San Francisco Data Summit 2023

Speakers

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  Catherine Clay

  Cboe Global Markets

  Executive Vice President, Global Digital and Data Solutions

  Catherine Clay is Executive Vice President, Global Digital and Data Solutions at Cboe Global Markets. Under Clay's leadership, Cboe's market data and access services, market and risk analytics, global indices and order and trade management offerings work in tandem, providing Cboe's global client base with more efficient and streamlined access to the company's full suite of data services and trading resources. She also assists in evaluating potential acquisitions and assessing and facilitating infrastructure investments to maximize efficiencies and agility across non-trade engine applications.

  Previously, as Senior Vice President, Information Solutions, Clay led the growth of Cboe's holistic offering of indices, analytics and execution services, creating a high value offering for market participants. She joined Cboe as part of the company's 2015 acquisition of LiveVol, where she was Chief Executive Officer, after starting at the firm in 2010 as Chief Strategy Officer. Clay began her career as a clerk in Interactive Brokers' market-making unit, Timber Hill, and progressed to Lead Market Maker and Director of Floor Trading and Operations. In 2006, she left Timber Hill to co-found Thales LLC, a market-making firm on the NYSE Options Floor and on the OneChicago single stock futures exchange.

  Clay holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Colorado, where she learned the art of Zamboni driving. She serves on the Greenwood Project board of directors.

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  Amanda Widjaja

  Norwest Venture Partners

  VP, Data Science & Engineering

  Amanda joined Norwest in 2019 to lead the firm’s internal data science and engineering efforts and provide advisory services to Norwest portfolio companies in the areas of analytics and engineering.

  Prior to Norwest, Amanda led Data Engineering efforts for the AR/VR Metaverse team at Facebook. Earlier in her career, Amanda was a Business Intelligence Engineer at PitchBook and founded a multi-unit F&B chain, Bagel Bagel, in Indonesia.

  Amanda earned a bachelor of arts in business administration, with a focus in finance and entrepreneurship, from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

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  Artemiza Woodgate PhD

  Integrated Quantitative Investments (IQI)

  Chief Investment Officer

  Artemiza has over 15 years of investment management experience.   Before co-founding Integrated Quantitative Investments,  Artemiza was most recently a quantitative researcher at Man Numeric. Her research efforts focused on alpha signals, data processing, and model construction. Prior to joining Man Numeric in 2015, Artemiza was at Russell Investments for over a decade, where, as senior researcher, she focused on quantitative manager selection. Artemiza has taught courses in finance, economics and statistics at the University of Washington and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Artemiza has a PhD in finance from University of Washington, and an MSc and BSc(Hons) in mathematics from University of Auckland.  Her academic research focused on asset pricing and portfolio optimization. She has published in prestigious academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, and Management Science.