James Isilay is the co-founder and CEO of Cognism, one of the fastest-growing
SaaS companies in the UK. An inspirational and enterprising businessman, James approaches work with unrivalled technical and organisational skills, perseverance, precision and total dedication.

Before founding Cognism, James was employed as an Algorithmic Trader at Axpo
Group and as a Quantitative/Technical Analyst at EGL Trading. James has an
MEng in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College London. He is an
expert in lead generation, sales management and alpha discovery using
algorithmic technologies, natural language processing and machine learning.