Big Data is the New Currency - New York City

Robert J. Shapiro is former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs and current Chairman of Sonecon, LLC. Dr. Shapiro brings broad knowledge and experience in economics and politics based on his decades of conducting analysis and providing advice to presidents including U.S. president Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, senators, representatives and governors, as well as foreign leaders and senior executives at numerous Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies.

Gordon Ritter is 2019 Buy-side Quant of the Year, adjunct professor at New York University and a former senior portfolio manager at systematic hedge fund GSA Capital in New York. Gordon founded his own quantitative trading firm; before that he was a senior portfolio manager at GSA Capital where he designed, built, and managed statistical arbitrage strategies in multiple geographies and asset classes, and directed research.

Javed Jussa is responsible for alpha signal, Big Data, ESG, and small-cap research and managing the day-to-day operations of the QES team. Prior to Wolfe Research, Javed was the US Head of Quantitative Strategy at Deutsche Bank. Javed also has several years of experience in the investment business with Macquarie Capital, CIBC World Markets, and IBM Consulting. Javed holds a joint Bachelors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an MBA in finance and statistics.

Jason Bloomberg is a leading IT industry analyst, author, keynote speaker, and globally recognized expert on multiple disruptive trends in enterprise technology and digital transformation. He is ranked #5 on Onalytica’s list of top Digital Transformation influencers for 2018 and #15 on Jax’s list of top DevOps influencers for 2017, the only person to appear on both lists.

Joseph Simonian is a Senior Investment Strategist at Acadian Asset Management. Before joining Acadian, Joseph was the Director of Quantitative Research for the Portfolio Research and Consulting Group at Natixis Investment Managers. Prior to that, he was a principal research analyst in the Global Institutional Solutions Group at Fidelity Investments. He was also previously a vice president at J.P Morgan Asset Management and PIMCO. Joseph is a noted contributor to leading finance journals and is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Financial Data Science and Advisory Board member for the Financial Data Professional Institute.

Barry Hurewitz is the Global Head of Evidence Lab Innovations, prior to his current role, Mr. Hurewitz served as Global COO for UBS Investment Research. During Barry's tenure, UBS Research was voted the top global equity research provider in the world by Institutional Investor magazine. Before joining UBS, Mr. Hurewitz was the Global COO of Investment Research at Morgan Stanley, where he founded AlphaWise.

Feargal O'Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, is a proven business leader with the rare ability to blend business acumen and deep technical knowledge. With over 20-years of experience at BlackRock, Reuters and NYSE, Feargal understands the needs of clients and vendors in equal measure.

Swagato is a quantitative researcher in the equities electronic trading team at RBC. His main responsibilities are making enhancements to the electronic trading platform and working with the electronic sales and sales trading team in improving trading performance for clients. After graduating with a PhD in Engineering from Cornell University, he was a quantitative researcher in the electronic trading teams at Citi and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining RBC, he was a researcher and trader at a quantitative hedge fund working on statistical arbitrage strategies and long term factor models.

Yimei Guo is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Investment Research Technology at Morgan Stanley. As a senior technology leader, she is responsible for setting strategy and delivering innovative solutions to drive business outcomes. In recent years, Yimei has been leading strategic initiatives in machine learning, data and analytics, and digital transformation. She was recently named one of IBM’s 2019 Women Leaders in AI. Throughout her 25+ year career, Yimei has built expertise spanning various business and technology areas including Investment Research, Global Capital Markets, Client Relationship Management, Content Management, and Digital Marketing.

Robert has more than thirty years’ experience developing and using tools, frameworks and data to solve problems in markets and investing. Previously the Chief Product Officer at Kensho, he was exposed to the challenges vendors face in supporting a varied client base, leading teams of a different culture, and managing through the before and after of a successful acquisition. Prior to this, Robert spent twenty-six years at Tudor working across a range of functions (PM, Strategist, Developer) which resulted in a well-developed understanding of the requirements demanded by large, top performing clients in a high stakes environment.

Milind Sharma’s 23 years of market experience span running prop desks at RBC & Deutsche Bank (Saba unit) as well as hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM). His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ, Battle of the Quants & BattleFin. He was also a co-founder of Quant Strategies at MLIM (now BlackRock) & was co-architect of Raven TM (derivatives risk system) at Ernst & Young. His publications have appeared in JoIM, Risk Books, Elsevier, Wiley etc. In addition to dual MS degrees he was also in the Logic/ AI PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. Other education includes Oxford, Vassar & Wharton.

Bogdan Ianev is a Director in Equity Derivatives Structuring at Credit Suisse, where he co-leads the development of volatility-based equity derivatives payoffs and systematic investment strategies for various types of investors. Before to his current role, Mr. Ianev spent 3 years structuring corporate derivative solutions for insurers also at Credit Suisse. Prior to his 12 years at Credit Suisse, Mr. Ianev worked for as an actuary and investment professional at an insurance company. He holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Wabash College. Mr. Ianev is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a certified Financial Risk Manager and a CFA charterholder.

Jib leads Deloitte Consultings’ Analytics offerings for the Investment Management sector in the U.S. helping buy side and asset servicing clients in major technology and business transformations including data modernization, cloud enablement, data analytics, and operational improvement.

John is the Head of Macro Strategy Products & Analytics at Bank of New York Mellon, the group responsible for developing macroeconomic models and analytics for BNYM Markets business and their clients by applying the tools of data science to vast amounts of proprietary, market and macroeconomic data sets. Before joining BNYM, John headed teams of data scientists at State Street, guiding R&D in a number of areas including behavioral finance, alternative data, multi-asset risk management, sustainable investing, private equity and quantitative investment management.

Matthew Bergerman joined the DTCC Data Products team in July of 2015 as a Director charged with the development of solutions in the Equity, Fixed Income, and Reference Data space. He has worked in the Financial Information industry for over 20 years. He has worked on the vendor side previously in the production of data and the development of data applications at Thomson Financial and Pershing.

Armando Gonzalez is President & CEO of RavenPack, the leading provider of big data analytics for financial institutions. Armando is an expert in applied big data and artificial intelligence technologies. He has designed systems that turn unstructured content into structured data, primarily for financial trading applications. Armando is widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable authorities on automated text and sentiment analysis.

Peter is a pioneer in the field of applied news analytics, bringing alternative data to banks and hedge funds. He has more than 15 years of experience in quantitative finance with companies such as Standard & Poor's, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Saxo Bank.