Our team

Senior practitioners. No pyramid.

Every PALOi Advisors, LLC engagement is led and delivered by people who've shipped production systems at scale. You get the partner you meet in the pitch — every week.

Alex Mercer

Managing Partner

Former Head of Data Platform at a top-10 European insurer. 18 years in data engineering and AI strategy.

Priya Anand

Partner, AI Practice

ML researcher turned operator. Led GenAI product launches at two unicorns. PhD in applied machine learning.

Marcus Halberg

Partner, Data Platform

Architect of three production lakehouses serving 50M+ users. Databricks and Snowflake certified.

Sofia Rinaldi

Director, Software Partnerships

15 years in enterprise software procurement and vendor management. Negotiated nine-figure contracts across the cloud and data ecosystem.

Daniel Okafor

Principal Engineer

Full-stack data engineer specializing in real-time pipelines and MLOps. Open-source contributor to dbt and Airflow.

Hannah Berg

Principal Consultant, Strategy

Ex-McKinsey, ex-product. Bridges executive vision and engineering reality. Specialist in operating model design.

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If you're a senior data engineer, ML practitioner or AI strategist who wants to deliver real systems with peers who get it, get in touch.

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