About
Simon Jordan is the founder and CEO of Jordan Technology, where he advises enterprise teams on generative AI strategy, architecture, and implementation, including RAG-based knowledge systems, agentic workflows, and responsible AI use. He holds a PhD in AI and has over 15 years of experience in the field, previously co-founding logistics and supply chain SaaS company byways, where he served as CTO through its acquisition and grew the engineering team from 2 to 25. Earlier in his career, he led speech dialogue systems and AI research at Volkswagen Group, covering natural language understanding, information retrieval, traffic prediction, and data analytics.
Founding CTO at Byways
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Experience
- Jordan TechnologyFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentBerlin, Germany
- bywaysCo-Founder & CTO2020 — 2024Berlin Metropolitan Area
- shiftdGGAI Advisor2019Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
- Volkswagen GroupHead of AI SDS Research2016 — 2019Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
- Volkswagen GroupProject Leader2014 — 2016Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Volkswagen GroupResearcher2013 — 2016Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region
- Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)Researcher2012 — 2013Belmont, California, United States
Skills & more
LeadershipRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)AI TransformationGenerative AISystem ArchitectureLarge Language Models (LLM)Machine Learning5Distributed Systems12Artificial Intelligence (AI)3Machine learning1Product Development1Programming2
Languages English · German
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Simon Jordan?
- Simon Jordan is the founder and CEO of Jordan Technology, where he advises enterprise teams on generative AI strategy, architecture, and implementation, including RAG-based knowledge systems, agentic workflows, and responsible AI use. He holds a PhD in AI and has over 15 years of experience in the field, previously co-founding logistics and supply chain SaaS company byways, where he served as CTO through its acquisition and grew the engineering team from 2 to 25. Earlier in his career, he led speech dialogue systems and AI research at Volkswagen Group, covering natural language understanding, information retrieval, traffic prediction, and data analytics.
- Where does Simon Jordan work?
- Simon Jordan is Founding CTO of Byways.
- What companies did Simon Jordan found?
- Simon Jordan founded Byways.
- Where did Simon Jordan go to school?
- Simon Jordan studied at Leibniz Universität Hannover (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Technische Universität Berlin (Dipl.- Inform., Computer Science); KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Computer Science).
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