BOREALIS GLOBAL ANALYTICS - Key Persons
Bud Aiken, CFO, brings with him to Borealis years of invaluable experience across multiple industries. From coatings to chemicals and textiles, there isn't much Bud hasn't seen. Furthermore, Bud has experience consulting with multiple startups in addition to serving as fractional CFO. These startups include drones, marketing, and healthcare technology.
Prior to his industry experience, Bud received his Masters in International Business Studies from University of South Carolina and graduated cum laude from Davidson College.
Bud Aiken, CFO, brings with him to Borealis years of invaluable experience across multiple industries. From coatings to chemicals and textiles, there isn't much Bud hasn't seen. Furthermore, Bud has experience consulting with multiple startups in addition to serving as fractional CFO. These startups include drones, marketing, and healthcare technology.
Prior to his industry experience, Bud received his Masters in International Business Studies from University of South Carolina and graduated cum laude from Davidson College.
Job Titles:
- Advisor on Country Selection Research
- Associate Professor at the Montpellier Business School
Adam Zaremba is an Associate Professor at the Montpellier Business School in France. He previously served as Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Dubai in the UAE and at Poznan University of Economics and Business in Poland. His research interests include asset pricing, investments, and financial markets. He graduated from the Poznan University of Economics and Business and has researched, trained, and lectured at numerous prestigious institutions around the world. He has also worked in the business world as an economist, adviser, and portfolio manager for various investment management companies. Adam has written a myriad of research papers and several books on financial markets.
Job Titles:
- Advisor on Corporate / Business Development
- Director of the University of South Carolina 's McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism
Dirk Brown is the faculty director of the University of South Carolina's McNair Institute for Entrepreneurism and Free Enterprise and a clinical assistant professor of international business at the Darla Moore School of Business. Brown is a seasoned executive with a strong track record of developing, marketing and licensing disruptive proprietary technologies. He is the founding CEO of Pandoodle Corporation, a digital media technology company with offices in California, New York, and South Carolina. Previously, he was CEO of Neoconix, a venture capital-funded electronics technology company serving Fortune 100 customers with worldwide sales and manufacturing.
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer, Head of Dashboard Environment and Natural Language Processing
Eric Cheng graduated from New York University (NYU) in 2020 with two Bachelors, one in Mathematics and another in Computer Science. During his time at NYU, he engaged in a variety of courses ranging from the mathematical in number theory and differential equations, to the technical in parallel computing and machine learning. He has successfully applied many of these concepts to his time at Borealis and hopes to further his education in the future.
Job Titles:
- Data Scientist
- Data Scientist, Head of Factor Data Engine and Machine Learning
Jack Heller is an experienced data scientist with specialties in machine learning and big data platforms. He is skilled with Python, Java, R, SAS, SQL, and various AWS products. He has proven expertise in data analysis and gleaning insights using both statistical and machine learning techniques with applications in economic modeling, anomaly detection, and regression in graph neural networks. He graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering and is currently pursuing a Master of Statistics and Data Science at KU Leuven in Belgium.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Founder
- Founder of Borealis Global Advisory and the Pioneer of the Medium - Term Country Yield Forecast
Sailesh S. Radha is the founder of Borealis Global Advisory and the pioneer of the Medium-Term Country Yield Forecast (CY-M), a sophisticated yield measure developed from a modified application of Shiller's PE in international settings. He independently authored "A Prognostic Yield Measure for Country Selection in the Medium-Term" and "Using Shiller's PE Using CAPE to Forecast Country Returns for Designing an International Country Rotation Portfolio", which were published in the Journal of Index Investing and Journal of Portfolio Management, respectively. A key player during the European debt crises, Sailesh worked with Yardeni Research Inc. to develop advanced analytics, tools, and erudition to evaluate the government balance sheets of the enormously debt-ridden Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain that were on the brink of default bringing into prominence the GIIPS countries.
Job Titles:
- Senior Software Engineer
- Advisor on Data Visualization
Vaibhav Shah is an experienced senior software engineer with a demonstrated history of working with front-end, back-end, and big data technologies. He is skilled in J2EE, HTML/CSS, Angular, D3.js, Spring Framework, MongoDB, and AWS. Vaibhav has hands-on experience building real-time pipelines using Apache Spark (via Databricks). He has worked on AWS products like Redshift, Athena, S3, and Lambda. He graduated from the University of Mumbai with a Bachelor of Engineering focused in Computer Engineering.