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Alon Bochman
AI for Investors. Ex-Google, Ex-Microsoft. Kaggle Master (Top 1%)
Product leader with fintech and adtech background, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft. Co-founded and sold a software company to Thomson Reuters for $30M, grew an AI consulting practice from 0 to >$1Bn in 4 years. 20-year AI veteran, winner of three medals in model-building competitions. In a prior life, was a top-performing hedge fund portfolio manager.
I live near NYC with my wife and two daughters. I’m an avid reader, runner and tennis player, an amateur piano player and a retired chess player.
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Work
Artificial Intelligence | AI Technology Solutions | FactSet
https://www.factset.com/aiMy team built FactSet Mercury, the leading copilot for finance professionals. See video demo at link below.
Experience
Stealth Startup
Co-founder and advisor of a stealth Generative AI start-up
Mar 2023 - Present
Stealth mode
- Stealth mode
Techstars
Mentor
Feb 2023 - Present
The worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.
- Coaching top NYC enterpreneurs
FactSet
Head of AI
May 2023 - Nov 2023
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
- Managing >60 AI/ML engineers and product managers responsible for the firm’s comprehensive AI transformation.
- Driving AI strategy and execution across internal (cost takeout) and external (product development, M&A) initiatives.
- Advising CEO, marketing, sales, legal, risk, investor relations, and HR teams on AI positioning and use cases.
- Established intake and prioritization framework that raised aligned project portfolio value from $25k to >$50M/year.
Google
Head of Privacy, Transparency & Compliance, YouTube Ads
May 2022 - Apr 2023
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh
- Responsible for all privacy, transparency and compliance efforts for YouTube Ads (>200 engineers) for >100 regulations globally, preventing penalties of >$xxB while minimizing revenue impact.
Microsoft
Principal Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning
Jan 2021 - May 2022
We’re on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
- Pytorch ecosystem on Azure
- Earlier: AutoML, Responsible AI, Labeling in the Azure ML Studio
Genpact
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence
Mar 2016 - Jan 2021
- Driving competitive advantage for Fortune 500 firms through meaningful, self-funding AI transformation
SC Fundamental LLC
Portfolio Manager
Mar 2010 - Mar 2012
Value oriented investment partnership
- Managed equity portfolio for value-oriented hedge fund established in 1990.
- Beat benchmark by >25% in two years, after fees, with lower volatility.
- Performance in top 2% of peer group.
Inductis, Inc.
Engagement Manager
Jan 2007 - May 2008
Inductis, an EXL Company, is a global professional services firm that helps large companies leverage the information age to make data-driven decisions through deep analytics. Inductis is a fully-owned but independently branded subsidiary of ExlService Holdings, Inc. and is headquartered at New Providence, NJ, United States. Inductis has a strong track record of helping leading companies strengthen their businesses with its unique mix of insightful strategy consulting, state-of the-science analytical capabilities and infrastructure, and dual-shore delivery model. Inductis is derived from inductive logic – proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion – and from the Latin induco: to bring forward, to induce, to lead. We specialize in identifying high-impact problems and opportunities where we can generate results quickly, creating immediate and lasting value. We focus on value creation through our two practice areas: Management Consulting and Analytics Services. Our geographic spread across USA, India and Singapore enables us to work towards delivering high-end analytical solutions and services in a cost effective manner.
- Boutique strategy consulting firm acquired by EXL Service (NASDAQ: EXLS) in 2007.
Inductis, Inc.
Associate
Apr 2004 - Dec 2006
Inductis, an EXL Company, is a global professional services firm that helps large companies leverage the information age to make data-driven decisions through deep analytics. Inductis is a fully-owned but independently branded subsidiary of ExlService Holdings, Inc. and is headquartered at New Providence, NJ, United States. Inductis has a strong track record of helping leading companies strengthen their businesses with its unique mix of insightful strategy consulting, state-of the-science analytical capabilities and infrastructure, and dual-shore delivery model. Inductis is derived from inductive logic – proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion – and from the Latin induco: to bring forward, to induce, to lead. We specialize in identifying high-impact problems and opportunities where we can generate results quickly, creating immediate and lasting value. We focus on value creation through our two practice areas: Management Consulting and Analytics Services. Our geographic spread across USA, India and Singapore enables us to work towards delivering high-end analytical solutions and services in a cost effective manner.
- Acknowledged by clients as the firm’s primary mortgage industry SME.
- Led an international team that implemented statistical risk management models for a leading commercial insurer, delivering $10M in savings per year.
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