zVelo Bolsters Technical Leadership with Chief Categorization Scientist Hiring

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - Sept. 9, 2014 - PRLog -- zVelo, Inc., a global provider of contextual categorization and malicious website detection services, has announced the hiring of Dr. Ignacio Giraldez to the role of Chief Categorization Scientist. Dr. Giraldez will play an integral part in defining the company’s strategic vision and product roadmap for its content and contextual categorization technologies.

“We are thrilled to welcome Ignacio to the company,” noted Jeff Finn, CEO of zVelo. “He has a deep understanding and expertise in the areas of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and we look forward to the immediate and ongoing contributions he can make to further and preserve zVelo’s competitive advantage.”

Dr. Giraldez is the author of numerous research publications, and has participated as Principal Investigator in multiple research projects. He is also the founder of Knowledgeworks and Web Engineering S.L.U., a technological start-up where he developed software to gather customer intelligence information from the Internet.

Dr. Giraldez has developed his research career at Universidad Carlos III, Harvard University and Universidad Europea and holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence.

About zVelo, Inc.
zVelo is a leading provider of contextual categorization and malicious website detection services that are used to generate a wide range of data sets, including language, category values (including IAB Tier 2), sentiment, ad fraud, malicious and more for URLs, the Deep Web and unstructured data. These data sets can be accessed through simple, straightforward SDKs and APIs for integration with applications in the ad-tech, big data analytics, network security and endpoint security, and other use cases where contextual categorization accuracy, responsiveness, coverage, malicious detection, high performance throughput and scalability are required. To learn more, visit https://zvelo.com.