I See Data People

Judith is a Managing Director and Head Equities Quantitative Strategist for Scotiabank’s US Equities Sales and Trading. Prior to Scotiabank, Judith was a VP at Goldman Sachs and Citadel, after starting her career at Morgan Stanley.  Judith discusses how market makers leverage data to hedge trading risk. She delves into why market makers increasingly need to leverage fundamental data, in addition t...

Richard is co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of Datarade, working with thousands of different data providers and data buyers to make data commerce easy. Datarade operates Data Commerce Cloud™ (DCC) which enables data providers to sync data products instantly to sales channels including Google Cloud Analytics Hub, SAP Datasphere Marketplace, Alation Marketplaces, and Datarade’s proprietary Mark...

Jeremy is the founder of a new stealth startup in supply chain data infrastructure. Prior to co-founding his current company with Travis May (the founder and CEO of Datavant), Jeremy was the Head of Data Strategy for Walmart Data Ventures. Before Walmart Jeremy held a variety of roles in the data industry, including Global Head of Alternative Data at Bloomberg, Chief Revenue Officer at Estimize an...

David is the co-founder and CEO of Catylex, where he and his team leverage AI to extract data from contracts. Prior to Catylex, David was senior counsel at Bridgewater Associates, Executive Director and Counsel at UBS, and Director and Counsel at Credit Suisse. David started his career as a database developer before jumping into law at Cleary Gottlieb. David discusses the parallels between legal c...

Kirk is one of the most brilliant and intense entrepreneurs in the data industry. He is the co-founder of Carbon Arc, a decision intelligence company. Prior to Carbon Arc, Kirk was the head of proprietary research at Point 72 Asset Management. Earlier in his career Kirk was head of proprietary research at Glenview Capital and an analyst at Tudor Investments. Kirk discusses how data analysis couple...

This is our second special recap episode of I See Data People!  This recap episode summarizes 3 key themes: Data quality is vital to not only making the data usable, but also to trusting the results from models leveraging that data.  Failure to handle data quality issues correctly can lead to “fake news” problems, compounding biases and exacerbating societal challenges about whether we can trust t...

Scott is the founder and CEO of AltHub, where he helps data providers refine their offering so that investors and corporate data users can make use of the data. Prior to AltHub, Scott was the Managing Director Briarcliff Hall, a sales consultancy. He also ran sales at Roubini Global Economics, was COO of a division of Morningstar, a Managing Director of Data Feeds at Thomson Reuters, and started h...

Salam is a Senior Director of product at Similarweb, leading the market research data product which utilizes a combination of user based data and behavioral science. Salam is also a board member of Women in Tech. Prior to Similarweb she led product at Toluna, and previously worked at eBay, Microsoft and Intel. Salam discusses the rise of personalized data experiences, leveraging data to protect fu...

David is the founder and CEO of New Constructs, an investment research company leveraging AI to provide improved equity analysis. In addition to founding New Constructs, David previously ran a long/short equity hedge fund. Prior to New Constructs, David started his career at Credit Suisse, where he pioneered methods for analyzing regulatory disclosures and accounting information, and worked in exe...

Stefania is the founder and CEO of Physis Investment where she leverages ESG data and analysis to help investors understand, track, and measure the impact of investments. Prior to Physis, Stefania was an impact fund manager and an advisor to large institutional investors on ESG investing.  Stefania discusses use cases for sustainability data and how she sees ESG evolving over the next few years. S...

Saurabh is the founder and CEO of Taiyo AI and was previously the Director of the Stanford AI Index. Saurabh is also a current Brookings Institution Fellow and fellow at the Bank of International Settlements. Saurabh was previously an economist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Saurabh discusses the intersection between econom...

Amos is the founder and CEO if Prof of Wall Street and was previously an academic economist studying Neuroeconomics. Amos also served as the chief economist to a hedge fund and spent much of his career applying behavioral economics principles to marketing. Amos discusses how to utilize data to identify and combat cognitive biases in investing. He also touches on the intersection of AI, data scienc...

Scott is the founder and CEO of JaxonAI, a rapid prototyping platform that enables users to easily build and iterate upon custom, fully-trained AI models. Prior to Jaxon, Scott was the founder and CEO of Dropfire, Founder and Managing Partner of BigVAR, and Founder and Managing Partner of BigR.io. Scott discusses the evolution of AI model training in recent years, as well as his experiences sellin...

Sarah is the founder and CEO of Sequentum, a low code platform for collecting web data. Prior to founding Sequentum, Sarah spent most of her career as a quality assurance professional, giving her a unique perspective on how to data cleanliness and quality.  Sarah discusses how her perspectives on data quality influence how she thinks about scaling web data extraction and other challenges in gather...

Jon is the founder and Managing Partner of Anduril Partners. Prior to founding Anduril, Jon was portfolio manager and Chief Data Officer for Fundamental Equities at GSAM. Jon is also a current fellow at FISD. Jon discusses how the asset management community leverages data, and how he is increasingly seeing corporates adopt similar use cases for data as part of their workflow. Jon delves into how f...

This episode summarizes four key themes: What it takes to bring a data product to market How to price data and ways data pricing may soon change Trends in Artificial Intelligence and how it relates to data Predicting the next 5 years of growth in the data industry Our hosts, Omri Shtayer and Evan Schnidman, go into detail on each of these themes, referencing remarks made by our guests and insertin...

Thomas is the founder of Fc centripetal. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of ETR / Aptiviti. Thomas was a pioneer in the alternative data industry, blazing a path in 2008 into the space. Our discussion with Thomas discusses the process of productizing data, pricing it appropriately and understanding your client’s use case. He explains how poor data in the market can drive down the prices for...

Isabel is the founder and CEO of Arbilex, a data-driven marketplace for litigation finance. She started Arbilex after graduating from Harvard Law School and noticing her statistical background gave her a unique perspective on legal outcomes.  Our discussion with Isabel highlights how a data-driven approach to investing in litigation results in outsized returns. Isabel shares her experiences meldin...

Dan is the founder and CEO of GravityAI, a marketplace for data science and AI algorithms. Prior to founding GravityAI, Dan was a Head of Product at State Street, and a Senior Product Manager at Boston Consulting Group. Our discussion with Dan revolves around the rapidly evolving toolkit for data science and data engineering work. Dan delves into streamlining the data science workflow and where AI...

Mark is the Head of Data Sourcing for Capital Fund Management. Prior to CFM, he was the Communications Director for Exabel, and a Senior Analyst at Stratfor. Mark is also the host of The Alternative Data Podcast. Our discussion with Mark focuses on his unique story about breaking into the data industry, the current state and future of the industry and then delves into how he views data vendors fro...

Yedidya is the COO of Revelio Labs, a provider of labor market data. Prior to Revelio, Yedidya was in the film production industry, giving him a unique perspective on the data landscape. Our discussion with Yedidya focuses on how to build a data company and the importance of getting engineering right, not just producing a data product.

James is the co-founder and CEO of Quiver Quantitative. James and his brother founded Quiver Quant to bring insights from alternative data to retail investors. Capitalizing on the growth of retail investing during the pandemic, Quiver has built an enormous community of retail investors. Our discussion with James delves into the different tools and datasets available for retail investors versus ins...

Ed is the Vice President of the Investor Intelligence solution at SimilarWeb, where he helped start the investor intelligence business nearly five years ago. Prior to SimilarWeb, Ed worked for Phillip Morris and discovered that using web browsing data provided profound insights, driving him to seek a job at SimilarWeb. Our discussion ties together marketing data with hedge fund use cases. Ed delve...

Anju is the founder and CEO of EventVestor, a leading provider of financial fundamentals and event-based data. Prior to founding EventVestor, Anju worked in data management at Merrill Lynch, data analytics at KPMG and data architecture at IBM. Anju has seen all sides of the data industry as it has evolved over the past couple decades and we are thrilled he is sharing his knowledge with I See Data...

Our co-hosts Evan Schnidman and Omri Shtayer interview Dan Entrup. Dan is currently the Executive Director of Data Strategy at Henry Schein, and was previously the Director of Partnerships at FactSet, after having been the CEO of Datavore and head of strategy at M Science. Dan began his career in the expert network side of the industry, so he deeply understands how people are central to the data i...