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Meet Our Leadership Team

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Amit Akhelikar
Chief Executive Officer

Amit Akhelikar is the Chief Executive Officer of Lynx Analytics, where he is leading the firm’s strategic expansion from bespoke analytics into a suite of scalable, capability-led AI solutions. He works closely with pharmaceutical and healthcare leaders to deploy AI-driven frameworks that stimulate revenue growth, optimize omnichannel engagement, and enhance commercial effectiveness.

With deep expertise at the intersection of advanced analytics, Generative AI, and enterprise transformation, Amit helps global enterprises accelerate commercial decision-making with the precision of high-end consulting and the speed of modern AI. While bringing significant depth in life sciences, his experience across retail, telecommunications, and consumer finance shapes Lynx’s distinctive cross-industry approach to AI innovation.

Prior to Lynx, Amit held leadership roles at Vodafone and Barclays, driving large-scale digital and AI-enabled commercial transformations across the UK and Singapore. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

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Gabor Benedek
Chief Innovation Officer & Co-founder

Gabor is responsible for defining the methodological roadmap of Lynx’s predictive analytics consulting and product development departments. He leads the internal data science team and supports the business development.

Gabor has been the co-founder of several other AI start-ups in Healthcare, Finance, Crypto, Telecom and Space Industries, contributing with creative application of state-of-the-art data science models.

He received his PhD in 2003, worked as an Associate Professor at Budapest Corvinus University, author of one book and many scientific papers.

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Gabor Benedek, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer & Co-founder

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Ankit Agrawal
Lead Business Consultant

Ankit leads Life Sciences initiatives at Lynx Analytics, drawing from a decade-long career in business and management consulting. His academic background includes an MBA from Nanyang Business School and a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. With experience at ZS Associates and The Economist Intelligence Healthcare, Ankit has been part of multiple life sciences project engagements as both an advisor and a hands-on analyst. These projects have spanned the globe, providing him with extensive experience in the US, EU5, and APAC markets. He has collaborated with multiple Big Pharma and MedTech giants, focusing on enabling commercial outcomes using a data-driven approach.

At Lynx, Ankit leverages his life sciences industry experience to support clients through complex challenges, offering tailored solutions that drive tangible business outcomes.

 
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Ankit Agrawal
Director of Client Engagement

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Chema Lizano
Chief Technology Officer

Chema leads the technology strategy and roadmap at Lynx Analytics. He oversees the vision, development, and implementation of our solutions across different clients and environments.

Prior to Lynx Analytics, Chema was responsible for delivering projects in a wide set of environments, ranging from on premise to cloud deployments. Across all these projects he led & coordinated teams that involved diverse profiles to build robust & scalable solutions.

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Chema Lizano
Lead Solution Architect

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Marton Szel
Director of Data Science

As the Director of Data Science at Lynx, Marton ensures the quality of our solutions by sharing his extensive domain and methodological knowledge with the team.

With 15 years of experience as a data scientist across the Pharma, Finance, Biotech, Telco, and Retail sectors, Marton has worked in seven countries across Asia and Europe, bringing a rich perspective on global data challenges.

In recent years, he has focused on graph AI-based reasoning and applied generative AI projects, leveraging his deep learning expertise.

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Francois de Repentigny
VP of Marketing & Product

Francois is responsible for generating awareness and demand for Lynx Analytics solutions, whether they are delivered as packaged products or consulting engagements. He loves to showcase the details and incredible value Lynx Analytics is delivering to its customers across different industries.

Francois is a B2B Marketing specialist with a long career in the ICT sector. He has worked for extensive periods of time in North America, Europe and Asia. He likes to put in place the necessary structure to drive short- and long-term growth for start-up companies.

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Francois de Repentigny
VP of Marketing

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Li Lee
Finance Director

Li oversees the whole finance spectrum at Lynx Analytics. The dynamic environment, exposure to investors, and continuous innovation requirements are aspects of the job she particularly enjoys. Li likes to find solutions to new business needs and to implement automated internal controls & procedures to support the company’s growth.

Li is a financial professional with more than 15 years of experience in financial accounting & reporting and finance-related matters.  Before joining Lynx, she held different Finance positions at accounting & audit firms as well as MNCs in various sectors.