Andreas Zaras has been occupied in the fields of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for more than twenty years. He is a graduate of the department of Operational Research and Marketing, Athens University of Economics and Business and also holds an MSc in Management Science and Operational Research from Warwick Business School. Moreover he holds an MSc in Finance with emphasis in Econometrics from Alba Graduate Business School. He has participated as a consultant in projects related to data exploitation for business decision making in sub areas such as Data Integration, Data Quality, Business Intelligence and Business Analytics - Artificial Intelligence. He has also taught postgraduate courses about Decision Making, Marketing Analytics, Credit Risk Analytics, Business Forecasting, Demand Management, Traditional Statistics, Data Management, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Alba Graduate Business School, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of Patras, Warwick Business School, University of Piraeus, University of Central Lancashire - Cyprus Campus, Cyprus International Institute of Management and American College of Greece - Deree. His research work in Operational Research - Artificial Intelligence, Econometrics, and Business Intelligence - Business Analytics has appeared in the proceedings of conferences of the Hellenic Operational Research Society. Moreover, he is a member of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences and the Hellenic Operational Research Society, he is a certified SAS Programmer, highly skilled in SQL, Python and VBA. Finally he has received awards for teaching excellence from the Athens University of Economics and Business and for academic excellence from Alba Graduate Business School.