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 2 months)

• Entrepreneur-In-Residence

  Venture Lab, Georgia Tech

  (Educational Institution; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  I worked with entrepreneurs and technologies from Georgia Tech that have been deemed commercializable by the Office of Technology Licensing. My primary role was to develop business strategy, identify potential market opportunities, and seek potential partners and co-founders.

• Founding CEO

  OMT Energy LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  OMT Energy offers products and services that enable modular, decentralized biodiesel production from food industry waste products. As a co-founder, I helped develop the initial go-to-market strategy, and built the initial founding team to enable growth beyond the initial prototype production unit located in Ellenwood, GA.

• Assistant to Chief Scientist

  Yahoo! Search Marketing

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; YHOO; Computer Software 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; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years)

  Co-founded the company and helped write the business plan that garnered 2nd place at the 2000 $50k business plan competition at MIT. Oversaw the fundraising process that led to an investment by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers with Vinod Khosla presiding as chairman of the board. Led the initial hiring and development process while engaged in research that helped move the company closer to its current direction. Filed patents for IP in areas related to Centrata's business model. Played a role gathering initial requirements for the company's flagship product, as well as producing whitepapers for future technology directions. Centrata now has over 80 employees and earns over $15 million in annual revenue.

• 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)

  Appeared in numerous stage productions and commercials in the metropolitan Atlanta area. 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