James P. O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC ("OSV"), an investor in and accelerator of creative endeavors. OSV's mission is to fuel creators in the worlds of art, science and tech with the advice, data and resources they need to stay focused and get great ideas out ...more

James P. O’Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC ("OSV"), an investor in and accelerator of creative endeavors. OSV's mission is to fuel creators in the worlds of art, science and tech with the advice, data and resources they need to stay focused and get great ideas out of their heads, off of their whiteboards and out into the world. He is also the host of the Infinite Loops podcast. Prior to founding OSV, he was the founder and chairman of OSAM, an asset management firm whose Canvas platform allows for custom indexes and portfolios. Prior to OSAM, he was the Director of Systematic Equity for Bear Stearns Asset Management and a Senior Managing Director of the firm. Before joining Bear Stearns in 2001, O’Shaughnessy served as the Chairman and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Capital Management, Inc as well as the founder, chairman and CEO of Netfolio, an online investment advisory firm. O'Shaughnessy is the author of 4 books on investing and his book, "What Works on Wall Street", was a BusinessWeek and New York Times Business bestseller and called “An indisputable classic…Downright momentous” by TheStreet.com. It was called “Strictly top shelf” by Worth magazine and selected as one of the three best investment books by Business 2.0. The Financial Analysts’ Journal said it was “indisputably a major contribution to empirical research on the behavior of common stocks in the United States…conceivably, the influence of What Works on Wall Street will prove immense.” O'Shaughnessy lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife and is the father of three children and grandfather to three as well. He is the former chair of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and currently serves as Executive Chair of Stability.ai, an Artificial Intelligence company headquartered in London, UK.less