Meet our team

Ted is the founder and CEO of Dataminr, where he pioneered the company’s real-time AI platform for detecting risks, events and critical information from public data signals. Since founding Dataminr in 2009, Ted has transformed the company into a world leading AI business that serves thousands of corporate, public sector and news organizations in more than 100 countries across six global offices. 

Long at the forefront of AI innovation, Ted has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer and Business Insider’s 40 under 40 Tech Entrepreneur. He’s also been a featured speaker at Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival and TechCrunch Disrupt.

Ted earned a BA from Yale University, with a focus on the impact of disruptive technologies.

Jeremy Bash is a member of the Dataminr board of directors. He is also a founder and Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies LLC. Jeremy formerly served as chief of staff in two national security entities: to the director of the CIA (2009-2011) and the U.S. secretary of defense (2011-2013).

Jeremy is a recognized expert on national security affairs, regularly providing commentary on defense issues, cybersecurity, counterintelligence investigations and more for NBC News and MSNBC.

Jeremy graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University and holds a law degree from Harvard Law School.

Nick Beim is a member of the Dataminr board of directors. He is also a Partner at Venrock where he focuses primarily on AI, software, fintech and defense early-stage investments.

Nick serves on the board of directors for the Council on Foreign Relations, America’s Frontier Fund and Endeavor. Previously, he was a partner at Matrix Partners and worked at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs.

He holds a BA in philosophy from Stanford University and an MPhil in international relations from Oxford University.

Cristina Bita is the audit chair of Dataminr’s board of directors. She is also Vice President of Finance at Google, and Business Finance Officer for Google’s Devices and Services and Global Marketing organizations.

Since joining Google in 2006, Cristina has served in a number of finance leadership roles across a range of business areas, including Sales and Business Development, Consumer Products, Platforms and Ecosystems, G&A, Technical Infrastructure and Enterprise. Prior to Google, she held various positions at Siemens/Osram.  

Cristina serves on the board of directors and audit committee of Prologis and holds a MSc in finance from Boston College and a BSc in business administration from Salem State University and is a certified management accountant (CMA).

Dave DeWalt is the Vice Chairman of the Board and the Chair of the Dataminr’s Corporate Market Advisory Board and the founder and CEO of NightDragon. A veteran CEO and one of the preeminent leaders in cybersecurity and technology, Dave has led some of the world’s most influential companies toward immense success over the past 30 years—creating more than $20B in shareholder value. 

Dave serves as managing director of Allegis Cyber and as an investor and board member at innovative companies such as Delta Airlines, Five9, Forescout and Optiv. He was also a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee for four U.S. administrations.

Steve Dow is a member of the Dataminr board of directors. As a General Partner at Dow Capital Partners, he serves as an advisor, mentor and board member for companies at the concept or seed stage. 

Steve currently serves as a board member of The Riekes Center and previously served on the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees at CalTech, the Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences Advisory Board, the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Trust and as trustee of the Crystal Springs Uplands School.

He holds a BS in economics and an MBA from Stanford University.

Jeff Kinsey is a co-founder of and Chief Technology Officer at Dataminr. Since launching Dataminr’s first engineering and AI team in 2009, he has designed and built numerous critical components of Dataminr’s AI platform, leading innovations in predictive and generative AI for real-time event detection.

As CTO, Jeff plays an instrumental role in driving strategic initiatives for the AI platform, including data ingest, stream processing and multimodal event detection. Prior to Dataminr, he operated a technical consulting practice, building analytics tools and software for research institutions and enterprises.

Jeff holds a BS in computer science from Yale University.

Juan Sabater is an observer for Dataminr’s board of directors. He is also Partner and Co-President of Valor Equity Partners, primarily responsible for its capital raise and client service functions. He also focuses on investment prospect generation, due diligence of potential investments, and investment structuring and execution.

Juan has over 25 years of private equity investing and investment banking experience. He serves on the boards of several charitable and professional organizations. He was also an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and was appointed by U.S. President Biden to the USMA Board of Visitors.  

He holds an AB in history from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford Law School.

Retired U.S. Air Force General Stephen W. “Seve” Wilson is a member of Dataminr’s Public Sector Advisory Board. The 4-star general has over 39 years of military service. He served as the 39th vice chief of staff of the Air Force, where he managed the organizing, training and equipping of over 685,000 active duty, National Guard and Reserve Airmen.

He sits on the board of the U.S.-based subsidiary of BAE Systems and is an advisor to New Vista Capital.