Giorgos Zacharia

Giorgos Zacharia is the co-founder and co-CEO of Insurify, an AI-driven digital insurance agency in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He spent 17 years at KAYAK in roles including President, CTO, Chief Product Officer and Chief Scientist, through its IPO and international expansion. Earlier he co-founded the machine-learning-driven hedge funds Stocknomics Ltd. and Emporics Capital Management LLC, and co-founded Open Ratings, Inc. He holds four MIT degrees, including a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and represented Cyprus at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1990 and 1992.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Insurify's own leadership bio, KAYAK-era CXO Talk/Medium author bios, and Crunchbase all state that Giorgos Zacharia co-founded two machine-learning-driven hedge funds, Stocknomics Ltd. and Emporics Capital Management LLC. Emporics' own website describes it as a fund management firm that 'develops and uses proprietary quantitative trading models' and 'trade[s] robotically and exclusively in highly liquid, publicly-traded securities', confirming it operates in quantitative/systematic trading rather than merely carrying a 'quant' name. His role is listed as Founder/Managing Partner at Emporics Capital Management (2002-2013). Identity is supported by cross-linked MIT education, KAYAK and Insurify roles, and the Cyprus IMO record. Student programs are not the basis of this finding; the basis is an actual founder/partner role at a proprietary systematic-trading fund.Mar 4, 2025
• Joined Insurify's leadership as co-CEO in March 2025 (announced 2025-03-04), running the company alongside co-CEO Snejina Zacharia and focusing on innovation and marketing; he had been an Insurify co-founder and board member since 2013.Mar 4, 2025
• Spent 17 years at KAYAK, serving as President, CTO, Chief Product Officer and Chief Scientist, and led the company through its IPO, multiple acquisitions and international expansion.Mar 4, 2025
• Emporics Capital Management is itself the employer-classification evidence: its site states it is a fund management firm using proprietary quantitative trading models, drawing on partners' backgrounds in finance, mathematics, computer science and machine learning, to trade liquid public securities robotically.
• Beyond Emporics, his second hedge-fund co-founding is Stocknomics Ltd., also described in KAYAK-era and Crunchbase bios as a machine-learning-driven hedge fund, placing two early systematic/ML investment vehicles in his pre-KAYAK career.
• Since 2025 he is a member of Cyprus' national AI Task Force, advising the government on responsible AI adoption - a current public-affairs role alongside his Insurify work (index/LinkedIn-sourced).Jan 1, 2025
• Insurify's leadership page frames his pre-KAYAK path as applying machine learning to finance, citing CTO roles at OpenTable and co-founding Open Ratings, and names four MIT degrees including a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science.
• 2016 Phocuswright Conference speaker listed as KAYAK Chief Product Officer, with a bio noting four MIT degrees (Computer Science, Media Arts and Mathematics, including a PhD) and study at MIT on a Fulbright scholarship.Nov 1, 2016
• Education (per index/LinkedIn enrichment - index-only, not primary-source confirmed): PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2009), MS Media Arts and Sciences, and two BS degrees (Computer Science with Economics minor; Mathematics), all MIT.
• Holds several current board/advisory seats: Independent Board Member at insurtechs Hellas Direct and battleface, and Board Member at the Hellenic Innovation Network (index/LinkedIn-sourced).
• Describes himself as an independent angel investor and startup advisor since 2006 across AI, e-commerce, adtech, fintech and consumer internet; third-party profiles list portfolio names including Avocarrot, Urx, Rateelert, Drafted, Wappier and Wombo (aggregator-sourced, not primary confirmation).
• Represented Cyprus at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1990 and 1992; a KAYAK-era bio states he won five medals in international olympiads, though the exact allocation across competitions is not confirmed by a primary IMO results page in this run.