Lunch and Learn with Stuart Cornew T’84
Topics: Big Data / Analytics
Stuart’s experience and history with data is long and varied, including helping to author the original Netflix recommendation engine and advising the Federal Reserve during the housing crisis/market crash a decade ago. Much of the underlying basis of his work is built on information gain theory.
About Stuart Cornew:
AnswerMine LLC is a data-mining and consulting technology company specializing in building forecasting and segmentation models for successful application across a myriad of industry segments. AnswerMine LLC’s proprietary technology supports the AnswerMine Group’s quantitative consulting business.
A successful businessman and banker, Stuart’s professional career includes responsibilities as a principal and Managing Director of Alcomex S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, a leveraged buyout of Mexico’s second largest aluminum extrusion and anodizing plant and as Managing Director of Robert Wooley de Mexico, a developer of two resort hotel properties in Mexico. He was a Vice President in Citibank’s Caribbean, Central and South American Banking Group.
He currently is a director of Ohmx, a surface chemistry proteomics company and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Northwestern University’s Center for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science and BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
