About Abraham
Abraham Thomas is a private investor, board member, and advisor to buy-side investment firms and technology companies. He’s an expert on data advantages, 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, a venture-backed tech startup that pioneered the category of “alternative data” for capital markets. Quandl was acquired by Nasdaq in 2018, in a successful exit.
Before co-founding Quandl, Abraham was a senior portfolio manager, quant trader and research engineer at Simplex Asset Management, one of Japan’s oldest and largest quantitative hedge funds.
Abraham has a B. Tech. from IIT Bombay. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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