David K.A. Mordecai has been Appointed as the First Scientist-in-Residence at FinTech Innovation Lab

David K.A. Mordecai has been appointed as the first Scientist-in-Residence for FinTech Innovation Lab (FTIL), an accelerator platform for early and growth stage technology firms, organized by The Partnership Fund for New York City in conjunction with Accenture and a consortium of venture capital firms and global financial institutions.

As the first Scientist-in-Residence, Dr. Mordecai joins the Mentors Network at the FinTech Innovation Lab, which is comprised of seasoned entrepreneurs that have successfully launched and scaled a financial technology company to acquisition or IPO. They act as mentors and informal advisors for companies accepted into the FinTech Innovation Lab, providing guidance on the broad range of issues faced by senior management of fintech companies. The other distinguished Executives-in-Residence are Andy Brown, former group chief technology officer at UBS and Cristobal Conde, former CEO of Sungard.

David Mordecai is Co-Managing Member of Numerati^® Partners, and also advises research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU.

Numerati^® Partners LLC coordinates a data analytics and technology development ecosystem, with the mission of advancing and fostering the next generation of scalable data-intensive risk and liability management enterprises. The firm provides resources fundamental to advancing the development of nascent leading-edge inferential surveillance, monitoring, and predictive analytics technologies for deployment within the RiskTech domain: risk technologies associated with adaptive distributed, networked and embedded systems such as remote sensing, agent-oriented data analytics, computing and control systems. Numerati Partners curates integrated RiskTech solutions as well as forensic and use-case applications in RiskTech sub-domains such as LitTech, RegTech, FinTech and InsurTech (litigation technology, regulation technology, financial technology and insurance technology). For more information, visit https://numeratipartnersllc.com/.

The mission of RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU is to enable, facilitate and coordinate academic research focusing on these patterns and trends, via the development of commercially-viable, analytic applications employing computational statistical tools in conjunction with innovative and non-traditional data structures. In addition, the lab’s activities involve the advancement of applied mathematical statistics and computational economics, through interdisciplinary post-doctoral, postgraduate, graduate research and education in data science and social computing.

RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics was established in 2011 at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of New York University (NYU). Courant is considered to be one of the world’s leading mathematics educational and scientific research centers, and has been ranked first in research in applied mathematics. For more information, visit https://wp.nyu.edu/riskeconlab/.

The Partnership Fund for New York City (PFNYC) was founded by Henry R. Kravis and capitalized by leaders of global business and finance. The mission is to mobilize investors’ resources in order to create a more diversified local economy. PFNYC has established a network of leading experts from the investment and corporate spheres, in order to provide assistance in identifying and supporting New York City’s most promising entrepreneurs, in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.

November 14, 2013 | New York, NY