San Francisco data summit 2023

Duncan W. Robinson is the Director of Quantitative Insights and Data Science at Allspring Global Investments, a data scientist, a former options market-maker and the creator of several patent-pending inventions covering alternative data, including ESG, SDGs, data privacy and signal evaluation. In this capacity, he leads a team that is responsible for innovation, research, risk measurement, regime analysis and exploring alternative data using quantitative and statistical learning techniques.

Nick Fusco is the founder and CEO of ApeVue which creates unique alternative data products to more holistically service institutional grade investor needs across primary and secondary private equity markets.  ApeVue’s launch was the first broker consortium-based pricing service to provide daily updated pricing for private stocks and establish an index benchmark which remains the most cited index to reflect timely performance of the pre-IPO space.  In addition to sitting as the CEO of ApeVue, Nick also chairs the Audit Committee on the WisdomTree Digital Trust, understanding the importance of asset valuation and fund audit needs.  Prior to ApeVue, Fusco was an Executive at Semantic Evolution, a London-based data extraction SaaS company with a backbone in AI neural networks.  Servicing predominantly private equity and credit focused clients, Nick was responsible for heading revenue growth and partnerships globally for Semantic.  Earlier in his career, Fusco built and managed various bond and derivative index services, pricing services for OTC assets, and reference data products for IHS Markit.  Nick split his professional career between New York, Boston, and London. The solutions provided by his teams were integral during the mortgage crisis and credit crunch, maintaining prominence today by helping reduce risk with greater transparency for the market. Nick is motivated by being able to tackle customers' most complex data extraction, analytics, and calculation needs possible. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics from Trinity College.

Adam Brown is a Vice President in the Systematic Advisory Sales (SAS) team at Morgan Stanley focused on the marketing, sales, and distribution of Morgan Stanley’s Quantitative Assets (MSQA). This entails servicing institutional clients with research, signals, and strategies to help them achieve alpha generating returns and manage risk. He has at been at Morgan Stanley for almost eight years, with previous roles of servicing institutional quant clients in the firm’s Prime Brokerage Division, and as an equity derivatives associate in cash settlements.

Amanda Widjaja is the Head of Data at Norwest Venture Partners, a VC and Growth Equity fund in the Silicon Valley with $15.5 Billion under management. She oversees initiatives that augment the firm’s investment process using data science and engineering, from identifying interesting companies all the way to portfolio tracking, and is an advisor of their portfolio companies in the areas of analytics and data engineering.

Prior to that, she came from Facebook as the first data hire on the Social VR projects within their AR / VR and hardware org where they shipped nascent and experimental products. Earlier in her career, she went to pastry school and apprenticed for a chef in France, founded and sold a multi-unit F&B chain in Indonesia, and was a BI Engineer at PitchBook Data.

Annabelle recently graduated from the University of Surrey with an MSc in Criminology, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. She also holds a BA degree in Sociology from the University of Leicester.Prior to joining Neudata, she spent time assisting in research within law enforcement, with a specific focus on using data-driven approaches to inform policy. Annabelle has a particular interest in using technology to undertake research and enjoys learning about artificial intelligence within data analysis.

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.

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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Chad Gray currently serves as Vice President of Data Science at Silver Lake. In this role, Chad leads Silver Lake’s efforts to integrate alternative data into pre-investment and post-investment activities. Chad has been active in the alternative data industry since 2008, when he launched Tech Channel Index, a real-time indicator of B2B and B2C tech spending.

Prior to joining Silver Lake, Chad held investing, operating, and leadership roles in quant hedge funds and SaaS tech companies. He has been involved in the alternative data industry since 2008 when he Chad earned an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.S. in Computer Science from MIT, a B.S. in Engineering from Northwestern University, and is a CFA charterholder.

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Chip is a partner at Lake Partners, a boutique strategy consulting firm in Seattle, WA with a focus on equity investors (public and private) and corporate M&A.  Over the last decade, Chip has advised clients on how to incorporate alternative data into the investment due diligence process.  He and his firm have vetted hundreds of data products and teams, built multiple internal data platforms and witnessed the evolution of data provider pricing and business models that led to successful market traction and exits.