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Jesper Andersen

Jesper Andersen

Freerisk.org

Jesper Andersen is the co-founder of Freerisk and is a statistician, computer scientist and entrepreneur. He’s spoken internationally on finance and statistical systems and is the founder of Freerisk.org, a startup focusing on making providing transparent and diverse financial metrics. Previously he was the lead architect at Visible Path which was sold in 2008.

Jesper holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Haverford College and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where he received the Vijay Vashee “Most Promising Entrepreneur” award in 2008. He can be found wherever statistical uncertainty is a pressing issue.

Sessions

Computing
Location: Imperial Ballroom
Toby Segaran (Metaweb), Jesper Andersen (Freerisk.org)
Financial technology – something we all thought was complete – has been upended. Fundamental assumptions have been exposed as faulty. And now we have the opportunity to recreate our finance industry from the bottom up. We have a choice: a path of openness and information sharing, or more opacity and secrecy. Read more.
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