 1984 he co-founded and served as President of Ann Arbor Softworks, a firm which developed commercial software products for the newly introduced Apple Macintosh.
Mr. Syswerda received his BA with Distinction in 1986 from the University of Michigan, where he also earned his MS in Computer Science in 1987.