About Abraham



Abraham Thomas is a private investor, board member, and advisor to technology companies and investment firms. He’s an expert on data, data assets and data businesses, and he writes the highly-regarded newsletter Pivotal on those topics.

Abraham was previously the co-founder and chief data officer of Quandl, the firm that pioneered “alternative data” for capital markets, now a Nasdaq company. Before Quandl, Abraham was a senior portfolio manager at Simplex Asset Management, one of Asia’s oldest and largest quant hedge funds, where he built one of the industry’s first high-frequency-trading systems.

Abraham has a B. Tech. from IIT Bombay. He lives in Toronto, Canada.



This is the concise professional version of my bio.
You can also read the slightly longer memoir version.