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About Code Ocean

We’re living in the era of Computational Science

Computational Scientists are at the epicenter of breakthrough life science research today. We help them do their work.

Bioinformatics is more important than ever

Three trends make Computational Scientists some of the most important people working in Life Science R&D today.

Data Management Colour@8x Massive data A massive and increasing flow of heterogenous data from labs and public databases.
Cloud Compute@8x Cheap compute An abundance of relatively cheap cloud storage and compute, primarily driven by AWS.
Machine Learning Colour@8x AI/ML acceleration A significant acceleration of developments in data science, AI, and machine learning.

But it’s still a huge challenge to work in this discipline:

$ 28 B
Spent on non-reproducible preclinical research every year
74 %
Of publicly-available R files fail to run without errors
96.8 %
Of Jupyter notebooks aren’t reproducible as documented
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That’s why we’ve built the industry standard for computational Life Science R&D

Compute Scalability@8x Easy to provision and scale in the cloud Launching something in the cloud is difficult and frustrating if you don't know how, or if you don't have the support. It should be easy to start and scale.
Collaboration@8x Simple to work together with peers

It should be easy for computational teams to work together. Nobody should need to say or hear "but it works on my machine" ever again. 

Reproducibility@8x Fully reproducible, traceable, and reusable

Reproducibility and traceability is vital for progress. It's also important for quality assurance, publications, mergers and acquisitions, and the FDA...

Data Architecture@8x Avoids tech debt, improves architecture

Inconsistency in environments, data, and versions compound over time. It should be much easier to have solid data architecture without slowing down.

Our mission is to champion the Computational Scientist

The people working at the intersection of data, science, and mathematics are already making incredible breakthroughs. We're here to help them make even more.

Read our origin story

The Code Ocean Leadership team

Simon Adar

Co-founder and CEO

Simon Adar

Co-founder and CEO

Simon Adar

Simon is the co-founder and CEO of Code Ocean. He is a researcher turned entrepreneur who founded Code Ocean as part of his postdoc at Cornell-Tech, Cornell University. His background is in signal and image processing, hyperspectral imaging, and spectroscopy. During his PhD, Simon worked with the German Space Agency (DLR) and other research institutions around Europe. Simon is passionate about research, scientific innovation, and cloud computing.

Ram Dayan

Co-founder and CTO

Ram Dayan

Co-founder and CTO

Ram Dayan

Ram is the co-founder and CTO of Code Ocean. Together with a founding team, Ram built the Code Ocean platform using cutting-edge technologies, bringing his 30+ years of programming experience from diverse industry fields. Prior to Code Ocean, he led software development at Picitup, developing various image processing applications, and at iOnRoad, where he developed an augmented driving mobile app, later acquired by Harman International.

Tarek Elhage

VP Finance & Strategy

Tarek Elhage

VP Finance & Strategy

Tarek Elhage

Tarek oversees all aspects of corporate development, financial reporting, forecasting/budgeting, accounting, fundraising, and investor relations. He brings 10+ years of experience in M&A, fundraising, FP&A, and strategy. Prior to Code Ocean, Tarek worked in investment banking at JP Morgan, before working in early to late-stage startups.

Shahar Frumkin

VP Customer Success

Shahar Frumkin

VP Customer Success

Shahar Frumkin

Shahar is responsible for leading Code Ocean’s customer success team. He brings 15+ years of experience in customer success, professional services, and operations. Before Code Ocean, Shahar worked at Profitect, Inc. where he scaled the customer success team from the ground up. Following their acquisition by Zebra Technologies, Shahar designed and implemented processes across the global organization’s customer base.

Erez Giladi

VP Research & Development

Erez Giladi

VP Research & Development

Erez Giladi

Erez oversees all aspects of the company’s engineering operations from end-to-end product development to customer support. Prior to Code Ocean, Erez was Director of Engineering at WalkMe, running their web experience business unit. Before that, Erez was a team leader at TradeTech (division of PlayTech) and part of the original team at Crossrider where his contributions led to the rapid growth of the company’s revenue and IPO (ROSS:AIM).

Edita Vatenaite

VP Marketing

Edita Vatenaite

VP Marketing

Edita Vatenaite

Edita Vatenaite brings extensive experience in marketing deep tech software to the scientific community from her previous role at Synthace where she championed innovation in lab automation. Prior to Synthace, she led product marketing at Ansys, an engineering simulation software company. With over 15 years of experience in B2B marketing, her expertise spans demand generation, brand development, PR, content, and digital strategy.

Daniel Koster

VP Product

Daniel Koster

VP Product

Daniel Koster

Daniel oversees product strategy, internal interfaces, and client-facing activities. Previous achievements include the development of a deep learning platform for plant trait phenotyping and patented software for early detection of disease symptoms in plants. He has two articles published on the cover of the esteemed journal Nature and over 1,200 citations. Daniel holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Jaime Stern

VP Sales

Jaime Stern

VP Sales

Jaime Stern

Jaime has extensive experience leading high-performing teams across sales and operations departments. His background ranges from early-stage startups to multinational public corporations, as well as government and NGOs. Jaime has grown revenue across various industries including Healthcare, Education, Pharma, Medical Imaging, Micro-Finance, SaaS, and Mobile Technology. His experience spans revenue and strategic planning, operational analysis, leadership coaching, discovering new sales and marketing channels, and establishing exceptional customer service standards.

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