The Crux Summit:
Fall 2020

Matt is an industry leader in enterprise data platforms. For over 20 years, he led the development of business-critical analytics platforms at Goldman Sachs.

As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the entire data platform of Goldman’s $1T asset management business. Matt also co-led Goldman’s risk management platform where his team built Goldman’s first, company-wide data warehouse that helped it navigate the 2008 financial crisis.

In 2015, Matt joined Snowflake to run Product Management and then went on to launch the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Today Matt leads the Financial Services business globally where he is driving customer and product strategy for one of Snowflake’s most important industry verticals.

Suzanne is the CEO and Founder of EOSE. She is a seasoned data professional with a proven record of accomplishment in sales, product development and data licensing supported with an excellent understanding of data systems and technical requirements. Before building EOSE she has previous experience in developing and launching market data businesses for exchange, vendor and broker employers. Now Suzanne is taking that experience in creating product and growing revenues as an outsourced service to the market. EOSE are at the forefront of data services, working with both data producers and consumers to find opportunities in Data.

Adam Salem is the Head of Technology and Portfolio Implementation for Multi-Asset Solutions at AllianceBernstein. Adam’s team is focused on building a state-of-the-art data and research architecture for running quantitative investment strategies.

Jeff focuses on Applied AI in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO. Previously, Jeff was a Senior Vice President, Data Science Engineering at Blackstone, an alternate asset manager. In this role, he focused on data science, data engineering, and data visualization within the firm’s technology leadership. Before Blackstone, Jeff was Director of Data Engineering at Ipreo, a financial technology company, VP Technology at Observer Media, a publisher, and CTO of an early-stage retail data analytics startup. Before these roles, Jeff was Chief Data Scientist at S&P Capital IQ, where he founded the company's first data science team, and was a core member of the technology leadership team focused on content and data management. Jeff received a bachelor degree in Biology at the University of Virginia.

In his current role Richard is at the forefront of driving the digital transformation of Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), and runs the product development for the Investment Banks Asset Manager Platform. Providing an integrated set of products and services from J.P. Morgan and 3rd party providers to the Asset Management Community.

Richard joined J.P. Morgan in 1997 as a Developer and has excelled in various roles across CIB Technology and the wider Fixed Income organization. His expertise includes a breadth of experience across the processing and risk management of Fixed Income products, electronic trading, Finance and Product Control, and the delivery of technology to client-centric businesses.

Prior to TSIQ, Graeme worked as the Chief Architect at Dell Software and as a Distinguished Engineer in various product and research divisions at IBM. His areas of focus have been on building scalable and robust solutions and developing middleware and cloud technology.

At TSIQ, a Two Sigma initiative, his focus is now on building cloud-native solutions focused for the insurance industry.

When he is not at TSIQ he spends his free time on his bike(s) training to keep up with the local racers and taking photographs to justify his GAS for new camera equipment.

Stephen is the GM (General Manager) of AWS Data Exchange and author of the book “Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT”.

Stephen spent his first three-and-a-half years with Amazon as the Global Head of Enterprise Strategy, where he oversaw AWS’s enterprise go-to-market strategy, invented and built AWS’s Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), and helped executives from hundreds of the world’s largest companies envision, develop, and mature their IT operating model using the cloud. Stephen authored Ahead in the Cloud so customers might benefit from many of the best practices Stephen observed working with customers in this role.

Prior to joining AWS, Stephen was the CIO of Dow Jones, where he introduced modern software development methodologies and reduced costs while implementing a cloud-first strategy. These transformational changes accelerated product development cycles and increased productivity across all lines of business, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, Dow Jones Newswires, and Factiva.

Stephen also spent 11 years at Bloomberg LP, holding a variety of leadership positions across their equity and messaging platforms, before founding Bloomberg Sports in 2008, where he served as CTO.

Stephen earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from State University of New York College at Fredonia.

Eric Suss is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. His department maintains, distributes, and reports on Institutional Securities trading, revenue and risk data. It is also responsible for product reference data and end-of-day pricing data as well as applications for the middle-office that facilitate straight-thru processing for cash equities and listed derivatives. Eric joined Morgan Stanley in 1996 and has worked in many groups in technology including Prime Brokerage, Engineering, and Operations Technology. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Eric was at AT&T and Bellcore. Eric holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Mark Heckert is Chief Product Officer at ICE Data Services, which is part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). He oversees product management and new product development across the ICE Data Services portfolio of services, which support an array of solutions that enable customers to market, benchmark, manage risk and determine their investment strategies.

Heckert has over 20 years of senior level experience serving the fixed income data industry and developing new products that bring more transparency to global markets. Before his role as Chief Product Officer, Heckert led the fixed income valuations business for Interactive Data (acquired by ICE in December 2015), where he directed the development of the Continuous Evaluated Pricing service, which provides streaming evaluated bond prices for over 2.4 million securities. Before joining Interactive Data in 1998, Heckert worked at State Street Bank & Trust Co. He holds a MBA in finance and strategy from Boston University and a BA in political economy from Michigan State University.

Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon joined RepRisk in 2013 and is the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Over her tenure, she has established and led RepRisk’s globally distributed Sales, Partnerships, Client Relationship Management, Sales Operations, and Marketing & Communications teams.  

Before joining RepRisk, Alexandra worked on the Global Sustainability Affairs team at Credit Suisse, focusing on environmental and social risk management, green business opportunities, corporate responsibility reporting, and employee engagement. Prior to this, she worked at the US headquarters of Mercedes-Benz, holding positions within brand marketing and business development. 

Alexandra holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), in Switzerland, with an exchange semester at the HEC Paris (École des hautes études commerciales de Paris), in France. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (honors), and a Certificate in International Studies from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Ryan Kelley is a Vice President at Moelis & Company in the Data Analytics group. Ryan specializes in using quantitative methods to advise clients on topics including optimal capital structure, capital return, valuation, and more. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was at Goldman Sachs in the M&A and Corporate Finance Strats group.

Philip Brittan is the founder and CEO of Crux Informatics, Inc., helping companies simplify their data delivery. He has over 30 years experience as a technology and business leader, primarily in FinTech. In addition to founding four start-ups, he served as CTO and Global Head of Platform for Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk division, headed up Google Finance, and ran Bloomberg’s foreign exchange business. Philip grew up on a ranch in Montana, holds a degree in Computer Science from Harvard, and loves making music and spending time outdoors.

Amy E. Hodler is a network science fan and AI and graph analytics program director at Neo4j. She promotes using graph analytics and data science for predicting complex behavior and has worked at companies such as Microsoft, Hitachi, and Cray Inc. Amy has a fascination for complexity studies and is the co-author of the O’Reilly book, “Graph Algorithms: Practical Examples in Apache Spark & Neo4j." She tweets @amyhodler.

With a passion for technology, Matt is the founder and leader of McKinsey’s Financial Services Lab—a team of data scientists, systems architects, engineers, and software developers spread across New York, Silicon Valley, Boston, Atlanta, and London—that builds at-scale data and analytics tools to drive business transformations for financial institutions. He also oversees GCI Analytics, McKinsey’s commercial banking data and analytics platform. Matt’s expertise extends to strategy and corporate finance, where he has led McKinsey’s work in this space in the Northeast offices of the United States.

Prior to rejoining McKinsey, Matt cofounded a multicategory ecommerce retailer and worked as private-equity investor. Drawing on his extensive experience in software and technology, he now helps corporate and investment banks, asset managers, wealth managers, real estate companies, and private-equity firms build custom data and software applications to transform operations and drive near-term value. These applications have included issues such as multichannel customer acquisition, customer retention, credit underwriting, credit collections, natural language processing of contract data, real-estate location selection, fraud, smart operations and robotic-process automation, and people analytics.

Outside of work, Matt serves on the board of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and on the event committee of the Concert Artists Guild in New York City. He is an avid reader of fiction, pickup-basketball player, traveler, and committed fan of the New York Jets and Knicks.

Mark joined Schroders in 2014 where he has formed the Data Insights Unit, a team of data scientists. The team uses alternative data, analytics and machine learning for investment and research, to give fund managers an ‘information edge’ over competitors. Before joining Schroders Mark’s career has been in various other Insight roles, including McLaren F1 (Race Strategy Analyst), Tesco (Customer Insight and Site Location Planning), Talent Innovations (CTO) and Telefonica Smart Steps (Head of Analytics of Telefonica’s Big Data monetization initiative).

Abhishek is a Vice President and Technology Fellow in Goldman Sach's core engineering division. He leads data curation, data warehousing and data engineering efforts across Goldman's lines of business. Recently his focus has been on co-creating the cloud strategy for the business and building a roadmap for a SaaS based storage. In line with this strategy, he has also built data model driven APIs for consumption, implemented solutions to migrate existing data to the cloud and provide access to centralized, cloud based vendor data repositories. In a career spanning 14 years at Goldman Sachs, he has worked on optimizing availability and access to high quality data for different business units. With a bias for action and business value creation, he hopes to deliver on cloud based data tools for Goldman Sachs so our engineers can use it to uplift our client services.

Michael Buckland grew up in England and studied history at Oxford and librarianship at Sheffield University. He trained at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and moved to the University of Lancaster Library in 1965. From 1967 to 1972 he was worked on a series of studies of book usage, book availability, and library management games. His doctoral dissertation was published as Book Availability and the Library User (Pergamon, 1975).

In 1972 Buckland moved to the United States to be Assistant Director of Libraries for Technical Services at Purdue University Libraries before becoming Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley from 1976 to 1984. He served from 1983 to 1987 as Assistant Vice President for Library Plans and Policies for the nine campuses of the University of California. He has been a visiting professor in Austria, Australia, Norway, and Sweden and was President of the American Society for Information Science in 1998. In 2004 Buckland became Emeritus Professor and has remained active in research, writing, and since 2000 as Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.

Professor Buckland's interests include bibliography, library services, search and discovery, cultural heritage, and the history and theory of documentation. He worked with Fredric Gey and Ray Larson on ways to make bibliographical searching easier and more effective through search support for unfamiliar metadata vocabularies and improved geographical search. Recent work with Ryan Shaw and Patrick Golden on “Editorial Practices and the Web” developed a platform to support and make openly accessible the research notes of editors preparing scholarly editions of historically important texts.

His writings include Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine, a biography (Libraries Unlimited, 2006), Library Services in Theory and Context (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988), Information and Information Systems (Praeger, 1991), Redesigning Library Services (American Library Association, 1992), and Information in Society (MIT Press, 2017).

More at http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/.

Mr. Socher is GMO’s Chief Technology Officer. He has more than thirty years’ experience building and leading technology organizations for global financial firms. He also currently serves on the Board of LayerOne Financial, which offers a cross-asset class investment management platform. Immediately prior to joining GMO, he was the Chief Technology Officer of VaraQuest, a firm he founded focused on using machine learning to construct and manage investment portfolios. Previously, Mr. Socher held Chief Information and Technology Officer positions at Fortress Investment Group, Amaranth Group, and Susquehanna International Group. Prior to that, he led the technology effort for the Capital Markets Group at NationsBank Capital Markets. Mr. Socher earned his BEconSci in Computer Science and Econometrics and BSc Hons in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand, and his MBA in International Finance from Stern School of Business at New York University.

Hinesh Kalian is Director of Data Science at Man Group. He is responsible for data strategy, data acquisition, data science and data science engineering across Man Group’s investment managers. Hinesh was formerly Head of Data Science and Investment Implementation for Man AHL, where he was responsible for monitoring and verifying activity on the Man AHL trading system, new data acquisition and strategy, data management and portfolio implementation. Prior to joining Man Group in 2010, Hinesh spent six years at JPMorgan. Hinesh holds an MSc in Finance from the University of London.

Morgan has over 20 years of experience as a portfolio manager, researcher, technologist, executive and entrepreneur in the financial services industry. He is CEO of CloudQuant, the cloud-based quantitative research environment that leverages cloud computing, crowd researchers, machine learning and alternative datasets to help companies generate alpha at scale. He is excited to bring the opportunities for intellectual challenge and financial reward traditionally reserved for institutional research analysts to independent crowd researcher partners around the world.

Prior to that, he has built quantitative trading businesses at some of the world’s largest Hedge Funds and Investment Banks. In the past, he has served as a Portfolio Manager for both Citadel Investments and Carlson Capital and has served as Global Head of Equity Trading for several large high-frequency trading firms. Morgan is a recognized expert in Prediction, Machine Learning, High-Frequency Trading, Autonomous Market Making and is interested in the application of Deep Learning to quantitative trading. Morgan earned a BS and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT.

Equal parts strategic thinker, skilled relationship builder, and market-structure innovator, Maria Adamjee leads Partnerships and Alliances at Beacon, a development platform designed for financial innovators to quickly build, test and deploy cloud-native analytics apps across their enterprise.

Before joining Beacon, Maria was the founder and CEO of Megalodon Capital, providing thought leadership to visionaries launching new ventures in FinTech, Digital Assets, and Decentralized Finance. Her strong foundation in market structure comes from experience at firms including RBC, ITG and Merrill Lynch and Fidessa where she traded ETFs, Options and Futures. Her expertise in technology comes from a passion for idea generation and a desire to disrupt conventional, antiquated workflows with future-proofed solutions.

Maria studied Economics and Physics at the University of Toronto with a Masters in Applied Statistics.

John Regino is Executive Director, Business and Product Strategy, Analytics - Americas at MSCI Inc., a publicly-traded company (NYSE: MSCI) and a leading global provider of investment decision support tools, including indices and portfolio risk and performance analytics.

Mr. Regino works alongside a multi-functional, global team, to design and execute on MSCI Analytics’ growth initiatives by focusing on business and product strategy, market research, product roadmap, sales and marketing, and productivity enablement.

Before joining MSCI, Mr. Regino was a sell-side equity strategist at Bear Stearns. Prior to this, he was a product specialist for FactSet Research System’s Market Analysis software application. He started his career as a business cycle economist at The Conference Board, an economic think-tank.

Mr. Regino holds an MA from Columbia University and a BA from Rutgers University. He serves as a Director for the Society of Quantitative Analysts (SQA) as well as a Director for the ULISSES Project at Eccles School Business at the University of Utah.

Mr. Vacanti is the co-founder and CEO of YipitData, a 150-person New York City fintech startup specializing in analyzing the growing amount of alternative data for institutional investors. Founded 6 years ago, YipitData now works with over 250 of the world's largest hedge funds and long-only funds. Previous to YipitData, he was a member of the investment team at Quadrangle Group, a $2 billion fund investing in tech, media, and telecommunications companies. Previous to Quadrangle Group, he was an investment banking analyst in The Blackstone Group's mergers and acquisitions advisory practice. He graduated with honors from Harvard College with a degree in Applied Mathematics where he was a teaching fellow in Harvard's computer science department.

Aviva has over a decade of experience leading high performing teams in strategy, marketing and customer experience. Her clients have spanned multiple sectors, including commercial real estate firms, hedge funds and PE shops. Previously, she was a senior member of teams at VTS/Hightower, Onavo/Facebook and TytoCare.

Sebastian Hedencrona is a startup and growth-stage commercial leader. He launched his first venture in Australia in 2002 and moved to the UK in 2005 to join gaming software company Gamesys.

Employee number three at leading target audience company GlobalWebIndex (GWI), Sebastian spent eight years building a global commercial organization establishing GWI as a commercial partner for SMEs to Enterprise organization globally.

After spending two years in New York launching the GWI US operation in 2017, Sebastian is now responsible for business expansion through commercial partnerships. Sebastian is Chief Growth Officer at GWI, a super proud dad, and a passionate road cyclist.

Kumesh Aroomoogan is the co-founder and CEO of Accern, a New York-based, venture-backed AI startup. Founded in 2014, Accern accelerates AI workflows for financial enterprises with a no-code development platform and has raised $16m to date. In 2018 Kumesh was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Technology list. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of BrandingScholars, an advertising agency, a General Accountant at the Ford Foundation, an Executive Board Member, Chairman of Public Relations at ALPFA, Equity REsearcher at Citigroup, and a Financial Analyst at SIFMA.

David has more than 20 years’ experience of capital markets technology. Before joining BMLL as CTO, David was team lead at KCG responsible for real-time trading systems for Europe and historical quantitative research systems with L3 data. Prior to that he was responsible for market data G Research, and previously was CTO for E*TRADE UK.

David holds a PhD in Bayesian data analysis and a degree in Physics, both from Cambridge University. He was one of the founders of the Apache Software group and was involved in the standardisation of the Web and HTTP.
David’s extensive knowledge of the HFT trading and product development space allows BMLL to scale its technology ambitions for the future.

Josh has over 20 years of capital market experience. Prior to joining OpenDoor, Josh founded Fina Technologies, Inc., a financial technology consulting company, primarily in the Fixed Income/Rates/Volatility, Futures, FX and Equities markets. He previously worked for major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs International, Deutsche Bank, and Countrywide Capital Markets, where he traded U.S. Treasuries and Agencies, Swaps, FX and related products. He has technical expertise in building statistical and Term-Structure valuation models for off-the-run and high-coupon securities. While at Countrywide Capital Markets, Josh architected the entire trading infrastructure and helped establish a U.S Treasury Primary Dealership. Josh received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chris Higginson has spent over 20 years on Wall Street writing software for equity derivatives traders. He began his career helping build real-time risk systems at large investment banks, including Banc of America, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays. He then served as CTO and CEO at Derivix, a startup company providing pre-trade analytics, broker-neutral execution, and portfolio risk management services to firms until FlexTrade Systems acquired the company. Following this, he consulted at Ronin Capital, a proprietary trading firm, to build real-time and backtesting tools for volatility trading. Chris now runs algoseek Services to deliver Institutional consulting, including custom data feeds, data analysis, research, and testing.

Robert Fish is a seasoned financial and commodities markets professional with over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of the market from covering them as a financial journalist, author and analyst, to developing commodity products and data services for multiple vendors. I have worked with numerous media houses such as Standard & Poors, Knight-Ridder, Bridge and had over 20 years in multiple commodity roles within Reuters. In 2019 I joined EOSE Data  as a commodities consultant for its LEBA Limited account.

William McCusker, Director of Partnerships for Habidatum International, leads the development of data focused digital solutions for urban planning, real estate, and civic tech projects. In addition to leading Habidatum’s Location Risk Score efforts in the US and the UK, William’s recent work includes an equitable growth mapping tool with Mastercard –  Inclusive Growth Score,  transit and nightlife studies with South Florida Commuter Services an FDOT program, and urban expansion and violent crime tracking with NYU – The Atlas of Urban Expansion, American Violence. William helps companies to activate and responsibly distribute their data, while providing clients with innovative data-driven solutions. 

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Turning location risk into financial benchmark. Habidatum delivers spatio-temporal data feeds and analytics to enhance commercial real estate (CRE) financial models with location risk big data.

Mark is the Chief Technology Officer of Crux Informatics, overseeing Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Operations, and Information Technology initiatives. Mark started his career at Logica, a UK software house, and later worked at J.P. Morgan, where he built major systems across the firm as well as headed their distributed computing group globally. Joining Goldman Sachs in the mid 2000’s, Mark led their infrastructure group in EMEA prior to leading the Application Systems Infrastructure group that established virtualization within the firm and led to the development of the Goldman private cloud. Leaving the firm in 2015 to help bring a trading spin-off to market, Mark joined Thomson Reuters through acquisition in 2017. Prior to joining Crux, he was the Global Head of Trading Technology at Refinitiv. Mark lives in New York with his wife Louise, has three children, and loves travel and skiing. Fun fact: he played a US Senator in a zombie TV episode and is happy to report that he died well.

David is Chief Operating Officer at Euronext FX, a leading Electronic Communications Network (ECN) for Foreign Exchange trading with matching engines in London, New York, Tokyo, and Singapore.

At Euronext FX David manages the Global Operations team, the Market Data business and has responsibility for product development, new product design and industry partnerships.

His career in Foreign Exchange originated in Spot FX trading and he has more than 20 years electronic and voice trading experience. He established and managed electronic trading desks for RBS in both London and New York before moving to ICAP in 2014 where he designed a trading platform for EBSBrokertec. David joined Euronext FX in 2018.

Gabriele is an open source executive and technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation FINOS from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.

Timothy Lind serves as Managing Director of DTCC Data Services, where he is responsible for guiding the firm’s data businesses, including services that leverage the vast amounts of data derived from DTCC’s global processing platforms while ensuring on-going alignment with all risk management and regulatory requirements.

Prior to DTCC, Tim held roles at Thomson Reuters, where he was responsible for developing and overseeing the growth of solutions to meet regulatory compliance data challenges. Before that, he worked at Omgeo (now DTCC) as its Chief Strategy Officer. His previous experience includes positions at GoldenSource Corporation, CEB Tower Group, SWIFT and Brown Brothers Harriman.

Tim is a recognized thought leader who is often quoted in the media and is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. He has also worked extensively with industry associations promoting data standards in the financial services industry.

As CTO at SADA, Miles leads SADA’s cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization.

Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded Google Cloud’s Solutions Architecture practice and launched hundreds of solutions. Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team and wrote the first AWS Well Architected framework.

Julia is a Data Insights lead at Crux and has extensive experience working with data in the financial industry. She is also a researcher with Berkeley Center for Risk Management Research. Prior to joining Crux, Julia was a Managing Director at State Street Global Advisors responsible for international equity factor portfolios. She was responsible for systematic equities research and portfolio management for Wedbush Equity Management, Infinium Capital, BlackRock and Citadel. In addition to her investment career Julia was teaching market microstructure and trading costs analysis at Berkeley HAAS School of Business. She holds doctorates from Stanford in physics and computer science.

Emmett Kilduff is the Founder and CEO of Eagle Alpha. Established in 2012, Eagle Alpha is the pioneer connecting the universe of alternative data. Prior to founding Eagle Alpha Emmett was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Morgan Stanley was the first investment bank to launch a big data offering (Alphawise) within its research department - that was the original inspiration for Eagle Alpha. Emmett has a Masters in the Internet and a Bachelor's degree in Business and Law.

Josh was a Co-Founder and CTO at Maluuba, a deep learning NLP company which was later bought by Microsoft. At Maluuba he built the earliest prototype, recruited the entire Machine Learning team, and oversaw general technology development from 4 people up to a 30 person company. He has 8 patents to his name all of which are core Maluuba IP. After leaving Maluuba he was a Principal Machine Learning engineer at Bloomberg for 4 years. At Bloomberg he helped start and build numerous critical Machine Learning initiatives including Ranking, Recommendation, Question and Answering, Crowd Sourcing, and Knowledge Graphs. He also acted as a consultant on numerous initiatives across the company and helped build several ML teams.

Daryl is Head of Research at Neudata. He and his team are responsible for researching and discovering alternative datasets for a wide range of asset managers worldwide. Prior to Neudata, Daryl worked as an equity research analyst at boutique investment firm Liberum across a number of sectors including Agriculture, Chemicals and Diversified Financials. Prior to Liberum, he worked at Goldman Sachs as an equity derivatives analyst and regulatory reporting strategist.

Daryl holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath and is a CFA charterholder.

Connel has worked at BoardEx for over 15 years and took up the role of Vice President of Operations in 2019 following the Euromoney acquisition. Connel started at BoardEx in the Technology department and has extensive experience working with clients on integration projects, fulfilment and technical pre-sales. Connel has an engineering background with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of KwaZulu Natal and has more than 20 years IT experience.

Jon Loyens is the CPO and co-founder of data.world, the cloud-native enterprise data catalog company. He’s a passionate advocate for building data-driven cultures rooted in openness and transparency. In a past life, Jon was the VP of engineering for Traveler Products at HomeAway and VP of engineering at Bazaarvoice. As a long-time technology executive in Austin, he has lived the rise in the trend of data and analytics as a democratizing force. Jon brought A/B testing and data-driven product management to Bazaarvoice and massively expanded the data programs at HomeAway.

One of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, Kalev is a Media Fellow at the Real Clear Foundation, a Senior Fellow at the Auburn University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security and a member of its Counterterrorism and Intelligence Task Force and a Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud Platform. From 2013-2014 he was the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence of International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor, as well as a Council Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government.  His work has been profiled in Nature, the New York Times, The Economist, BBC, Discovery Channel and the presses of more than 100 nations.  In 2011 The Economist selected his Culturomics 2.0 study as one of just five science discoveries deemed the most significant developments of 2011.  Kalev’s work focuses on how innovative applications of the world's largest datasets, computing platforms, algorithms and mind-sets can reimagine the way we understand and interact with our global world.  More on his latest projects can be found on his website at https://www.kalevleetaru.com/ or https://blog.gdeltproject.org

Pablo serves as Head of Marketing and Growth at Crux Informatics, overseeing branding, communications, product marketing, growth and community initiatives.

Prior to Crux, Pablo was Director of Partnerships & Marketing at YipitData, an alternative data company providing research to institutional investors. While at YipitData, he founded AlternativeData.org, a community for alternative data providers and investors. Prior to YipitData, he was Global VP of Market Management at Hotelied, an online travel agency, and Head of Operations at Gertrude, an art startup. Pablo started his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in the Global Natural Resources Group. He studied finance, international business, and history at Georgetown University.

Jason Taylor (“JT”) leads the Data Science and Strategy group at Crux, guiding data strategy across the firm including data architecture, curation, insights, tools, and training.

JT is an uncommon blend of quantitative finance, public speaking, data and programming. The first person to volunteer for 'impossible' projects, Jason holds both his CFA and FRM. When he is not speaking to clients, designing systematic strategies, or programming data products, he can often be found eating his way across NYC.

Harry serves as Senior Sales and Account Executive at Crux Informatics. Prior to Crux, Harry served in a Sales capacity at leading FINTECH companies including Murex, FIS Global, Intercontinental Exchange, and SuperDerivatives, where Harry started his career as a Product Specialist before moving into Sales, and eventually serving as Head of Sales for the Americas.

Harry is a former aspiring actor and TV Extra, a struggling magician, and an avid acapella singer, with performances at the White House, Citi Field, and other cool places. Harry lives in Westchester County, NY, with his wife and 3 children.