Aidan Helmbold
Senior Vice President, Innovation
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAidan Helmbold is a senior innovation leader and data scientist with eight years of experience applying AI and analytics across financial services, telecommunications, and utilities. He has progressed from actuarial and investment strategy roles into founding and leading data and AI ventures, most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Innovation at Sand Technologies after CTO and business-unit leadership at ExploreAI. Aidan blends rigorous risk-management and actuarial training from the University of Cape Town with hands-on product and technical stewardship, turning research-grade models into operational solutions for enterprise clients. He is comfortable at the intersection of strategy, technology and commercialisation, having co-founded Explore Data Science Academy to grow applied AI talent. Based in the Western Cape, he brings a pragmatic innovation mindset that emphasizes measurable business impact and scalable deployment rather than purely experimental prototypes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Science, Actuarial Science and Finance, Bachelor of Business Science, Actuarial Science and Finance at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (4)
planning7
jupyter-notebook4
python3
jupyter3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aidan-explore/supply-demand
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
App for doing supply demand planning
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 8 months
planningsupplydemand
Explore-AI/supply-demand
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
App for doing supply demand planning
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
planningsupplydemand
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