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Tarush is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years experience in the field.

After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com. Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework which Tarush built was critical in allowing Salesforce to analyse data across customers and provide benchmarks across different industries and verticals

Most recently Tarush led Data for WeWork, one of the fastest growing companies in the world. WeWork leveraged data to be able to grow 10x in 3 years, supporting a footprint of 800+ offices in 120+ cities in 23+ countries with over 12,000 employees. Tarush scaled the data org from 2 to 100+ and their unique approach allowed them to stay lean while supporting every functional area of the business. In 2019 he moved to China to help establish WeWork’s Asia operations and focus on the hyper growing Chinese market.

Qi graduated from Emory University, majoring in Information System and Operations Management. Qi started her career as a business analyst at Hyatt, where she found her passion in the data and analytics world. Prior to joining 5x, She has worked at Hyatt, Bank of Canada, Uber Eats, WeWork, and Ant Group, in different fields of analytics, such as marketing, finance, operations, and product. She has also worked in different countries, such as the US, Singapore, Netherlands, and China to experience different cultures.

Qi enjoyed working at fast-growing unicorn tech companies and she met Tarush at WeWork Shanghai, where Qi was hired as the first senior data analyst outside of WeWork’s New York headquarters. She led the product analytics with 10x growth in users, and helped the China data team grow from 1 to 15 members in 2 years.

Specializes in setting up and leading Engineering teams for complex Tech projects with over 10 years of experience in Technology.

After transitioning to a leadership role 7 years into his career, he has setup and multiple Engineering teams in Retail Lending, Retail Banking, Credit Cards and Merchant Services which successfully delivered Technology solutions at Barclays.

Most recently, Shrihari lead the Technology teams responsible for delivering real time Credit Decisioning solution which allowed the Bank to offer merchant services to businesses in the UK. This allowed the Bank to onboard more merchants, reduced customer dropouts and lead to exponential growth in this line of Business.

Product leader with a diverse range of experience, from engineering and developing his own apps, to scaling product teams across multiple timezones.

His career started out as the head of digital product strategy for a travel tech startup. Shortly after beginning his role, the pandemic set in, which caused a sudden stop to travel, and also, the company.

Jack was asked to lead the product for a Web3 startup aiming to use Linked data to build a problem solving hive mind. When funding had run out, Jack took it into his own hands to build the prototype to try to save the company.

Choosing a new direction, Jack had an interest in artificial intelligence, and decided to build an AI that could understand handstands from a video feed. He taught himself iOS development, and built a working demo. Following this, he became a technical co-founder, developing yet another prototype app using Unity and C#. Jack’s range of experience attracted attention and he was offered a job to lead the product team for a blockchain company building an NFT launchpad platform. Here he implemented Agile, and rallied a growing team across 4 different timezones as the product manager, scrum master, and product owner.

From Spain, Ester has experience with business, finance and operations management. She worked for 4 years at KPMG in Barcelona, one of the big four consulting firms.

She got involved in 2 startups across 2 continents.

In 2019, Ester went to live in Bali, Indonesia where she developed her passion about people and culture, their general well-being and creating value.

Leaning on her natural ability to care for others, she joined 5x to provide support and manage all 5xNetwork engineers.
She loves making sure that potential future 5x engineers resonate with 5x values and once on board, they have everything they need.

Her core value: make engineer’s lives better.

Philip is a Finance Professional with 16 years of overall experience in business partnering, FPRA, financial controlling, working capital management, investment appraisals, accounting and process improvement.

Starting off as an entrepreneur in IT in 2000, he ran an IT product business and was able to secure a contract with one of the key players Pinnacle Micro. From there he moved to Financial Advisory services with specialization in risk mitigation and investment. The next stop was Anglo Platinum in the mining industry where he worked in the logistics field whilst studying.

After graduating with a degree in Financial Management from the University of Pretoria in 2005, Philip started working for Siemens as a Project Controller. Since then, Nokia acquired Siemens Telecoms and Philip enjoyed various different exciting roles in the company.

One of his roles was as a Senior Financial controller. It is a senior role in Nokia and has a strategic position – being the interface and driver/facilitator for many finance – CO/BG business topics. It provides strong support to the account director and Offer Controlling functions, during pre-sales phase and sales phase.

In this role he oversaw a small team of six colleagues and supported the key accounts to increase order intake, revenue and margin whilst ensuring compliance on internal controls.

Philip secured his associate status with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in 2022.

Bhavik is a data warehouse professional who started his journey as a PL/SQL developer back in 2012. Prior to joining 5x, he was at Accenture working with different Enterprise clients across Europe and North America – delivering value via various BI projects. He has played various roles for these BI projects – being a database developer, data warehouse system analyst, data engineer, data modeller.

He is the first data engineer to join 5x in 2021. While at 5x – he has worked with 10s of clients understanding their requirements and aligning himself as well as the team to achieve the client requirements. Always keen on learning new tools in the data space and help the clients achieve their goals faster. while working with 5x clients – he has worked with many tools for the first time and strived to get it right. he acts as an advocate for client team as well as the 5x team and balances the expectations and the outcomes.

Excited about things happening in the modern data stack, and never misses a chance to write sql queries and explore the unknown.