Alex Combessie 🐢

Co-Founder @ Giskard | Security for AI, Agent Evaluation

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Alex Combessie is co-founder & co-CEO of Giskard, a testing & protection platform for AI agents. Giskard helps AI and security teams red-team & blue-team their agents against prompt injection, jailbreaks, hallucinations and PII leaks, build domain-specific evals, and run context-aware AI guardrails at inference time. Founded in Paris in 2021 with Jean-Marie John-Mathews (PhD), Giskard used by some of Europe's most regulated enterprises, including AXA, BNP Paribas, Irish Life and Doctolib, to control the operational risks of their GenAI agents. Before Giskard, Alex spent 5 years at Dataiku working on mission-critical AI deployments for large European enterprises. That's where he experienced, up close as a Data Scientist and AI engineer, how AI systems tends to break once it leaves the notebook: silent regressions, hidden security vulnerabilities evals that miss the failures users actually trigger, AI that look fine in development and fall apart in production. This is why he founded Giskard: to ensuring companies can deploy AI with trust.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & co-CEO at Giskard
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    - Building the holistic Testing platform for AI systems - From 0 to 1

  • Investor at Time for the Planet
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

    Time for the Planet is a company which goal is to gather 1 billion euros in order to deploy 100 innovations fighting against global warming. It is possible to become a shareholder starting with one euro invested. We are the last generation being able to avoid a climate collapse. Let's act together! If you want to know how to get involved, it's here: https://www.time-planet.com/

  • Dataiku (5 yrs)
    • Machine Learning Engineer
      Mar 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

      - Led development of open-source NLP & Time-Series features of Dataiku DSS

    • Data Science Lead - EMEA
      Feb 2018 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      - Managed team of 5 data scientists & engineers - Ran pre-sales & post-sales consulting engagements with Dataiku EMEA customers

    • Data Scientist - France
      Oct 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Strategy Consultant at Capgemini Consulting
    Mar 2014 - Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    - Conducted multiple missions of Big Data & Analytics strategy - Involved in the creation of the Data Science team

  • Business Development Analyst at Xtreme Labs (acquired by Pivotal)
    Apr 2013 - Aug 2013 · 5 mos

    Leading mobile app development provider in North America, working with Facebook, Twitter, and MTV - Contributed to the signature of two $1m+ contracts with major TV networks - Developed tools and processes to improve data reporting and prioritize the sales pipeline - Conducted in-depth market research on Connected TV and mobile TV apps