Senior Engineering Director & Head of Data Science at Meltwater, Lecturer at Oxford University, UK

Tim Furche is the Senior Director for Engineering at Meltwater, the leading global media intelligence company. In his role he manages teams on four continents that are collaboratively responsible for ingesting and enriching over 1 billion documents per day, from Tweets over reviews to news articles from all over the world. Before Meltwater, he co-founded Wrapidity, a data extraction startup that built a patented AI crawler used to extract billions of rich records from hundreds of thousands of sources which has been acquired and integrated into Meltwater. He is also a Lecturer on big data and data management at the University of Oxford.