Meet the Insaas Team

Dr. Korbinian Spann

Founder, Managing Director & Head of Data
Korbinian is a recognized expert in languages, digital marketing and data science. In 2016, Korbinian developed the idea of Insaas and successfully built a first POC to make customer voices accessible for marketing.

After many years as a digital marketing and eCommerce manager for companies and agencies, he decided in April 2018 to work independently and realize the idea of a software that allows marketing experts to implement Customer Centricity in their company. In March 2019, he founded the startup Insaas in Munich with Karan Singh and Josef Koloncsak.

Karan Singh

Founder & Incubation
Karan is a tech entrepreneur in the digital age. During his 24 years of work experience, he has worked with global companies such as IBM, Accenture and L & T Infotech in Europe.

Karan has solid experience and numerous achievements in building technology centers of excellence and solutions for new age data monetization and business models. He has designed and implemented AI-based applications at the enterprise level.

Markus Iwanczok

Head of Product
Markus has more than 20 years of experience in IT and Data Science as a founder, expert and senior manager. The focus of his expertise is on data and behavioral science. He has worked at GfK for more than 12 years with a focus on digital products for the global market.

Markus is passionate about data-driven products and technologies and will be responsible for the product roadmap at Insaas.

Rahul Deshpande

Technology Advisor
Rahul is a "Tech Evangelist" with 20 years of experience in innovation and product development. To date, Rahul has worked in 4 different startups as a technology expert and CTO. He has deep experience in B2B and B2C space and developed various B2C portals. He also published whitepapers on Social Media and Big Data on product innovation.

Lisa Apfelbaum

Management Assistant & Controlling
Lisa looks back on more than 10 years of experience in the world of finance and business administration. She has been employed in a large international company as well as in small and medium-sized enterprises and has thus constantly expanded her wealth of knowledge.

With a Bachelor's degree in International Management she completes her profile and supports our management as an assistant in all areas.

Denis Brediceanu

Lead Product Owner
Denis is a generalist with many years of experience in online marketing, front-end development and product management. However, due to the fast-paced atmosphere and multidisciplinary tasks, he feels most comfortable in startups.

At Insaas, he is responsible for product development and managing the development team.

Sebastian Daue

Strategic Account Director
Sebastian is passionate about sales. He has gained sales experience in many different positions at companies such as Adidas, W.L. Gore & Associates GmbH and Mammut Sports Group. His focus has always been on eCommerce. His expertise includes the implementation and presentation of marketing concepts as well as the creation of sales concepts.

At Insaas he is responsible for the development of the customer portfolio. He is your contact person if you are interested in our product.

Dara Dehghan

Principal Data Scientist
Dara is a computer science and applied mathematics graduate with two decades of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data science and leadership of talented teams. He has worked in market research for the past decade with a focus on high-volume, high-velocity, data-intensive solutions for global digital markets.

Dara leads the data science and machine learning teams at Insaas and is responsible for reliable delivery of actionable insights using the state of the art of deep learning models in NLP to revolutionize how Insaas clients make business decisions.

Pankaj Gupta, PhD

Chief Scientific Advisor
Pankaj Gupta holds a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on Deep Learning and NLP. He spent six years at Siemens, including the role of Lead Research Scientist, working on more than 15 patents and 20 publications in leading scientific institutions.

Pankaj is our lead advisor for technology and science. Together with Pankaj, we will work on NLP and Knowledge Graph technologies to analyze unstructured customer feedback.

Sowmya Prakash

NLP Engineer
Sowmya is a data scientist and software developer. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Data and Knowledge Engineering at OVGU, Magdeburg. Sowmya specializes in scenarios where Machine Learning and NLP is required. She has worked at Accenture India and Daiichi Sankyo Europe Gmbh in the past.

Her focus at Insaas is on NLP pipeline processing and algorithm development and optimization.

Rolf Schmiedke

Head of Sales
Rolf has over 28 years of professional experience working in Europe, the USA and Asia-Pacific in Technical, Sales, Marketing and Business Development positions in the Information Technology industry (enterprise Software, SaaS, RPA, AI, Customer Experience, CRM Marketing Solutions, CTI, RFID & NFC technology).

Rolf has proven experience in scaling businesses either in pre-IPO/start-up settings or in establishing regional divisions of global organizations. His entrepreneurial spirit and success oriented attitude attends to his work.