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1. 1. Poindexter Systems

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   Published on: 7/12/2006   Last Visited: 10/24/2007

   Andreas Weigend, Former Amazon.com's Chief Scientist, Joins Poindexter Systems.

2. 2. Management Team - Poindexter Systems

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   Published on: 2/26/2006   Last Visited: 2/26/2006

   Andreas Weigend, Chief Scientist As Amazon.com's Chief Scientist, Dr. Andreas Weigend directed research in data mining, statistical learning, and computational marketing. In 1999, he co-founded Moodlogic and built the prototype for the system that was voted "best music organizer" by C|NET in 2003. He also was the Chief Scientist of Shockmarket Corporation, and created information products and trading models based on real-time data from online brokerages, leveraging principles of behavioral finance. He has co-authored six books, including Time Series Prediction (1993) and Computational Finance (1999).
   
   Andreas teaches Data Mining and Electronic Business at Stanford University , and executive courses on e-commerce and quantitative methods. He currently holds academic positions at Stanford University and the University of Washington, in Asia at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the National University of Singapore. Previously, he was full-time faculty at NYU's Stern School of Business and at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studied electrical engineering, physics, and philosophy at Karlsruhe , Cambridge (Trinity College), and Bonn University . He received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University.
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3. 3. BV Capital - Team - Andreas Weigend

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   Published on: 11/7/2006   Last Visited: 11/7/2006

   Andreas Weigend ADMINISTRATION
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   Andreas Weigend
   
   Chief Scientist, US
   
   Andreas is our Chief Scientist and is a worldclass expert in data mining and computational marketing. He provides invaluable technical expertise to help us assess new investments and to advise our portfolio companies on some of their most challenging technical problems.
   
   Andreas helps data-intensive organizations develop strategies based on behavioral analytics and metrics. His clients include leading internet companies such as Yahoo, Alibaba.com and Match.com but also top financial institutions such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Fortune 500 corporations like Siemens and Swiss International Airlines.
   
   As the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, Andreas developed data mining techniques, including session-based marketing, and designed applications ranging from heuristic cross-selling to customer network and life-cycle analysis. He also co-founded MoodLogic, voted "best music organizer" by C|NET. As the Chief Scientist of ShockMarket, he created information products and trading models based on real-time data from online brokerages, leveraging principles of behavioral finance.
   
   Andreas has published more than one hundred scientific papers and co-authored six books. He received an IBM Partnership Award and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He currently teaches the graduate course Data Mining and Electronic Commerce at Stanford University, and the executive course Technology, Information and Innovation in Shanghai.
   
   Andreas studied electrical engineering, physics, and philosophy at Karlsruhe, Cambridge (Trinity College), and Bonn University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in physics in 1991, and was a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and at the Santa Fe Institute. He spends his life between San Francisco and Shanghai and can be contacted at www.weigend.com.
   
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