Team
Meet the AI researchers, business & operational professionals, software engineers, and data scientists behind Haldune and our commitment to IA: Intelligence Amplification.
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Operational Team
Sawiros Abebe
Co-Founder & CEO
CS & AI, UChicago
Firas Hashmi
Co-Founder, Chairman & CTO
Physics & AI, UChicago
Jay Parrish
Chief Operating Officer
Former Green Beret; MPP, UChicago (2025)
Xiaoyue Wei
Head of Commercial Business Development
MPP, UChicago (2025)
Jared Canty
Senior Software Engineer
MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy, UChicago (2025)
Michael Ortiz-Benz
Head of Customer Relations
Documentarian, BA in Political Science, UChicago (2025)
John Rugemalila
Incoming Full Stack Development Intern
Advisors
Yawar Shah
Advisor
Former Chairman of SWIFT, Former Managing Director at Citi
Andrew Bezaitis
Advisor
Principal, Apopleo, Inc.
Yun Zhao
Advisor, Cybersecurity Auditor
Senior Information Security Engineer, Mastercard, MBA Chicago Booth (2026)
Research Advisory Board
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