Who We Are

Pathway is building live AI systems that think and learn in real-time as humans do. Underpinned by the fastest data processing engine on the market and an AI framework, Pathway lays the foundations for an organization’s full and evolving AI transformation journey without the need for re-platforming. Pathway is trusted by the likes of NATO, La Poste and Formula 1 racing teams.

Headed by co-founder & CEO, Zuzanna Stamirowska, the team’s leading AI experts include co-founder & CTO Jan Chorowski, co-author of the Nobel Prize winner, Geoff Hinton. Pathway is backed by Business Angel Lukasz Kaiser, who co-authored Transformers (the “T” in ChatGPT) and is the key researcher behind GPT o1 from OpenAI.

Zuzanna Stamirowska

CEO

• Created state-of-the-art forecasting models for complex network evolution - published by the Academy of Sciences of The United States of America
• On the cover of Le Point - “100 geniuses whose innovation will change the world”.
• Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences Po, Stockholm School of Economics. PhD in Complex Systems, expert in Game Theory on graphs.

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Jan Chorowski

CTO

• Co-author of Nobel Prize Winner Geoff Hinton
• Ex-MILA, ex-Google Brain (Sami Bengio’s team)
• Contributed to early attention models, co-author of Theano,
• 12k citations, h index of 24. (Google Scholar)
• Built the tech organization at Pathway.

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Adrian Kosowski

CSO

• PhD at 20 in algorithms, tenured at 23 at Inria
• 100+ scientific papers, h index of 29,
• Early pioneer of navigable small world search (ACM SPAA Best Paper)
• Top publications across graph algorithms, graph walks, distributed and agentic computing, quantum information, self organizing bio-inspired systems.
• Professor and Coach of competitive programmers at Ecole Polytechnique
• Co-founder of the first and largest online community of competitive programmers, Spoj.com.

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Victor Szczerba

CCO

• GVP at SAP, Market Development - launching all new solutions
• Started and scaled HANA ecosystem, ex-McKinsey, ex-Sun.
• Scaled EIM (data business) from $200Mto$500M
• Co-founder of YetiData, world’s first CDP
• 2 AI patents, Berkeley Haas Alumni Board

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Claire Nouet

COO

• Initiated and closed deals with the most strategic accounts, like NATO
• Optimizing operational efficiency, including funding and resource allocation.
• Ensuring delivery at unprecedented speed and quality

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Other team members include red elo-rated competitive programmers

• Sergey Kulik - IOI gold medalist
• Michał Bartoszkiewicz - infrastructure guru, scaled and exited a 10M daily user social network.

As well as numerous ex-Googlers, ex-Meta, researchers from the world’s leading Computer Science labs, top competitive programmers, with a total of 8 nationalities currently represented at Pathway.

Supported by

Lukasz Kaiser

Co-inventor of Transformers, main researcher behind the GPT o1 breakthrough the very first backer of Pathway.