Ash Booth is an entrepreneur, data scientist and machine learning researcher.Before heading up the artificial intelligence team of HSBC’s Corporate and Institutional Digital programme, he worked a number of contract roles as a machine learning and data science consultant at various hedge funds and investment firms.Beginning his academic endeavours with a BSc in Biomedical Science, Ash soon transitioned through bio-inspired computing to computer science and, aged 21, began his PhD in the Application of Machine Learning to Algorithmic Trade Execution at the University of Southampton.