New York Winter Data Summit 2024

Rich is a data management executive with more than 20 years’ experience in financial services.  In his role at Jain Global, he is responsible for the sourcing, procurement, and vendor management for data, research, and expert network services for the firm.  Rich previously managed similar functions at Citadel, and at Schonfeld where he also managed the shared research environment supporting the various investment teams.

Rich is the Founder and Chairman of Archedata, a software firm designed to optimize these data management functions.  Prior to these roles, Rich spent over a decade creating and managing data products at Thomson Reuters and his consulting firm, Semiotics.

Rich focuses on managing large scale data operations as well as leveraging technology-based solutions to improve efficiencies, drive cost savings, and discover new alpha generating content. Rich holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management and International Business from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Linked-In Profile:  linkedin.com/in/brownrichw

BMLL is the leading, independent provider of Level 3, 2 and 1 Historical Data and Analytics for the world’s most sophisticated Capital Markets participants.

Rob joined BMLL from Liquidnet, where he was Global Head of Equities with responsibility for Liquidnet’s global institutional equities business, an electronic trading network that includes more than 900 global Member firms that collectively manage $16+ trillion in equity assets. Based in New York, his focus was on providing asset managers with institutional-sized liquidity, value-added execution services and advanced analytics to help traders compete in data-driven investing and automation.

Rob joined Liquidnet in 2014 as Global Head of Execution & Quantitative Services (EQS) to oversee the development of Liquidnet’s award-winning suite of algos specifically designed for institutions and their unique workflows. In 2019, he became Chief Operating Officer at Liquidnet, overseeing global technology, operations, legal, compliance, marketing, corporate efficiencies, and vendor relations.

With over three decades of experience in electronic trading, program trading, prime brokerage, listed derivatives, structured products, and quantitative analytics, Rob has held senior leadership positions at Lehman Brothers, Nomura, and Macquarie, where he managed global and regional sales teams.

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Rob Weston has over 20 years of experience leading large-scale data projects in financial services, delivering global regulatory initiatives for HSBC, UBS, Rabobank, valued in the more. He has been at the forefront of deploying machine learning and language models for a decade and is now the founder of HSAT, working with global firms to predict crop production worldwide.

Robert Slater is the CEO and Founder of Cognitive Credit, a financial technology company that provides the world's leading credit investors with specialist data and analytics to form smarter, faster credit views. Prior to founding Cognitive Credit, Mr. Slater was Partner at Silver Rock Financial UK, the London-based investment vehicle of a multi-billion dollar single family office, where he led the firm’s research in Europe and co-managed the European investment portfolio across the credit, equity, and macro asset classes.

Before that, Mr. Slater worked at Citigroup for over a decade in New York, Hong Kong, and London, most recently focusing on corporate and sovereign investment opportunities as a member of the firm’s Credit Research and Trading business. At the time, he also served as a senior liaison between the firm’s Markets businesses and global policymakers. He is married with 3 children and lives in the US.

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Ronnie is Head of Research and Data Strategy at M2M Capital, spearheading efforts to revolutionize private equity valuations, focusing on transparency and efficiency within the private markets.

Ruairi Powers is an SVP, Product Manager at Neudata currently focusing on new product development.  He has extensive experience driving business and technology solutions across the investment domain. Previously, he served as a VP, Product Manager at Two Sigma, where he led product strategy for data catalog and data lineage solutions supporting the firm’s quantitative research teams.

Prior to that, he served as Manager of People Analytics at Principles: A Ray Dalio Company and held multiple technology leadership roles at Bridgewater Associates for over 20 years.  He holds a BS in Computer Science and Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Saif is Business Development Manager for the Buyside in London. Prior to joining Neudata, Saif worked in Private Equity bringing vendor offerings to the investor community. Formerly an institutional equity research salesperson Saif has over 6 years of Capital Markets and Private Markets experience. Saif has held various positions with Barclays and more recently, Preqin.

Saif received a First Class BA Honours in Business Management.

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Shicong is a Partner, Portfolio Manager and Controller, at Integrated Quantitative Investments (IQI). She has spent 13 years in quantitative asset management, at IQI and Man Numeric, in portfolio management roles. She brings deep experience in quantitative models, day-to-day portfolio management, client communications, and portfolio analytics across a wide array of global, international, and US equity strategies.Shicong has an MBA from Boston University Questrom School of Business and a BA in Economics from Cornell University. She is a CFA charterholder.