Symposium Speakers
Rich Brown is Head of Elektron Analytics at Thomson Reuters. In this role, Rich oversees the strategy and financial success of the firm's quantitative trading and historical market and economic data solutions including news, market data capture, trading analytics, visualization and analysis tools. An expert in the machine readable news space, Rich's experience encompasses analysis of unstructured data and natural language processing techniques to uncover alpha generating and risk mitigating strategies.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Rich co-founded and was the Chief Operating Officer at Foresight Research Solutions, LLC, a New York-based independent research firm and member of the NASD and SIPC. Before Foresight, Rich was a senior client manager for IBM in New York. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and International Business from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.