Stewart V. Wright, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

A commercially focused executive leading the journey from having data to using data to drive valuable decisionsPresident of the Institute of Quantitative Finance (Q Group).Company director and founder of Vifortech Solutions - Creating innovative mathematical models to empower decision making.You have probably been exposed to my work. I and my teams have built, managed and taken to market the following products, all of which are still in use:• Long term (40y) forecasts for all OTC products traded by Westpac Institutional Bank (Australia’s second largest bank)• House price indices used by the Reserve Bank of Australia for every interest rate decision• Automated Valuation Models (AVM) for house price estimation used by all major banks for mortgage lending in Australia, NZ and the UK• Property valuation tool and list of comparable properties used by almost all Valuers and real estate agents in Australia (plus the majority in NZ and the UK)• Automated improved mortgage book stress-testing for banks; improving APRA compliance and reducing riskI'm a senior leader and a quantitative specialist in both real estate and financial marketsMy teams regularly deliver a ROI of greater than 10xI'm a PhD Physicist and MathematicianI'm an experienced modeller and team leader with a love of creating new solutionsSpecialties:• Consulting for Fintech / Proptech / Martech• Management, mentoring and training teams of technical specialists – both within Australia and internationally• Predictive modelling (linear, non-linear and logistic regression; propensity analysis)• AI / ML / data science and data mining (clustering, classification, gradient boosting, NLP, deep learning, etc.)• Real estate and derived asset products; including - Automated Valuation Model (AVM) design and build for real estate - House Price Index production, forecast and simulation• Financial Markets (FM) product pricing & structure; across - FX, commodities, energy, interest rate, equities, inflation and credit• Loss forecasting• Scorecard development and validation• Portfolio segmentation and optimisation• Credit and counterparty credit risk• SMSF investment and retirement income modelling and optimisation

Listed skills include Financial Risk, Quantitative Finance, Financial Markets, Quantitative Analytics, and 16 others.