Our Team

Prashant’s mission is to scale human expertise and compound knowledge to make useful predictions about the future. Prior to starting Accrete, he spent over a decade in high frequency trading, consistently producing alpha by finding arbitrage opportunities in the market microstructure. Eventually, Prashant recognized that the digital revolution was causing new types of risks and opportunities.

As a result, Prashant shifted focus to automating cognitive analytical tasks typically performed by human analysts. His early work involved static learning systems. Though not ideal in terms of return on cognitive effort, the first use-case scaled the domain expertise of NYSE brokers and improved the forecasting accuracy of stock predictions at the close of trading, garnering significant attention.

Prashant realized that while deep human expertise requires extensive education and experience, machines struggle with generalization, not specialization. By confining real world problems to specific contexts, dynamic continuous learning systems could reason, understand and learn far more efficiently than human experts.

Accordingly, Prashant and his team set out to scale human expertise and give analysts “super-intelligence”. Prashant launched Accrete to build dynamic continuously learning analytical tools capable of uncovering hidden features in complex data structures to surface predictive insights that would be impossible to identify using traditional intelligence and tools.

Prashant has won an IBM Beacon Award for Best New Application by an Entrepreneur and has been recognized as an IBM Champion as well as an IBM Wild Duck. Prashant was also the first entrepreneur to have been featured in an IBM Watson tv ad campaign and the only one to have demonstrated quantifiable results. He has been invited to present his work as a keynote at several conferences around the world and has been interviewed on Nasdaq, CNBC, Cheddar and Silicon Angle's the Cube. Prashant is a graduate of Hamilton College and lives in Lower Manhattan with his wife and two small children.

With almost 20 years of experience in financial analysis, investment research and portfolio management, Josh has held various senior level positions in the hedge fund industry, where he has been a portfolio manager, Director of Research and analyst. After almost 2 years at Goldman Sachs, Josh was an equity analyst and senior portfolio manager for one of the largest hedge funds in the world, London-based GLG Partners, LP. Josh was also an analyst and portfolio manager at SAC Capital. Josh is currently an investor in and advisor to a portfolio of private companies.

Mayank is a hedge fund veteran and brings two decades of practical experience running organizations to our team. As a former fund manager, he recognized the accelerating need for market participants to adapt traditional methods for extracting alpha to the exponential growth in unstructured data. His desire to help facilitate that change led him to co-found Accrete.

Prior to Accrete, Mayank’s experience includes launching a successful hedge fund focused on global convertible arbitrage, co-managing a convertible bond sales and trading desk for a broker dealer, building and co-managing an Asia-focused capital markets business and managing large arbitrage portfolios for three hedge funds. Mayank began his career at GE Capital where he gained significant financial and operating experience across multiple business lines. Mayank also holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from New York University.

As part of the founding team of Accrete, Adam works with subject matter experts to build ontologies that are used to teach machines how to speak domain specific languages. Adam graduated from Hamilton College and Columbia University.

Dr. Doganata has been conducting research, initiating, developing and delivering projects in broad research areas of computer science for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Accrete.AI, Dr. Doganata has worked as a Research scientist and as a Solutions Technical lead at IBM T. J. Watson Research and IBM Watson Health. His responsibilities included planning, architecting, delivering complex, technology-based, innovative data driven solutions and prototypes using data analytics, information management techniques, NLP, machine learning, predictive modeling and cognitive technologies. His current focus is to extract insight from structured and unstructured data using artificial intelligence to make timely and accurate decisions in financial domain.

As the Chief Technology Officer at Accrete.AI, Dr. Doganata monitors and assesses new technologies as well as existing technology choices, aligns technology based projects with the company strategy, drives innovative solutions for future offerings, improves existing offerings. He also acts as the Chief Innovation Officer to develop and foster innovation culture, manage the innovation process, identify and protect Accrete.AI’s intellectual property.

Dr. Doganata received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, all in electrical/electronics engineering. He has 48 patents, more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and conferences and a number of innovation and excellence awards. He is the recipient of IBM Eminence and Excellence Award in 2014 for his contribution to build an innovation center for a bank in Spain.

Dr. Agarwal is the Director of AI Research at Accrete. His past work used data-driven tools inspired from non-equilibrium Statistical Physics to analyze, model and understand Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Processes. He worked on examining the dynamics and predictability of Arctic sea ice extent from satellite observations, which in turn affects the lives of all living beings through its impact on global climate. This study encompassed combining the concepts of Multifractals, Noise and Chaos to understand the variability of sea ice extent on multiple time scales. In an extension of this, he developed a stochastic model that explains the statistical structure of the very complex and non-linear behavior of Arctic sea ice velocity fields.

Dr. Agarwal received a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Yale University and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Andrés is a trading veteran with 15 years of experience as an active investor across the capital structure. His experience as both a discretionary and quantitative trader gives him a keen understanding of how markets move and where opportunities for cognitive products are greatest. He designed and developed five fully automated black-box trading systems and co-founded Titus Securities which was subsequently acquired by T3 Trading Group in 2011. Andrés is also a graduate of the Wharton School with a degree in economics, entrepreneurship, information systems, and marketing.

Joe is a sales leader who has successfully driven several start ups through high growth phases to liquidity events in both Europe and the US. He is passionate about connecting businesses with useful products and building sales, marketing and customer success teams. Joe is a former equities and derivatives trader with a penchant for the markets and establishing repeatable and scalable processes. Joe holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Williams College and an MBA from the London School of Business and Finance.

As the Head of Business Development, Alex leads initiatives to grow the business, develop new partnerships and build the presence of Accrete. As a strategy and analytics consultant and API Economy researcher at IBM, he gained his background in Fintech and helped enable startups to compete with enterprise companies. Alex also has degrees in Psychology and Markets & Management from Duke University, where he merged his experience together to search for cognitive biases in markets as well as in life.

As Director of Accrete’s R&D in India, Rahul brings an extensive background in data analytics and quantitative trading, rich technical management experience and nearly two decades of programming experience. He works closely with our Lead AI Scientist, Sangram Raje, on our deep learning initiatives and spends most of his time modeling data to find actionable insights.

Prior to his time at Accrete, Rahul spent nearly a decade working closely with our CEO, Prashant Bhuyan, in previous fin tech endeavors. Rahul also spent 3 years at Infosys Technologies Limited as a software engineer in its research department (SETLabs) where he worked on a patent pending EII tool. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology and has been very passionate about markets and investing since a young age.