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 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.

Today’s episode features an interview with Sam Livingstone, Head of Data Science at Jupiter Asset Management.

Sam has built the team to six FTEs comprising of both Data Scientists and Data Engineers. Sam and his team implemented a Data Science Studio Platform and built out an Azure cloud stack at Jupiter.

On this episode, Sam talks about use cases, long-only vs. intraday strategy, geo-location, ESG and web crawled data uses, focus on US election data as well as data that corporates are using today. He also discusses blending datasets and his predictions.

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Today’s episode features and interview with Matthew Glickman, VP Data Marketplace, Consumer Product Strategy at Snowflake.

Matt came to Snowflake after Goldman Sachs and has been with the company for over 5 years. At Snowflake, Matt helps to shape a world-class product to empower enterprises to embrace the Data Cloud. In addition, he helps them connect to each other over their cross-cloud data marketplace.

On this episode, Matt talks about how different verticals are adopting and using alternative data including corporate, hedge funds, private equity and VCs. He also discusses the issues of exhaust data, symbology of mapping for the industry, uses cases and much more.

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

Today’s episode features an interview with Toby Dayton, President & CEO at LinkUp.

Toby is one of the veterans of the alternative data industry having started his company 20 years ago.

On this episode Toby talks about the history of his business, the leading attributes of successful vendors, how his clients use employment data, lessons learned over the years, future predictions and much more.

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This episode features an interview with Berowne Hlavaty, Senior Quant Analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Berowne has 20 plus years of quantitative, machine learning and data analytics experience.

On this episode Berowne talks about how asset managers, PE firms, corporates and governments are using data. He also discusses natural language processing, his predictions for the future and much more.

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This episode features an interview with Bill Pecoriello, Founder & CEO of Consumer Edge.

Bill was one of founders of Morgan Stanley's Alphawise data offering over 15 years ago. His company, Consumer Edge, enables its clients to obtain insights about the consumer from consumer transaction data.

On this episode Bill talks about how far the alternative data industry has come over the last 5-10 years, use cases of government, corporates, PE and asset managers. Plus, his predictions for the future and much more.

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Today’s episode features an interview with Jake Graham, Principal PM at Azure Data within Microsoft.

Jake is involved in several interesting data projects and iniviatives at Microsoft.

On this episode Jake talks about trends regading data marketplaces in the cloud, Amazon and Snowflakes data marketplaces, use cases, future predictions and much more.

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