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Kayne Putman

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Director, Solutions Engineering (EMEA & APAC) at Decagon
📍 United Kingdom

Kayne is a data science leader with 15 years of experience in Applied AI. He is the Director of Solutions for EMEA & APAC at Decagon, where he scales the technical pre-sales team. His colleagues describe him as a credible, deeply technical, and fantastic people leader.

He launched and led the first internal Data Science function at British Airways, building the department from the ground up.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Director, Solutions Engineering (EMEA & APAC)
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
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AI Customer Experience
Currently leads a solutions engineering team at Decagon, which builds AI agents to deliver concierge-level customer experiences for enterprises.
Scaling Technical Teams
He is building out the Decagon Solutions Engineering team across EMEA & APAC and previously scaled a UK&I pre-sales team from 2 to 15 at DataRobo.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Director, Solutions Engineering (EMEA & APAC)
Decagon
1-2023 - 2-2026
VP (International) / Area VP (EMEA) / Regional VP (Europe), Applied AI
DataRobot
7-2019 - 1-2023
Director Pre-Sales / Director Data Science / Customer-Facing Data Scientist (UK&I)
DataRobot
8-2017 - 6-2019
Data Science Team Lead / Data Scientist, Pre-Sales (UK&I)
SAS
3-2017 - 8-2017
Head of Data Science & Innovation
British Airways
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Education
MSc with Distinction - Operational Research & Applied Statistics
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
BSc 1st Class (Hons) - Mathematics
Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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