Founded in 2011, Social Market Analytics, Inc. has been in Warehousing, Normalizing, and Productizing Data since our predecessor firm Quantitative Analytics, Inc. (QA Direct) was acquired by Thomson Reuters. SMA’s team has both Financial and FinTech background
CEO and Co-Founder
Joe is a pioneer in the emergence and growth of quantitative trading systems. Prior to launching Social Market Analytics, Inc. (SMA), he co-founded Quantitative Analytics, Inc. (QA Direct), a market-leading provider of integrated database solutions for quantitative researchers and traders
CTO
Umair joined from Thomson Reuters and brings extensive experience in developing Financial Applications across various platforms and design architectures. Umair’s work focuses on large scale Server Applications and the development of SMA’s Intellectual Property
CFO
Kim holds SMA accountable to shareholders and manages the company’s financial operation. Kim has a B.S. from Indiana University and an MBA from University of Chicago. Kim has worked at Continental Bank, First Chicago, Bank of Montreal, and JP Morgan as a credit analyst and in derivatives
CRO and Managing Director, Sales
Doug has spent his career in investment bank investor services prime finance and futures focused on global equities and fixed income having lived in Chicago, London, and Tokyo. Doug brings a Trading and CRM focus to SMA’s data and its global growth in both alternative and traditional data