Curriculum vitae
Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri
Founder and Executive Director, Sickle Cell Knowledge and Information Network (SCKIN) · Co-founder, 300 Sports Analytics · formerly Google
New York, NY
ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0003-0558-4455 (opens in a new tab)
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Experience
Co-founder
300 Sports Analytics · New York
– present
Holding company for sports analytics ventures, founded September 2025. MMA Fight Advisor is its first product, and all work to date has been for it.
- AI-native sports analytics applying predictive modeling to live event forecasting. Built a production pipeline on AWS, Apache Airflow, and OpenAI; early performance signals meaningful upside vs. category baselines.
Founder and Executive Director
Sickle Cell Knowledge and Information Network (SCKIN) · New York
– present
Sole founder. Incorporated 1 November 2024 as a 501(c)(3); the first SickleCellPedia prototype predates incorporation by some months.
- Engineered SickleCellPedia, a RAG-based clinical LLM grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature and official health agency guidance, with 12+ layered safety guardrails and human-in-the-loop review to mitigate medical hallucinations in patient-facing interactions.
- Built and lead a nine-person executive board spanning clinical, finance, partnerships, public policy, and development roles.Built and lead a 9-person executive board including Prof. Lewis Hsu (Medical Director, leading SCD researcher), Finance Director, Partnerships Director, Director of Public Policy, Director of Development, and at-large members across clinical and policy domains.
- Defined the diffusion strategy for SickleCellPedia across patient communities, clinical channels, and pharmaceutical partnerships.
Senior Product Manager, Ads Understanding (Core Signals) — SAAG
Google · New York
– · Promoted March 2025
- Led development of SAAG (Safety Aware Ads Gemini), Google's foundational LLM for Ads Safety. Won the 2024 Ads Tech Impact Award.
- Drove SAAG adoption across launches and product teams in Ads, YouTube, and Trust & Safety.Drove SAAG adoption across 21 launches and 12 product teams in Ads, YouTube, and Trust & Safety.
- Reduced unsafe impressions by billions per week and recovered more than a hundred million dollars in annual recurring revenue through automated classification and policy understanding.Reduced 3B+ unsafe impressions per week and recovered $125M in ARR through automated classification and policy understanding.
- Owned the SAAG roadmap and partnered with Google Research on client feedback; expanded model accessibility through internal tuning and prompt platforms used across product teams.Owned the SAAG roadmap; partnered with Google Research on client feedback. Expanded model accessibility via internal platforms (TuneLab, PromptWizard, Model Factory) used by 12+ product teams.
Product Manager (Bungee), Ads Understanding — EWOQ
Google · New York
– · Rotational secondment
- Drove eight-figure cost savings by implementing LLMs for data labeling at EWOQ; defined LLM rater milestones and migration roadmap.Drove $10M+ in cost savings by implementing LLMs for data labeling at EWOQ; defined LLM rater milestones and migration roadmap.
Product Manager (Rotator), Ads Safety — Honest Ads
Google · New York
– · Rotational secondment
- Built an Ads Safety Risk Framework to prioritize investments against trust risk, public exposure, and regulatory action.
Finance Manager, Horizontal Ads Products
Google · Mountain View
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- Led FP&A across four Ads product area groups — thousands of engineers and product managers, hundreds of millions of dollars in annual discretionary spend. Built a funding governance model ensuring self-funding for Ads Privacy & Safety; reclassified 30% of budget to align with customer needs.Led FP&A across 4 Ads Product Area Groups (~2,500 EngPM HC, ~$250M annual discretionary spend). Built a funding governance model ensuring self-funding for Ads Privacy & Safety; reclassified 30% of budget to align with customer needs.
Senior Financial Analyst, Ads Privacy & Safety
Google · Mountain View
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- Planned and forecasted hundreds of millions of dollars of OpEx across Ads Integrity, Spam, Human Eval, Privacy, and Magnolia teams.Planned and forecasted $208M OpEx across Ads Integrity, Spam, Human Eval, Privacy, and Magnolia teams.
Senior Financial Analyst, Sponsored Products
Amazon Advertising · Seattle
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- ARIMA-based revenue forecasting across 10 marketplaces.
Senior Financial Analyst, 3rd Party Sellers FP&A
Amazon · Seattle
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Senior Business Analyst
A3 Ventures (AAA) · Oakland
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Employee #2 at AAA's internal corporate venture arm. Built the business cases and financial models for the ventures before they were funded, staffed, and launched as separate entities under the AAA umbrella.
- Founding member of three launches: CarConnect, GlassHouse, and GiG CarShare.
- Modelled portfolio investments including RapidSOS and SafeSecurity.
Client Engagement Business Analyst
AON UK Limited · London
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Wholesale Banking Associate Rotation
TD Securities · Toronto
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Four rotations, in sequence:
- Associate Risk Analyst, Domestic Fixed Income Team –
- Associate Risk Analyst, Trading Risk Services, VaR Reporting Team –
- Associate Project Analyst, Program Management Office –
- Portfolio of 14 projects, $150M+ budget, ~30 project managers and business analysts; projects ranging from C$0.5M to C$20M.
- Associate Trade Support Group Analyst –
Bilingual Investment Representative
TD Waterhouse · Markham
–
- Gathered $4M in assets in one year against a $1.5M target.
Bilingual Customer Service Representative, Dispute Contact Centre (Visa chargeback disputes)
CIBC · Toronto
–
Demeter
A blockchain-based platform for Niger designed to establish trust in property titles. It utilizes biometrics and GPS to combat fraud, secure ownership, facilitate credit, and unlock tax revenue for societal development. We had secured a MOU from Niger, until a coup derailed our implementation.
Co-founder
Brother's Bank
A mobile banking application co-founded to address financial exclusion in Nigeria, enabling low-cost, secure transfers and payments, yielding significant economic benefits and reducing fraud risk. We have a working prototype but did not receive the funding to scale.
Leadership & governance
Executive Board
Sickle Cell Knowledge and Information Network (SCKIN) · New York
– present
- Built and lead the nine-person executive board spanning clinical, finance, partnerships, public policy, and development roles.Built and lead the 9-person executive board: Prof. Lewis Hsu (Medical Director), Finance Director, Partnerships Director, Director of Public Policy, Director of Development, and at-large members across clinical and policy domains.
President and Chair of the Board
Sickle Cell Association of Ontario · Toronto
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Elected at a board meeting.
- Increased the SCAO's revenue by 40% to $70K annually, repaid debt, and increased the cost effectiveness of events.
- Supervised nine science students to search and synthesize information for sickle cell patients.
- During the tenure, one of the association's volunteers with 30 years of experience was awarded the Order of Ontario.
Director
Sickle Cell Association of Ontario · Toronto
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Employee Experience Workgroup
TD Waterhouse Markham ISC · Markham
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Selected publications
Five of the items on the publications page; the full record, with per-work pages and PDFs, is there.
Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri. “A specialized AI agent for sickle cell patient education in low-resource settings: a benchmarking evaluation.” Paper no. 226, Annual Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Conference (ASCAT), Central Hall Westminster, London, .
Forthcoming · Presented October 2026.
Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri and Corinne Mbebi-Liégeois. “L'intelligence artificielle peut révolutionner la lutte contre la drépanocytose.” New Globinoscope, no. 11 (): 22–23.
Kiari Liman-Tinguiri and Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri. “Reforming the Financing of Multilateral Development Aid in the Sahel: Towards a More Targeted and Effective Approach.” Development Cooperation Review 7, no. 3–4 (): 11–19.
Kiari Liman-Tinguiri and Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri. “« L'inertie du franc CFA empêche chaque pays d'être réactif en cas de choc économique ».” Le Monde Afrique, .
Zacharie Liman-Tinguiri and John Legakis. “La « malédiction des ressources » et la croissance : l'expérience de l'Afrique sub-saharienne.” [Resource curse and growth: The experience of Sub-Saharan Africa] Perspective Afrique 6, no. 1–3 (): 1–17.
Speaking & convenings
Can AI Be Trusted for Sickle Cell Disease Education? Introducing SickleCellPedia
SCD Coalition Peer Learning Exchange (webinar)
Presentation, with Lewis Thomas.
Drepanopedia, artificial intelligence for Sickle Cell Disease
Filière de santé FilRougE-MCGRE
Video presentation.
Drepanopedia
19ᵉ Journée de la Filière MCGRE
Presentation at the Filière's annual meeting.
The Resource Curse in Perspective
44th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Quebec City
Paper no. 771, accepted for presentation; the Master's thesis.
Education
Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate
Harvard Extension School, Harvard University
Four courses:
- CSCI E-87 Big Data and Machine Learning in Healthcare Applications — grade AFall 2025
- CSCI E-104 Advanced Deep Learning — grade ASpring 2026
- CSCI E-109A Introduction to Data Science — currently enrolledFall 2026
- CSCI E-184 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Governance, and Laws — the final course, plannedSpring 2027
MBA
Johnson at Cornell University · Ithaca
- Angear European Merit Scholarship2014–15, 2015–16
- Vice-President, Capital Markets and Asset Management, Old Ezra Finance Club
- Fellow, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute2016
Master of Arts, Economics
University of Ottawa · Ottawa
Coursework and thesis completed December 2008; conferred at spring convocation, 25 May 2009. Thesis presented at the Canadian Economics Association annual meeting, May 2010.
- Senator (Graduate Student Representative), University of Ottawa Senate –
- Councillor, Graduate Students' Council –
- Research Assistant, African Studies and Research Laboratory –
- Director, Board of Directors, Graduate Students' Association –
- Treasurer, Economics Graduate Students' Association –
- Student Representative, Economics Department Council –
BA Social Sciences, Honours Economics, concentration Political Science
University of Ottawa · Ottawa
Conferred 23 May 2006.
International Baccalaureate Diploma
American Cooperative School of Tunis · Tunis
- High school diplomaJune 2002
Chronological
Licences & professional training
The securities licences were required to practise as a licensed Investment Representative; he completed more than the minimum. Each line states what was earned and when — nothing is claimed as currently held. Read in order, 2017 to 2020 is a three-year retraining: visualization, then SQL, then Python and data science, then machine learning, ending the month he joined Google.
- Canadian Securities Course — Canadian Securities Institute
- Conduct and Practices Handbook Course — Canadian Securities Institute
- Derivatives Fundamentals Course — Canadian Securities Institute
- Options Licensing Course — Canadian Securities Institute
- Commodities as Investments — Canadian Securities Institute
- Derivatives Market Specialist (DMS) — Canadian Securities Institute
- Chartered Insurance Institute certificates — Chartered Insurance Institute
- IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced — IBM
- Fundamentals of Visualization with Tableau — Coursera
- Visual Analytics with Tableau — Coursera
- Essential Design Principles for Tableau — Coursera
- Creating Dashboards and Storytelling with Tableau — Coursera
- SQL for Data Science — Coursera
- Data Visualization with Tableau Specialization — Coursera
- Data Visualization with Tableau Project — Coursera
- Data Scientist with Python — DataCamp
- Machine Learning for Trading Specialization — Coursera
- From Data to Insights with Google Cloud Platform Specialization — Coursera
The next chapter is under Education: the Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate at Harvard Extension School, Harvard University — in progress, expected May 2027.
Languages
- English — fluent
- French — fluent
- Hausa — fluent
- Spanish — elementary