E106 Jeremy Baksht, SVP of Alternative Data at Ascential

Today's guest is Jeremy Baksht, SVP of Alternative Data at Ascential in New York. Jeremy is an experienced capital market professional with twenty years in the industry as an investment banker, business consultant, FinTech entrepreneur and angel investor. Jeremy is currently the global head of alternative data at Ascential, the leading specialist information public company covering the digital economy.

Ascential works with the world’s best consumer brands and their ecosystems, connecting them with their customers throughout the purchase journey. Jeremy leads Ascential’s efforts to sell their offerings to financial services clients. Their team has expertise at pricing, sales and share, and consumer perception in sectors such as apparel, grocery and CPG. Ascential's data sets include several years of history and can be utilized to build robust financial models well beyond those typically available in current investment research.

In the show. Jeremy will discuss:

His background and his current work at Ascential,

Exciting use cases of how they help clients in the consumer space,

Helping clients maximise their data to gain ROI,

The impact of Data Science & Machine Learning at Ascential,

What he loves about working in Alternative Data,

What's in store for the future,

and Top advice on transitioning into a role within Alternative Data