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AiQL has two founders. Before AiQL, their work spanned two continents: 17 years of healthcare AI leadership, and a graph platform processing more than a billion nodes a day. Domain and technical experts are listed under Experts.

Syed Zaffer

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Syed Zaffer

Co-founder and chief executive officer

Previously

Built and led PwC Middle East’s Healthcare AI Practice. That work covered national governments and regulators, insurers, and health systems.PwC Middle East, Endeavor Health, and University of Chicago Medicine

17+ years

Healthcare AI

$15M+

Cost savings delivered

75+

Deployments across two continents

Maxim Gladkov

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Maxim Gladkov

Co-founder and chief technology officer

Previously

Built knowledge graph systems and AI in production at enterprise scale. At Pfizer, designed Neo4j knowledge graphs and agentic retrieval used by more than 500 people. At GoDaddy, built an email rendering engine that sends millions of messages a day. At Gartner, led a high-scale platform migration to Rails. Earlier, as CTO of Blondie, designed a graph platform that stores and processes billions of nodes daily.Pfizer, Gartner, GoDaddy, and Blondie

12+ years

Building systems

1B+

Graph nodes processed daily

10M+

Operations powered daily

Before AiQL

The founders also worked with a $165M US state health marketplace, and with national health ministries and regulators in the Gulf.