David Ratajczak

Current

• Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group

Past

• Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Venture Lab, Georgia Tech
• Founding CEO at OMT Energy LLC
• Assistant to Chief Scientist at Yahoo! Search Marketing

• CTO and Co-Founder at Centrata, Inc.
• Research Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab
• Security Software Engineer at SAP AG
• Actor at Alliance Theater

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Education

• INSEAD
• University of California, Berkeley
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Management Consulting

David Ratajczak’s Summary

I work with world-class, highly-motivated teammates on ideas that effect a positive, significant, and lasting economic impact.

David Ratajczak’s Experience

• Consultant

  The Boston Consulting Group

  (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; BCG; Management Consulting industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

• Entrepreneur-In-Residence

  Venture Lab, Georgia Tech

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  I worked with entrepreneurs and technologies from Georgia Tech. My primary role was to develop business strategy, identify potential market opportunities, and seek potential partners and co-founders.

• Founding CEO

  OMT Energy LLC

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  OMT Energy offered products and services that enabled modular, decentralized biodiesel production from food industry waste products. As a co-founder, I helped develop the initial go-to-market strategy.

• Assistant to Chief Scientist

  Yahoo! Search Marketing

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  I assisted the Chief Scientist on both theoretical and practical issues relating to the Sponsored Search (SS) product ("Panama"). I helped oversee an internal RFP for the next generation of the SS product and submitted a joint proposal with the Chief Scientist that formed the basis of the chosen plan. I proposed and architected improvements to make the dynamic pricing scheme more efficient, and to better leverage demographic and geographic information in SS to substantially increase revenue by greater than 10%.

• CTO and Co-Founder

  Centrata, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years)

  I co-founded the company and helped write the business plan that garnered 2nd place at the 2000 $50k business plan competition at MIT. I oversaw the fundraising process that led to an investment by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers with Vinod Khosla presiding as chairman of the board. I led the initial hiring and development process while engaged in research that helped move the company closer to profitability. I filed patents for IP in areas related to Centrata's business model. I played a role gathering initial requirements for the company's flagship product, as well as producing whitepapers for future technology directions.

• Research Intern

  Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  1995 — 1999 (4 years)

  As a summer intern for 4 summers, I worked on projects ranging from real-time device drivers for a haptic feedback device, to optimized algorithms for capacitated vehicle routing.

• Security Software Engineer

  SAP AG

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1998 — September 1998 (5 months)

  As an intern with the MIT-Germany program, I worked at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany in the Software Security division. I drafted a corporate strategy for the adoption of the Java 2.0 security framework, and developed an encryption protocol for the next generation of ABAP.

• Actor

  Alliance Theater

  (Entertainment industry)

  1986 — 1995 (9 years)

  I appeared in numerous stage productions and commercials in the metropolitan Atlanta area. I also appeared in the major motion picture, Pet Sematary II, as "Stevie".

David Ratajczak’s Education

• INSEAD

  MBA , 2005 — 2006

• University of California, Berkeley

  M.S. and Ph.D candidate , Computer Science (Theory) , 2002 — 2005

  C. H. Papadimitriou, D. Ratajczak, "On a Conjecture Related to Geometric Routing", ALGOSENSORS, 2004.
  
  D. Ratajczak, J. M. Hellerstein, “Deconstructing DHTs”, Technical Report Intel Research Labs IRB-TR-03-042, 2003.
  
  P. B. Godfrey, D. Ratajczak. "Naps: Scalable, Robust Topology Management in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. IPSN, 2004.
  
  D. Malkhi, M. Naor, D. Ratajczak, "Viceroy: A Scalable and Dynamic Emulation of the Butterfly", PODC, 2002.
  
  N. Lynch, D. Malkhi, D. Ratajczak, “Atomic Data Access in Distributed Hash Tables”, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Hot series, Peer-to-Peer Systems, LNCS 2429, p. 295.
  
  N. Lynch, D. Malkhi, D. Ratajczak, "Atomic Data Access in Content Addressable Networks", International Peer-to-Peer Symposium, 2002.
  
  D. Anderson, E. Anderson, N. Lesh, J. Marks, B. Mirtich, D. Ratajczak, K. Ryall, “Human-Guided Simple Search”, AAAI/IAAI, Austin, TX, 2000.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  B.S , Mathematics, Computer Science , 1996 — 2000