Eben Esterhuizen

Co-Founder, CTO

Siftwell

Nov 2022 - Current (3 years 8 months)

Siftwell harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to empower health plans to improve the health of their members through actionable insights. We combine cutting-edge predictive capabilities with deep managed care expertise to drive transformational change in health care delivery, costs, outcomes, and equity.

VP Data Science

Known

Mar 2017 - Nov 2022 (5 years 9 months)

• Worked with a top 3 tech company to oversee the development of a behavioral modeling framework for over 100 million users, quantifying the monetary value of shifting brand attitudes through advertising campaigns. • Oversaw R&D projects that involved developing prototypes for various purposes. These projects included economic valuation of online influencers, automated causal discovery linking ad exposures to future behaviors, and turning transcripts from client interviews into predictive models of future revenues.

Director

ICE

Jun 2014 - Mar 2017 (2 years 10 months)

• Oversee the development of ICE Data Services' Liquidity Indicator, providing algorithmic solutions for global asset managers looking to quantify liquidity risk • Cross asset class and portfolio level liquidity analytics, focusing on corporates, munis, agency debentures, treasuries, CMO, ABS, MBS and global sovereigns • Speaker at financial conferences and industry events • Assist global sales teams with product demos and webinars

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Founder

Contextuall

Mar 2012 - Jan 2017 (4 years 11 months)

• Developed machine learning algorithms for hedge funds, online lenders, publishers, and media buyers • Used open city data sets to develop predictive analytics for Capital Access Network, the largest, non-bank alternative capital provider to small businesses in the United States • Collaborated with publisher SeekingAlpha to analyze the predictive potential of their user behavior • Contracted by Betterment, a robo-adviser, to study their user data and reduce churn

Editor in Chief / Head of Research

Kapitall

Nov 2008 - Jul 2014 (5 years 9 months)

• First employee hired by a company that transformed a video game platform into an online broker • Successfully raised more than $9M from institutional investors • Developed content automation technologies that attracted 1M unique web visitors within 5 months of launching with minimal ad spend • Managed analyst team syndicating reports on SeekingAlpha, TheStreet, Nasdaq and Investopedia • Ranked #1 in terms of page views and revenues earned on SeekingAlpha for 6 straight months • Contracted for 3 years to provide proprietary data feeds based on unstructured web data

Financial News Analyst

Trade The News

Mar 2006 - Oct 2008 (2 years 8 months)

• Radio presenter for financial news analytics service, conducting research for Tier-1 global investment banks and hedge funds • Managed a three-member team in establishing the Asian markets research group from the ground up

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