Dr. Duru Ahanotu is a graduate of Stanford University with over twenty-five years of experience doing analytic modeling, executing pricing strategies through price optimization, and implementing, developing, and selling enterprise software. He adds to this industry experience another five ...
more Dr. Duru Ahanotu is a graduate of Stanford University with over twenty-five years of experience doing analytic modeling, executing pricing strategies through price optimization, and implementing, developing, and selling enterprise software. He adds to this industry experience another five overlapping years of research in knowledge management and organizational learning. Duru Ahanotu, Ph.D. founded Ahan Analytics, LLC (Ahan is pronounced "Ah-hon") to deliver sustainable, data-driven approaches for improving business performance. He recognizes the unique challenges companies face in leveraging their data to increase revenues, become more efficient, and drive profitability. Before launching Ahan Analytics, LLC, Dr. Ahanotu was last a Sales Consultant in the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) group within Microsoft Advertising. In this capacity, he provided product knowledge, functional expertise, and technical support to APS account executives who sold APS’s suite of media monetization products. He led product demonstrations and increased the productivity of the sales team by training and certifying employees on the use and demonstration of the software. Dr. Ahanotu took on this role after Microsoft acquired his former employer Rapt, Inc. Rapt provided software solutions for maximizing revenue and yield for online media publishers. With Rapt, Dr. Ahanotu last served as an Engagement Manager for a software implementation for a $100 million on-line publisher with a rapidly growing business. With his project team, Dr. Ahanotu created and coordinated novel approaches to inventory forecasting, structuring of product hierarchies, and ETL across software systems for order management, advertising delivery, and Rapt’s software. He also generated a step-by-step methodology for interpreting and using the results of price optimization. As a Solutions Architect, Dr. Ahanotu served as the lead Solutions Consultant on client engagements and provided technical assistance and guidance to Solutions Consultants on other projects. Dr. Ahanotu designed and implemented price optimization solutions, demonstrating expertise in mathematical modeling, pricing, data analysis, SQL, and relational data models. He led discussions with customers and internal teams to improve implementation processes and product design. Dr. Ahanotu held oversight responsibility for the analytic modeling for two projects using Price Director, Rapt’s price optimization software. Each project supported pricing decisions in Fortune 50 businesses: one business was a leading online media publisher, and the other was a rapidly growing technology company in a low margin business. Dr. Ahanotu helped the latter client integrate Price Director into pricing workflow. As part of this first-ever client implementation of Price Director, he worked closely with Product Management, Analytic Development, and Software Engineering to ensure that early-stage product functionality met client needs. Dr. Ahanotu contributed several new methodologies for implementing Price Director analytics and conceptual frameworks for training clients on these analytics. He is a contributor on a related Rapt patent: “Method and System for Producing Optimized Prices for Products for Sale.” Dr. Ahanotu presented a white paper on the pricing of New Product Introductions at the 2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The Professional Pricing Society published this paper in The Journal of Professional Pricing (Vol. 16, No. 1, First Quarter 2007) as “Pricing New Products: Turning Portfolio Uncertainty Into Profits.” Prior to Rapt, Dr. Ahanotu was a consultant with Integral, Inc, a small strategic management consulting firm. During his three-year tenure, he consulted on product development and technology strategy focused on high tech and pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Integral, he developed mathematical programming algorithms for managing and optimizing “Y2K” projects as an independent contractor. Prior to this work, he implemented expert systems for diagnosing and troubleshooting automotive and semiconductor manufacturing equipment as a Business Solutions Project Manager and Consultant for Expert Edge, Inc. Dr. Ahanotu earned a Master’s and Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems (1999), a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and Honors in Values, Technology, Science, and Society (1991) - all at Stanford University.
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The Canadian Dollar’s Rapid Devaluation: A Precarious Predicament For The Bank Of Canada
Setting rates by inflation expectations is a well-formed theory in monetary policy now. I think it was born out of the uncontrolled inflation of the 70s. It has not been tested much because inflation since then has been on a secular downtrend in developed economies. This is the theory that partly allowed the Fed to finally deliver a rate hike even though current inflation is comotose. The Banks like to talk about getting ahead of these expectations. So, theoretically, if they are executing, we will never see inflation expectations get out of hand.
Regardless, when it comes to trading, theory matters much less than the market's actual responses to drivers. So far, the market's response is consistent with a receding belief in imminent rate cuts. And more rate cuts seem highly unlikely given the Bank's commentary. I will be interested to see how the Bank's thread continues to evolve.
The Canadian Dollar’s Rapid Devaluation: A Precarious Predicament For The Bank Of Canada
Are you talking about Canada's housing bubble? At least in the big cities. The Bank has consistently pointed out the rising imbalances due to rising debt. The Bank keeps talking like it has this rise under control. Time will tell.
The Canadian Dollar’s Rapid Devaluation: A Precarious Predicament For The Bank Of Canada
It is a nuanced concern that is looking out to a chained set of events. Note that Poloz is clear in saying there is no inflation problem at the moment. BUT, the the BOC is worried that if the Canadian dollar depreciates too fast, the resulting contribution to inflation could happen so fast that it convinces people to increase their inflation expectations past the comfort zone. Finally, those increased expectations will start to feed into actual inflation. In other words, there is nothing for the BOC to work against, but this potential is enough to constrain monetary policy given more and more easing will likely contribute to this breakneck pace of devaluation.
T2108 Update – A Convergence Of Indicators May Signal A Firming Market
You know me. I take the market one step at a time. Let's see how "healthy" the breakout is if we get it.
T2108 Update – The S&P 500 Makes A Reverse Power Move
That's an excellent bullet point summary!
I am also noting that TalkMarkets is not including the background info on what the T2108 indicator is all about. Interested readers can find the info on any of the T2108 Update posts on my own blog: http://drduru.com/onetwentytwo/tag/t2108/
T2108 Upate – A Deceptively Calm Market Day
Well, thanks for reading!
T2108 Update – From The Edge Of A Breakout To The Ledge Of A Breakdown
What is the pattern you have observed to suggest contrarianism is the way to go with the T2108 Update?
T2108 Update – From The Edge Of A Breakout To The Ledge Of A Breakdown
Thanks for the kudos.
T2108 Update – Another Oversold Period Ends As Volatility Continues Pre-Fed Decline
The September rate wrangling is so, so....last flash crash! ;)
Whatever Happened To Optimism ?
Thanks for the sunshine. :) I will quibble just a bit with the fund flow info. At the recent lows, Pisani on CNBC reported a massive surge in redemption orders at the close. THAT could have been the purge of sellers. But time will tell. I also keep seeing headlines about big fund flows OUT of ETFs and mutual funds. But I think outflows supports your contrarian thesis better than inflows. I think it is just human nature to want to chase stocks higher rather than buy them at a discount.