Profiting From Data

This episode features an interview with Omri Orgad, Managing Director, North America at Bright Data.

Omri has worked with Bright Data for 7 years, witnessing the evolution of the firm from a startup to over 200 employees today.

On this episode, Omri talks about Brightdata and their focus on publicly available online data. He brings up the challenges to the adoption of alternative data by institutions, as data and technology, as well as legal and compliance are the existing hurdles to faster adoption.

Omri provides advice to senior managers in banking and insurance, saying that firms can’t exist and truly thrive in today’s world without using data and that online data is the best possible resource to break down both value and risk.

Please enjoy this dialogue between Omri and your host, Eagle Alpha’s CEO, Niall Hurley.

This episode is a provocative discussion on the challenges and fallacies within ESG including greenwashing, social washing and measuring true changes without data and transparency as a result of flaws in frameworks and scoring. Hosted by Niall Hurley, CEO, Eagle Alpha.

Hello and welcome to the Profiting from Data podcast.

Today’s episode is a brand-new segment focusing on legal and compliance issues surrounding alternative data. Once a quarter Eagle Alpha’s Director of Data Strategy and Analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha’s client-only monthly Legal Workshops. Here they will reflect on the most pertinent legal and compliance topics that face the alternative data industry.

In this episode, Peter and Ben discuss due diligence questionnaires, materiality and SEC examinations, exploring whether the Reddit versus Wall Street controversy has had an impact on SEC visits. They provide updates from the HiQ versus LinkedIn web-scraping investigation, as well as new developments in The Weather Channel versus The City of Los Angeles geolocation case. Finally, the guests explore changes surrounding data vendors and rejection, and the very topical developments in China surrounding privacy laws, app tracking, and state secrets.

Please enjoy this dialogue between Peter Greene, Ben Kozinn and your host, Ronan Crosson.

Today’s episode features an interview with John Farrall, Co-Founder of 90 West Data.

John has a background in fundamental equity research and following his time at Cleveland Research started 90 West to take customer transaction data to institutional markets. 90 West Data now provides firms with a platform for the tagging, cleansing & contextualization of large data sets making it easy to derive insights from data.

On this episode, John talks about his decision not to sell data to the sell side, the risks of allocating scarce resources when testing a dataset and his experience as an entrepreneur dealing with hot button issues like PII and MNPI. He also talks about the opportunities around streamlining the entire compliance process, data vendor consolidation and the most interesting datasets for institutional investors in 2021.

Please enjoy this dialogue between John and your host, Emmett Kilduff.

This episode features an interview with Jason Hills, Chief Revenue Officer of Facteus. Facteus is a financial data provider within the consumer transaction category of alternative data and he represents the perspective of how data providers view the alternative data industry.

In this episode, Jason discusses Corporate, Private Equity and buyside applications of alternative data and emerging use trends. He also reviews use cases on stimulus spending resulting from the pandemic and top predictions for 2021 including broader usage of external data in the corporate market.

This episode features an interview with Sylvain Forte, CEO of SESAMm, an innovative FinTech company specializing in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for investment.

Sylvain discusses his start with alternative data and Sesamm’s textual data, NLP, for ESG scoring with it’s growth and challenges. He also takes a deep dive into the importance of data for risk management, specifically for Private Equity firms, his thoughts on alpha decay and much more.

Today’s episode features an interview with Ben Zweig, CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company indexing hundreds of millions of public employment records to create the first universal HR Database.

On this episode, Ben discusses workforce data that is growing with culture scoring and covid adaptability metrics for the buyside, private equity, corporates and government. He also lends his voice to the challenge of blending datasets, nuances of public profile data, forward looking predictions and much more.

Today’s episode features an interview with Neil Seeman, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Privacy Officer and Chairman of RIWI Corp. He leads overall Company strategy and RIWI's work in global public health security - and in data solutions to assess, predict, prevent and eradicate violent extremism.

On this episode, Neil talks about data in the information ecosystem, covid issues in regards to mental health, vaccines and quiet voices to understand current issues. Neil also discusses global macro trends to data, buyside/private equity and corporate uses, spicy chicken, and future data growth.

Please enjoy this dialogue between Neil and your host, Emmett Kilduff.

Today’s episode features an interview with Neil Seeman, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Privacy Officer and Chairman of RIWI Corp. He leads overall Company strategy and RIWI's work in global public health security - and in data solutions to assess, predict, prevent and eradicate violent extremism.

On this episode, Neil talks about data in the information ecosystem, covid issues in regards to mental health, vaccines and quiet voices to understand current issues. Neil also discusses global macro trends to data, buyside/private equity and corporate uses, spicy chicken, and future data growth.

Please enjoy this dialogue between Neil and your host, Emmett Kilduff.

Today’s episode features an interview with Neil Hampson, Partner at Strategy&, part of the PwC network.

Neil is an advisor to executives and investors in tech and industrial businesses and specializes in strategy development, value creation and M&A. Neil is also a member of PwC’s global Technology Leadership team.

On this episode, Neil talks about companies using and gaining an advantage out of external data, challenges to adoption, use cases including corporates use of data across different divisions and departments, as well as PE firms using data to get an edge.

Please enjoy this dialogue between Neil and your host, Emmett Kilduff.