Daniel O'Donovan

Enthusiast
DISC Type : i

Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Healx

Greater Cambridge Area, United Kingdom

Overview

Daniel ODonovan leads the graph machine learning engineering team at Healx, a Cambridge-based biotech. With a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and 15 years of experience, he applies AI and knowledge graphs to discover new treatments for rare diseases.



Before his current focus on rare human diseases, he co-founded an animal health monitoring company where he served as CTO.

Personality Overview

Consensus Focused

Amiable & Agreeable

Story Driven

Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials.  They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.
 They are more about building relationships than just cutting deals.

Topics They Care About

AI in Drug Discovery
He leads the AI team at Healx, developing the company's biograph "healnet" and end-to-end drug‑prediction pipelines to find treatments for rare diseases.
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs
His team specializes in graph machine learning, implementing novel graph technology to map and understand complex data related to rare diseases.
Rare Disease Research
His work is mission-driven to transform the lives of rare disease patients, a focus demonstrated by his long tenure since joining Healx as an early employee.

Media Appearances

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Work History

12-2021
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Healx
4-2020 - 12-2021
Technical Lead - Machine Learning at Healx
1-2019 - 3-2021
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Healx
5-2022
Treasurer and Trustee at Oakington C of E Primary PSA
11-2015 - 8-2016
Co-Founder & CTO at SmartBell

Education

2005 - 2009
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from University of Cambridge
2003 - 2004
Master of Science (M.Sc.) from Trinity College Dublin

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Insights For Selling To Daniel

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Ask them how their day is going or exchange some other pleasantries
  • Refer to interesting customer testimonials and stress on great customer experience
  • Give them the opportunity to lead the conversation where possible

DONT's

  • Don’t push them for a direct ‘no’, take lack of ‘yes’ as ‘no’ after some time
  • Don’t be too formal with them, they trust informality more
  • Don’t be excessively objective, be like a storyteller with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Daniel is

  • Relationships and rapport matter to them, but so does the value of the product.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Daniel

  • They are unlikely to say no directly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Daniel move?

  • They are not very fast decision makers, even while they continue to stay engaged.
  • Can Daniel take some risk or not?

  • If it seems really necessary, they can take small risks.

You And Daniel

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