STRATEGIES, TECHNOLOGY
Gautham Sastri
President and CEO,
iSentium, LLC
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About Gautham
Gautham Sastri is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and investor with over 30 years of experience in signal processing, cloud computing, and intelligence gathering. The former COO of SGI, he holds 3 patents and has published 40+ papers on signal processing. Mr. Sastri has a track record of tackling big data problems in areas that range from seismic processing to weather forecasting to large-scale simulations/data analysis for government agencies. He joined iSentium in 2010, having previously founded Terrascale Technologies (acquired by Rackable Systems, now SGI Corp [NASDAQ:SGI]), and Maximum Throughput (acquired by Avid Technology [NASDAQ:AVID]). Subsequent to the acquisition of Terrascale by Rackable, Mr. Sastri was elevated to the position of COO, overseeing a revenue stream of $500MM/annum.He has published numerous technical papers and has been an invited speaker at many conferences. He has co-authored two granted patents in the field of cloud storage, one in the field of sentiment analysis, and has three additional patents pending.
Gautham's Videos
Successful online finance brands such as Stocktwits, Estimize, iSentium, and others have built entire businesses around harnessing the predictive power of the masses to anticipate market trends. In doing so, they had to avoid the many dangers that surround a poorly created index to create something truly valuable. Will investor-sentiment analysis ever become a widely used factor? How has social media changed the available data and has it resulted in more accurate signals or just a lot more noise? Investopedia CEO David Siegel and panelists will explore these questions to help you profit from investor sentiment and avoid its pitfalls.
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