Elizabeth Pritchard | Bringing Structure to the World of AI Driven Intelligence

Joining Melody on today’s episode is Elizabeth Pritchard, recently named CEO of Bitvore - the leader in AI-driven intelligence from unstructured data. Elizabeth begins by sharing her journey into the STEM and finance industries, her 19-year tenure at Goldman Sachs, and the evolution of alternative data in the financial industry. She goes on to explain what alternative and unstructured data are, the challenges of extracting information from it and leveraging AI and the structured data it creates.    Elizabeth illustrates how traditional and alternative data can offer differ perspectives on a company, for example they may claim to be green, but ESG data shows that they are actually heavy emitters. These insights can help investors gain a more nuanced view of companies and help combat ‘greenwashing.’ The conversation concludes with her passionate advocacy work empowering young people, especially girls, to pursue STEM, and offers her vision of the world in the year 2041. Brimming with knowledge, wisdom, and enthusiasm, Elizabeth Pritchard is a well-known serial innovator, data activist, and analytics-driven executive, and, as you will hear today, a gifted educator and agent of change as well.    Elizabeth Pritchard has 25 years of experience as an executive in financial services, driving data and technology innovation for financial institutions and start-ups. She was Global Head of Market Data at Goldman Sachs and COO of the Global Data Science Group at AIG, co-founded Crux Informatics, where she was Head of Go-To-Market Strategy.  Just prior to accepting the CEO position at Bitvore, provided advisory services to alternative data and data infrastructure providers through her own company, White Rock Data Solutions. Elizabeth also advises industry professional associations SIIA and FISD Alternative Data Council on go-to-market strategy, and serves on the Board of Directors at Eagle Alpha and Global Data.    Episode Highlights:   ·   Elizabeth’s journey into STEM and finance ·   Her time at Goldman Sachs and the evolution she saw in the financial industry from a data driven innovation and AI perspective ·   Examples where traditional and alternative data offered differing views ·   Unstructured data and the challenges in extracting information out of it ·   Leveraging AI and the structured data it creates ·   What attracted Elizabeth to Bitvore and the initiatives there about which she is most excited ·   How Bitvore is bringing insights from ESG data to battle company ‘greenwashing’ ·   Elizabeth’s advocacy with Girls Who Code and STEM++Inno   Soundbites from the Expert:   Elizabeth’s journey into STEM and finance   2:05   “I was really born with this innovator bug.”   2:43   “’Listen, when you come here in the morning, you've got to put on your thick skin.’ That is  the lesson…and that's wisdom that has really resonated, if you will, throughout my career.”   3:28   “I learned very much so to focus on what's really happening, and learn to be data driven,         and let the data do the talking. And always be fact, based in decision making.”   Her time at Goldman Sachs and the evolution she saw in the financial industry from a data driven innovation and AI perspective   6:37   “That whole discovery, if you will, of this world of data that can describe not only companies actually, but also how economies are performing…being able to mine the  data in the world that's being made available in an ever increasing rate - that was the ...