About Us
The Leadership
Meet the Team Shaping our Machine Learning Software
Dr. Ernest P. Chan, CEO
Ernie is a noted quantitative hedge fund manager and quant finance author. Previously he has applied his expertise in machine learning at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center’s Human Language Technologies group, at Morgan Stanley’s Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence Group, and at Credit Suisse’s Horizon Trading Group. His papers and talks can be found at www.predictnow.ai/resources/.
Erik MacDonald, Head of Business Development
Erik is an MBA candidate at DeGroote School of Business specializing in Business Analytics. Previously, he received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Sudarshan Sawal, Product Manager
Sudarshan is working as a Product Manager at PredictNow.ai while pursuing MSc in Economics and BE in Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani Goa, India. He is responsible for managing a team of developers to maintain and provide new functionalities. He specializes in quantitative finance and financial machine learning.
Jessica Watson, Head of Design
Jessica received her degree in New Media from Ryerson University’s RTA School of Media in Toronto, Ontario. As Head of Design, she is in charge of content creation, copy editing, web development and all digital design for PredictNow.ai
Akshay Nautiyal, Head of Data Science
Akshay has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, a diploma in AI, and is a CFA Candidate. He has worked in a systems engineering firm, academia ( published in ML/NLP), a financial ed firm and an asset management firm. His passions include Global Macro and Quant Finance.
Sergei Belov, Head of Research
Sergei has spent more than 10 years in quant finance and portfolio management at Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg, and BNP Paribas. His experience is in engineering and onboarding services for clients. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at MIT and is also a Harvard University Fellow.
Quentin Viville, Quantitative Researcher
Quentin’s specialities lie in quantitative research and machine Learning. He achieved his Masters of Mathematics at UPMC in France before going on to earn his Ph.D. of Mathematics at Bordeaux University in France.
The Advisors
André Boeder
André is a German FinTech serial-entrepreneur. He was the founder of an online payment gateway company which was sold to MasterCard in 2010. As part of the acquisition, André became the Managing Director of MasterCard’s Payment Gateway Service business in Continental Europe. He later went on to found an online payment guarantee business, using artificial intelligence techniques to offer payment guarantees to merchants. It was sold to Verifone in 2017 and André became Managing Director of Verifone’s payment guarantee and mobile payment business. He is currently the founder and Managing Director of Deltaventure, an M&A, investment and consulting company, as well as AlphaQuant Capital, a developer of algorithmic trading models.
Dr. Roger Hunter
Roger is the founder and former CEO of a scientific software firm that was acquired by Thomson Reuters. His firm’s software is currently in use at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Roger was formerly professor of mathematics at New Mexico State University, and he obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Australian National University. Roger has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek article.
Crispin Clarke
Crispin is a respected C-suite global executive who has built and run businesses in Asia, Europe and North America. Crispin is the founder of DLTadvisory.io, a consulting company which advises start-ups in bootstrapping businesses utilizing Blockchain and AI. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of Europe at Solace, a leading Canadian SaaS provider, and has served as Vice President at Teknekron Software Systems (TIBCO), an early enterprise technology pioneer that digitized Wall Street and had a successful Nasdaq IPO.
