Ian Watt Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

Building innovative solutions for the firm and its developing market network partners that will seamlessly integrate research with securities trading, utilizing AI and NLP techniques to anticipate and deliver the most useful reports and investment ideas to clients.

London, England, GB

Leading a team of very talented data scientists, engineers, and designers in building an AI-powered document automation solution for financial services.

South Kensington, England, GB

Leveraging data and insights uncovered as the director of technology & research development team to help build macroeconomic research products.- Wrote the suite of analytics queries that underpins company’s understanding of user behaviour.- Reduced user bounce rate by 40% by identifying and eliminating friction points in user experience.- Achieved an.

South Kensington, England, GB

Reoriented four-person development team towards building research-focussed tools for internal and external clients. Conducted fit-gap analysis for sales team to determine where technology improvements, or process/strategy improvements, could be deployed to make the department more efficient and transparent and increase sales.Employed lean project.

South Kensington, England, GB

Responsible for developing and maintaining proprietary quantitative country risk model to assess vulnerabilities and opportunities across DMs, EMs, and Frontier Markets based on national balance sheet economic principles.Help integrate findings of risk model into macrostrategy research and output, including scenario analyses and assessment of asset market.

South Kensington, England, GB

Worked with team responsible for proprietary quantitative country risk model to assess DM/EM/FM country vulnerabilities and opportunities based on national balance sheet economic principles.Developed new measurements of risk for the model, including network analysis tool that highlights first-order and second-order exposure to global macroeconomic shocks &.

Co-Founder of mobile marketing platform used to promote dynamic (demand-based) pricing for small to medium size local retail businesses. Successfully raised seed funding from disparate group of investors in New York and Boston. Led team of developers, and relied on self-taught programming skills in PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript/Ajax, to build beta version.

Worked with, and eventually co-led, Oracle Financials implementation team for a large governmental organization in Puerto Rico. Routinely led meetings with the Director of Finance, Budget Director and client-side project management personnel. Was involved in design, build, test, implement, and support phases of the project. Employed self-taught knowledge.

Msc, International Political Economy

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Ba, Economics