Prashant’s mission is to scale human expertise through the automation of specialized analytical work. Prior to starting Accrete, he spent over a decade automating manual order processing tasks in the domain of 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 information processing inefficiencies.
As a result, Prashant shifted focus to automating cognitive tasks typically performed by human analysts. His early work involved static learning systems. The first use-case applied basic natural language processing to curated imbalance indications collected by NYSE brokers using voice recognition and improved the forecasting accuracy of stock predictions at the close of trading, garnering significant attention.
Since then, Prashant has been working on a variety of approaches to overcome sparse training data challenges to develop dynamic learning models. Prashant launched Accrete to build and apply dynamic continuously learning analytical tools capable of uncovering hidden features in complex unstructured datasets to surface predictive insights that would be impossible for human experts 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 at several conferences around the world including various JP Morgan and IBM conferences 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.
As an AI Scientist, Daniel works on research and development of cutting-edge, AI-driven investment technologies. Prior to Accrete.AI, Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Teradata, where he tested and developed machine learning functions on a massively parallel processing architecture. He believes there is great value in the application of bias-reducing machine learning techniques to the development of effective technologies for modern, data-driven capital markets.
Daniel graduated from Princeton University in 2015 with a B.S.E in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. During his undergraduate career, he worked on a variety of cross-cutting projects in the robotics, fluid-dynamics, and thermodynamics fields. He is also an accomplished guitarist, and an avid snowboarder.
Vaibhav Krishan completed his graduation from IIT Bombay in 2013, with a degree in Computer Science and Engg. Since then, he has worked as a quantitative trader with AlphaGrep Securities and as a data scientist with Housing.com. He likes listening and playing music. He is deeply passionate about food and loves to try out different cuisines. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, specialising in Machine Learning, from IIT Bombay.
Sangram graduated from IIT Bombay in 2008 with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. Subsequently, he worked with Tower Research Capital, a large prop-trading firm as a member of a trading team. There he developed and managed several profitable trading strategies that were deployed in various markets worldwide. After a stint of almost 9 years, he has chosen to go on his own and build a team that specializes in solving challenging problems in the machine learning and data science field - with applications primarily in finance, but he is very keen to explore other areas too. He is based out of Mumbai and in his free time enjoys playing sports, going on hikes and having board game nights!
Kiran is a full-stack developer, currently leading development and implementation on a variety of our product suites. With a Masters degree in Computer Science from Mumbai University and more than two decades of programming experience, he has a comprehensive understanding of the Fintech domain and has worked extensively on Watson APIs. Kiran is also proficient in multiple programming languages (Java, C++, .NET, etc).
Abhishek Kumar is a highly motivated full stack engineer with over a decade of successful contribution in architecture, design, and implementation of products in varied domains. He also actively participates in developing the future roadmap for the products based on the requirements. He has the ability to understand complex requirements and break them down into simple implementable tasks. He also mentors other developers and is the go-to person for troubleshooting development issues.
Abhishek specializes in software development using Java technologies has good exposure to Angular and other frontend frameworks. He is certified from CDAC (formerly NCST) Mumbai. He also holds a Master in Computer Application (MCA) degree from IGNOU, New Delhi.
Arjun is currently working on developing the user interfaces of each of our product suites and helps bring our products to life. He is proficient in HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS, Node.js, AngularJS, and many more. Arjun also holds a Computer Science degree from Rajasthan University and possesses a decade of programming experience.
Rohit brings a decade of backend development experience to our Accrete team. He has deep knowledge of Core Java and assists Kiran, our lead developer, and Rahul Jindal, Head of Research and Analytics, in advancing the product development life cycle. Rohit also holds a Computer Science degree from Rajasthan University.
Junyu is a user experience designer with a background in digital media and human-computer interaction. He explores the fields of design, technology, and behavioral science to apply interdisciplinary perspectives to design products that are useful, intuitive, and influential.
Junyu recently finished his master's program in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked on design tools for adaptive user interfaces, data-informed calculus learning experience, interactive machine learning web application, assistive robot for seniors, etc.
Ieshaan currently serves as the Visual Designer at Accrete. He specializes in 3D Animation and Visual Effects and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a BFA in Digital Arts.
As the Director of Operations at Accrete, Alex helps spearhead resource optimization and process management at Accrete, ensuring operational efficiency across company departments, globally.
A scholar of business operations and management, he graduated with his degree in Business from Furman University. Alex also enjoys reading, playing poker, chess, tennis and golf.
Richard is a technology sales expert. Having worked with over 80 technology companies from across the globe, he has nurtured key relationships and engendered strategic partnerships that have led to significant revenue growth.
His passion for lead generation and enterprise sales has resulted in a deep understanding of customers' needs and a desire to deliver meaningful solutions that match his customers' requirements.
Richard has an extensive background in corporate banking and has a Business Degree from the University of Limerick, specializing in Risk Analysis.
James Tannahill previously worked in Equity Research focused on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology where he aided in coverage of over 90 healthcare companies on Wall Street. He began his career as a clinical biochemist in development of the first curative treatment for smell and taste loss. Previously, he spent time designing, conducting, and analyzing projects in the field of medicinal and natural products chemistry with a focus on validating naturally-derived compounds as therapeutics against cancer.
James earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Denison University, a M.S. in Biotechnology from the University of Essex, and earning a Masters of Biotechnology Enterprise (MBE) from Johns Hopkins University. His passion may be found at the intersection of finance, biological science, and technology.
