Hello, my name is Marcus!

Dr. Marcus D. R. Klarqvist is an accomplished technical and product leader in the fields of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) and software development, with a background spanning research and product innovation. Holding a Ph.D. in Mathematical Genomics in Medicine from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute he was a founding member of the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) group at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with IBM, working with population-scale medical data. He has contributed to constructing large-scale medical datasets and developing state-of-the-art NLP and computer vision models that led to numerous high-impact publications and patents.

Currently, Dr. Klarqvist provides strategic guidance to startups in fintech, pharma, and biotech through his startup Vintergatan.  He has served as interim CTO/CPO at AI-first startups to translate visionary ideas into actionable plans, leading teams to deliver minimally viable products efficiently, finding product-market-fit, and then scaling.