Hugh Lagan Crowther has extensive experience from the Buy, Sell, Vendor and Academic sides of the investment business.
He is representing and selling machine learning based news sentiment for Alexandria Investment Research and Technology. www.alexability.com
Hugh is Principal of Crowther Investment where he is performing quantitative research, building and managing portfolio analytics, systems and models; creating training and education; evaluating, acquiring, integrating research and investment technology for asset management and vendor consulting clients. Prior to consulting, he developed and managed international portfolio analytics, risk management systems for Fidelity Management & Research. Before that he built and led the Quantitative Investment Research Systems group at Kidder, Peabody & Co. (now UBS). He began his investment career at Value Line, where he managed and marketed the Institutional Quantitative Equity Research business.
His professional and academic affiliations include:
Steerage Committee Member, Manager and Treasurer: Boston Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education & Wisdom QWAFAFEW
Founder: Investment Technology Education Committee; Member, former Chair: Quantitative Program Committee, Boston Security Analysts Society BSAS (Boston CFA Institute)
Member: CFA Institute CFA I, BEC, Boston Market Technicians Association MTA, Professional Risk Managers' International Association PRMIA, and Global Association of Risk Professionals GARP, Boston R Users Group.
Hugh holds a BSBA (Finance / Spanish) from the University of Denver, an MS (Management Engineering) and an MBA (International Business) from the University of Bridgeport.
