New York winter data summit 2023

Aris Tentes is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and a member of the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Research team, based in New York. His research focuses on the development of quantitative signals and portfolio construction approaches, specializing in the cash equity space.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, he worked as a quantitative researcher at Deutsche Bank after starting his career in finance at Goldman Sachs in London. Aris earned his PhD at New York University in 2014.

Barney joined Neudata's research team in 2021, where he is responsible for uncovering new datasets across a range of sectors including ESG, digital and consumer-oriented landscapes. Previously, Barney spent three years at an executive search firm executing mandates across ESG, distribution, investment roles.He holds an MA in History from the University of St Andrews.

Brian Peller is the Founder and CEO of LIJO Advisory which helps hedge funds and asset managers with strategy, operations, technology and trading execution services. Brian is a leader in quant trading and investing with a background focused on working with PMs in many asset classes and strategies to anticipate and meet their investment strategy needs, including the use of alternative data.

As the COO of Multi-Asset Solutions at AllianceBernstein, Brian led its business transformation including the development of a centralized systematic platform with cutting-edge alternative data onboarding and integration processes. At Hutchin Hill Capital, he was COO of its equity quant trading business, which leveraged many types of traditional and alternative data sources. During his tenure at KCG (now part of Virtu), he was instrumental in growing its retail, single dealer platform and prop trading business.

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Brian Peltonen is the founder of stealth mode start up, parcosm.ai. Most recently, he initiated and led the AI and alt data research efforts for $1 trillion in assets for the Equity Division at the Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR Co.). His team was responsible for identifying alternative data sets and using AI to derive investment insights for Fidelity's equity division. Brian started his career in the video game industry as an AI programmer before leaving to build data science solutions for large corporations and the government at a boutique AI consulting firm.

Strategic technology leader driving AI-supported progress at the crossroads of alternative data and deal analysis. Mission-driven to enhance collective intelligence and lighten cognitive overwhelm. Deep experience spearheading data modernization initiatives and nurturing high-performance teams anchored in empathy, transparency and continuous growth.

Charles Myers, Chairman and Founder of Signum Global Advisors, has over25 years of US political and electoral experience advising candidates inPresidential, Senate, House of Representatives and Gubernatorial races,including Hillary Clinton for President 2016 and Joe Biden for President2020. He also has 30 years of experience in global financial markets.As Chairman, Charles works with financial institutions and multi-nationalbusinesses to anticipate and assess policy agendas and announcements.Areas of expertise include US foreign policy and the implications of the Bidenpresidency in the US, Europe and Asia. Charles also forecasts global tradepolicy and energy dynamics.Formerly Vice Chairman of Evercore ISI, he was the Founding Partner &Head of their Institutional Equities business. Prior to that, Charles served asGlobal Head of Equities and Board Member at Fox-Pitt, Kelton. Charles has aBA from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a post-graduate M. Phildegree from Cambridge University in England.

Dan is Founder of It's Pronounced Data, a consulting and media business focused on the data and information services sector. His career experience spans startups through Fortune 500 organizations, including senior roles at Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC) as Executive Director of Data Strategy, FactSet (NYSE: FDS) as SVP, Senior Director of Partnerships, and Datavore Labs as CEO leading the company to acquisition by Above Data in 2020. In addition to his executive roles, Dan serves as an Advisor to multiple data companies including Bobsled (data delivery), Exabel (data platform), Gulp Data (data valuation), and Intangiable (IP data).

Daniel Pickett leads the FreightWaves data science team collecting, cleaning and analyzing freight market data to drive actionable insights in the freight markets. The data team is focused on finding industry activity metrics to inform the freight/logistics community about market conditions at the local (not national) level. Using his career blend of technology and capital markets, Daniel is also focused on what high-frequency logistics data can tell us about the real-time health of the economy, the consumer and global trade.

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 and corporations worldwide.

Prior to Neudata, Daryl spent five years as an equity research analyst at boutique investment firm Liberum across a number of sectors including Agriculture, Chemicals and Diversified Financials.

Prior to Liberum, Daryl 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.

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