Siamak (Sammy) Amirghodsi is Vice President, Data Management, for OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization.

Siamak is a world-class senior technology executive leader with anentrepreneurial track record of overseeing big data strategies, cloud transformation, quantitative risk management, advanced analytics, large-scale regulatory data platforming, enterprise architecture, technology road mapping, multi-project execution and organizational streamlining in Fortune 20 environments in a global setting.

He is a hands-on big data, cloud, machine learning and AI expert, and is currently overseeing the large-scale cloud data platforming and advanced risk analytics build-out for a tier-1financial institution in the United States.

Siamak is fully certified on Cloudera’s big data platform and he follows Apache Spark, Tenserflow, Hadoop, Amazon AWS, Cassandra, Neo4j, and GPU architecture while being fully grounded in the traditional IBM/Oracle/Microsoft technology stack for business continuity and integration. His interests include building advanced technical teams, executive management, Spark, Hadoop, big data analytics, AI, deep learning nets, Tensorflow, cognitive models, swarm algorithms, real-time streaming systems, quantum computing, financial risk management, trading signal discovery, econometrics, long-term financial cycles, IoT, blockchain, probabilistic graphical models, cryptography and NLP.

Siamak has a PMPndesignation, and holds an advanced degree in computer science and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an emphasis on strategic management, quantitative finance and econometrics.