Urvin Finance has built the only fully-integrated social platform offering individual investors access to professional-quality data, tools and education in a collaborative community environment. We empower retail investors, with a focus on responsible investing and long-term wealth creation. I ...more

Urvin Finance has built the only fully-integrated social platform offering individual investors access to professional-quality data, tools and education in a collaborative community environment. We empower retail investors, with a focus on responsible investing and long-term wealth creation. I also continue to advocate for important market structure reforms with a focus on making markets simpler, more transparent, and with a goal of operating in investors' best interests. My previous experience was primarily focused on helping companies solve problems, often leveraging technology and data. Urvin AI focuses on making sense of unstructured data, where we have created innovative new approaches and technologies. We work across industries, including Financial Services, Automotive, Aerospace, Legal and Compliance. Before Urvin, my previous work focused on big data analytics in financial services, including working with large asset managers to better understand implicit and explicit costs of order routing decisions, working with market centers to measure and improve execution quality and working with broker/dealers to optimize algorithmic order routing strategies. I've testified before the Senate Banking Committee twice, and before the SEC, CFTC and OSC discussing high-frequency trading and the implications of technology on modern market microstructure. I've been profiled in the Wall St. Journal and on CNN, and have been quoted in the WSJ, CNN, The New York Times, CBS MarketWatch and many other publications. I'm available for speaking engagements (private and conferences) and Expert Witness testimony / reports. My background is highly technical, having spent much of my career working with high-performance application teams to design scalable, supportable systems. Skills include server and network administration, as well as programming in Java, C, C++, Scala, PHP and Python, and database administration primarily in MySQL. Scientific programming and research includes R, Octave and Matlab.less