Cezary Pietrasik is co-owner of Synerise, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company specializing in predicting human behavior. He is passionate about social systems. He has analyzed structures—from economies to institutions—in each of the seven countries he has lived in and over 80 he has visited.

Cezary began his career at McKinsey and then joined the investment banking team at J.P. Morgan. He later became a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and founded Healthdom, a preventative healthcare company in San Francisco. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Warsaw School of Economics, and the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Cezary was named the Best Economics Student in Poland. He is also the founder and president of The Butterfly Effect Foundation, which helps children in underserved rural areas. In his free time, he enjoys swimming and horseback riding.