New York winter data summit 2023

Dr. Alfred Spector is a Visiting Scholar at MIT and a Senior Advisor at Blackstone. His career has led him from innovation in large scale, networked computing systems to broad engineering and research leadership. Recently, he co-authored a textbook, “Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities.”

Previously, Spector was CTO and Head of Engineering at Two Sigma Investments. Before that, he spent eight years as VP of Research and Special Initiatives at Google, and he held various senior-level positions at IBM, including as global VP of Services and Software Research and global CTO of IBM’s Software Business. Earlier in his career, he founded Transarc Corporation, a pioneer in distributed transaction processing and wide-area file systems, and he was a tenured professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Spector is a Hertz Fellow and also a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Spector won the 2001 IEEE Kanai Award for Distributed Computing and the 2016 ACM Software Systems Award. In 2018-19, Dr. Spector lectured widely as a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar (for example, on the growing importance of computer science across all disciplines based on the evocative phrase, “CS+X”). He has been a member of the ACM Turing Award Committee and has done national service through chairing the NSF’s CISE Advisory Board and membership on the Army and now the Defense Science Boards. He has had extensive international experience due to broad responsibilities at IBM, Google, and Two Sigma. Dr. Spector obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford and a B.A. in applied math from Harvard.

Drew McCoy is President of Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), an election results and data collection and reporting service. In his role at DDHQ Drew is responsible for all aspects of DDHQ’s election, business, and editorial operations.

Drew joined DDHQ at its founding overseeing the company’s growth into a full-fledged results and data provider for outlets such as NewsNation, The Hill, Scripps News and local stations, Business Insider, and many others. In addition to its work with media outlets, DDHQ provides election results to political and business organizations.

Prior to his work with DDHQ, Drew worked in and around media for over two decades as a political commentator, and creative director for a full-service TV/video production and marketing company.

Decision Desk HQ is a leading provider of real-time election results, race calls and related data, and the only provider to cover US elections from the presidency and Congress to the county and city level. Launched in 2012 on a hunch that we could use technology to improve the speed and lower the cost of collecting election returns, we were first to call the presidency for Donald Trump in 2016 and for Vice President Joe Biden in 2020. In 2022, we were first to call control of Congress and also covered 16,000 local races. We continue to innovate with new technologies to drive more efficient results reporting that prioritizes accuracy, supports local coverage, and strengthens trust in the democratic process.

Eli Goodman is the co-founder and CEO of Datos, a global clickstream data provider. After more than two decades in strategic partnerships and sales leadership roles at leading data companies, Goodman launched Datos in 2020 to deliver trustworthy, privacy compliant datasets to better serve the Institutional Finance and Corporate marketplaces. 

Goodman is widely recognized as an industry thought leader and authority in the realm of data licensing, having given more than 100 keynotes over the course of his career. 

Prior to Datos, Goodman served as the Vice President of Sales at Jumpshot, responsible for Sales, Business Development, and Strategic Partnerships. Other roles of note include serving as the Corporate Evangelist at Comscore for almost 10 years and voice talent within the Gartner Talking Technology media group.  

Goodman holds a degree in Organizational Behavior Management from Brown University.

Eliza Raphael is the Head of Data Services at Jump Trading, LLC, a quantitative trading firm, where she is focused on continuing to drive the firm’s strategic data initiatives forward.  Prior to Jump, Eliza was Head of Market Data Services at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, LLC, a global multi-manager hedge fund. Eliza oversaw a team that was responsible for the strategy and sourcing of market data, spanning both traditional and alternative data within a variety of asset classes and regions. In addition to her role within market data, Eliza was an active leader in Schonfeld’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Alliance.

Earlier in her career, Eliza spent over 13 years at Nasdaq where her various roles included market data sales, product management, and business development. Her last role within Nasdaq was as Head of Alternative Data Partnerships for the Nasdaq Analytics Hub which acquired Quandl in late 2018. Eliza began her career at Bloomberg where she held both product and sales roles in New York and London.

Eliza’s extensive career spanning market data vendors, exchanges and the buy-side provides her a unique perspective into the market data landscape. Her experiences with alternative data, acquiring datasets for Nasdaq and Quandl as well as end-user consumers at Schonfeld, gives her insight into the many sides of the alternative data space.

Eliza is a graduate of James Madison University with a double major in International Business and Spanish. She currently lives in Westchester with her husband Adam and her two children, Jake and Lily.

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Evan Reich has a strong background in data strategy and sourcing. Evan is currently serving as the Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing at Verition Fund Management LLC. Prior to this role, they worked at Nasdaq as the Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing for Quandl from 2019 to 2021. Before joining Nasdaq, Evan held the position of Data Strategist and Global Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing at BlueMountain Capital Management, where they managed data vendor relationships and sourced new datasets for a multi-strategy hedge fund.

Evan also has experience in market data at Millennium Partners and alternative research and data services at SAC Capital. Evan's earlier career includes roles at an independent equity research company, Vista Research (an S&P company), Credit Renaissance Partners, Credit Suisse Private Equity/DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, and New York Consulting Partners. In these roles, they specialized in areas such as credit research, operational interventions, and supply chain logistics and strategy. Overall, Evan has amassed extensive experience working with data and driving strategic initiatives in various organizations throughout their career.

Evan Reich has attended Hunter College High School. Additionally, Evan has pursued studies in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, although specific start and end years for these educational experiences are not provided.

Hope Skibitsky is an experienced litigator in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office, where her practice focuses on technology and internet-related litigation, and her clients include some of the most cutting-edge technology companies in the world—from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups offering disruptive technologies.  Hope frequently litigates matters relating to data scraping, including litigating disputes under the Consumer Fraud and Abuse Act, breach of website terms of service, and related common law claims.   Hope also advises clients pre-litigation on related issues, including on ways to mitigate their legal risk profiles with respect to data collection and usage.  Hope frequently contributes to Neudata’s Alternative Data News and Insight blog, and recently participated as a legal panelist at an industry-leading conference on web scraping.

Quinn Emanuel is a global law firm with 33 offices across 11 countries.  Quinn Emanuel represents clients from every sector and in all areas of law and has been ranked as the “Most Feared Law Firm Globally” five times in the past six years by independent surveyors, BTI Consulting Group.

Ian heads the Client Engagement group at Neudata, as well as its busy programme of events. He has spent the last six years helping asset managers, investment banks and retailers to get value out of traditional and alternative data. Prior to that, Ian's experience encompassed analytical and commercial roles at Vodafone, Bank of Scotland and Liberty Mutual.

Ian holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and a Saltire Fellowship in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Massachusetts.

Scott is the founder and CEO of Live Data Technologies, a company providing real-time job change data for 100M+ US B2B professionals across 2M companies.

Scott is a long-time tech entrepreneur, with B2B contact data being a common thread. Additional interests include semantics (formal and lexical), context, and pattern recognition. He graduated Indiana University with a Distinction  BA in Economics.

Jason DeRise, CFA is the Head of Data and Analytics Products at Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI). LMI’s mission is to create capital that allows Liberty Mutual’s customers to embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow. LMI manages more than $100 billion across both public and private markets and actively trade for total return in fixed income. Prior to joining LMI, Jason was a founding member and Head of Data Strategy at UBS Evidence Lab. UBS Evidence Lab is a sell-side team of experts that work across 55+ specialized areas creating insight-ready datasets. The experts turn data into evidence by applying a combination of tools and techniques to harvest, cleanse, and connect billions of data items each month. The library of assets, covering 5000+ companies, across all sectors and regions, is designed to help answer the questions that matter to investment decisions. Jason is also the founder of DataChorus LLC, which provides advisory services for data companies to help generate actionable insights for business professionals and investors at scale, powered by data and technology. The primary source of the advisory services is via the Data Score Newsletter https://thedatascore.substack.com/. Earlier in Jason’s career he was a top-rated Senior Sell Side Research Analyst covering consumer sectors, including the European Beverages sector while based in London and the US Staple Retailer sector while based in New York City. He’s CFA Charterholder and graduated from Syracuse University Whitman School of Management with degrees in Finance and Accounting, and a minor in economics.