Jordan Alexander Hauer
Born: July 17, 1986
Home: New York, NY
Citizenship: US & Australia
Email: jahauer (at) gmail
Phone & Address: email me and I'll share
Overview
Objective
To obtain a management role at an established, growing asset manager, leading the fund’s data, alternative data, data strategy, data sourcing and/or data procurement.
Data Leader
- Dynamic leader & entrepreneur in the alternative data & hedge fund industry, with 20+ years of technical experience in quantitative research & analysis.
- Proven track record in generating alpha for asset managers through integrating innovative data, research and analytics, at scale.
- Forged relationships & partnerships with innumerable data vendors & asset managers.
Core Competencies
- Alternative Data in Investing
- Data Strategy, Management, Monetization, Sourcing & Procurement
- Building & Leading Crossover Business + Technical/Data Teams
- Regulatory & Data Compliance
Professional Experience
Founder & CEO of Amass Insights LLC
May 2015 - Present | New York, NY
- Sourced & profiled 23,000+ data providers and forged relationships with 1,000+.
- Contracted by numerous leading institutional investors to source, research and lead them to datasets of use in their investment strategies. Offered bespoke or subscription services intended to multiply the capabilities & efficiencies of these funds' data sourcing teams. Clients include:
- The largest multistrategy hedge fund.
- 3 of the largest quant hedge funds.
- The 6th largest pension fund.
- The largest macro hedge fund.
- First subscriber to a new content product, launched in 2024.
- A leading bulge bracket bank.
- Featured at two private events, in NYC & London, hosted by this bank on my behalf (more about this below).
- Bought data from us through one of our data provider partners.
- Commissioned to research the pricing and competitive conditions in the market for transactional data.
- Negotiated reseller partnerships to generate revenue from 25+ companies' unique data assets.
Co-Founder & Head of Data at Big Data Protocol (BDP)
Nov 2020 - Jul 2023 | New York, NY
- Co-founded, conceived & ran everything data-related at a novel crypto-enabled data marketplace.
- $6+ billion dollar-equivalent was staked in BDP's token after launch, briefly becoming the biggest De-Fi protocol in the world.
- Accumulated $120+ million of market cap for BDP's token shortly after staking period ended, in Apr 2021.
- Apportioned several million tokens in compensation for negotiating & announcing 40+ data provider marketing & distribution partnerships.
IT Consultant + M&A Advisor at AdvanTech Corporation
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016 | Fairfield, NJ
- Negotiated, advised and brokered the acquisition of AdvanTech to JMP Solutions for $2.7+ million.
- Documented and modernized their technology & data stack to improve profitability & business processes.
Founder of Insightful Analytics
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015 | New York, NY
- Founded & ran all aspects of Insightful Analytics, the data monetization arm of Unroll.me.
- Brokered & advised on the acquisition of Unroll.me by Rakuten for $10+ million.
- Negotiated & closed a $150k annual data license with a major hedge fund within two months of founding.
Co-Founder & CTO of Tangent Data Services
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014 | New York, NY
- Technical cofounder of a two-man team building an Analytics-as-a-Service company from inception to 40 clients & $1+ million in ARR within ~12 months.
- Conceived, built, and automated a first-of-its-kind data analytics platform based on email transactional data to service the investment community, covering 25 public e-commerce companies.
- Researched, vetted and negotiated with potential data partners in order to expand offerings.
- Participated in every board meeting, business decision and in-person sales meeting.
Head of IT & Data at Hunter Global Investors
Apr 2011 - Dec 2011 | New York, NY
- $1+ billion long/short equity hedge fund.
- Designed and developed a data-driven platform used by executives to monitor real-time portfolio performance and exposure.
- Redesigned and restructured internal databases into a streamlined, accessible interface with improved analytical capabilities.
- Championed an initiative to improve internal portfolio analytics and data-structure efficiency by meeting with and evaluating a dozen hedge fund portfolio management software data vendors.
- Provided analyses directly to the portfolio manager focused on S&P 500 companies’ fundamental financial data.
Analyst at NERA Economic Consulting
Jul 2008 - Apr 2011 | New York, NY; Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
- Earned two promotions while working across a wide variety of practice areas including Securities, Antitrust, Energy, Mass Torts, and Intellectual Property.
- Project work involved multi-billion dollar litigation proceedings encompassing large financial, energy, food services, and tobacco firms as well as government agencies.
- Drafted and edited expert reports and affidavits.
- Created supporting exhibits, including charts, diagrams, and timelines.
- Constructed and cleaned assorted databases; performed data analysis and validation.
Technology Analyst at Merrill Lynch
May 2007 - Aug 2007 | New York, NY
- Worked in the Equity-Linked Technology department of the Equity Risk and Analytics division.
- Built, tested, and rolled out a distributed application able to:
- Connect to multiple servers from a central location to iterate through large-scale log files.
- Generate reports relating to errors and failures in the monitored servers.
- Gather statistics and generate Excel-based reports from pricing instruments.
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Information Science, Systems, and Technology (ISST)
Cornell University, College of Engineering
Graduated Cum Laude in May 2008
- One of three graduates in the first graduating class for this major.
- Minor in Business (a.k.a Applied Economics & Management).
Certificate in Foreign Languages, Spanish
NYU School of Professional Studies
Earned in 2012
Skills
- Programming: SQL, Java, Python, R, C#, ASP.NET, Spring Boot, HTML, PHP, VBA, SAS, Stata, XML
- Tools: iOS, Windows, Android, Linux, Excel, Airtable, Microsoft Office, Slack, AWS, Tableau, Factiva, Factset, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, LLMs
- Languages: English (native), Spanish (basic)
- Data Analysis, Science, License Negotiation, Visualization, Compliance & Regulations, Documentation, Structures, Cleansing, & Collection
- FinTech, Decentralized-Finance (DeFi), Economic Research, Content Creation, Web Programming, Software Development
Publications, Quotations & Citations
My LinkedIn Profile with ~4k Followers
Amass Insights Blog
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Amassing Insights in the New World of Data
Quotes & Contributions
David Teten
14 Tips on How to Sell to Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds
Jul 3, 2023
Identify and connect funds to investable startups. Jordan Hauer, Co-founder and CEO, Amass Insights, suggested, “Act as an external company scout for free and feed some dealflow to funds. This will highlight your expertise to the funds and keep you top of mind.” However, note this has to be highly targeted or you’re just creating irrelevant emails for the investor to delete. See Where are the deals? How VCs source winning companies.
David Teten
Alternative Data 101 for Students and Professors
Dec 1, 2022
Jordan Hauer, Co-Founder & CEO, Amass Insights, said, “Generally, if you can prove you are only planning to use the data for academic purposes, and you offer to share the research and insights you create back to the data provider, the provider will likely be open to providing their data products to you free of charge. Most data providers are looking to publish additional examples of the use cases for their data products. The best strategy is to propose a use case for that provider’s offerings that the provider is interested in further marketing. Should the provider decide to utilize/publish your research, your research can attain much greater exposure. I’m willing to give complimentary advice on sourcing data to academics if they are interested.”
Jon Keegan
There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data
Sep 30, 2021
This is the first report in a series of exposes The Markup published about the location data industry. I educated the authors about the players in the industry and the compliance concerns & regulations, leading to several of these data providers cleaning up their data compliance practices or being exposed for their illegal data practices and subsequently shutting down their data monetization businesses.
To give a sense of how massive the industry is, Amass Insights has 320 location data providers listed on its directory, Jordan Hauer, the company’s CEO, said. While the company doesn’t directly collect or sell any of the data, hedge funds will pay it to guide them through the myriad of location data companies, he said.
“The most inefficient part of the whole process is actually not delivering the data,” Hauer said. “It’s actually finding what you’re looking for and making sure that it’s compliant, making sure that it has value and that it is exactly what the provider says it is.”
Peter Chen
BDP Community Commentaries
Mar 28, 2021
Co-written with Peter Chen
I am flattered by the interest in what we do and in how the data industry works. After tens of thousands of hours of research over about a decade, our network now includes more than 15,000 data providers. As data is starting to become valued outside of just big corporations over recent years, the need for smart contracts to govern data transactions in an immutable blockchain is more and more apparent. So we are continuing our rigorous due diligence to validate data providers’ data (we collect hundreds of pieces of information about each data provider) and applying it to the crypto industry. Data delivery will be offered in multiple formats/methods over time, but currently we allow for URL-based files and compute-to-data.
reveliolabs
COVID-19 Inspires More Adoption, New Uses for Alt Data
Sep 21, 2020
Asset Managers Tap into Alternative Data to Track COVID-19 Spread
Mar 31, 2020
Written by Dervedia Thomas
Published on FundFire, An Information Service of Money-Media, a Financial Times Company
Asset managers worried about supply-chain disruption can compare credit card data with shipping and maritime information through satellite images, Hauer says. That data can also be used along with information from automatic identifications systems on ships, as concerns about the delivery of key prescription drugs from oversees loom, he says.
“If you have satellite data you can confirm that those ships are exactly where they say they are, and you can go even deeper … to monitor the supply chain,” he says.
Devil in the data as funds call for scrutiny of LSE's Refinitiv deal
Jul 31, 2019
Written by Sinead Cruise and Huw Jones.
Published on Reuters & Yahoo! Finance.
"There is cause for some concern for investors as access to LSE's data could become more costly and less accessible outside of the confines of Refinitiv's products," Jordan Hauer, chief executive at Amass Insights, a U.S. based platform that matches data providers with investors, said.
CFTC's lack of data security to hit capital markets (link no longer active)
Jun 19, 2019
Published on BobsGuide
“The general consensus is that the security of their internal databases are suspect,” says Jordan Hauer, co-founder and CEO of Amass insights. “The report also mentions they receive data from large investors through FTP which is a protocol that has been in use for a long time, but largely replaced by SFTP or secured APIs for security purposes.”
Amass Insights Press Coverage
Emma Helbo
SPAC Special: Which Startup Will Be Acquired Next?
Feb 9, 2021
Written by Ben Zweig
Analysis by Amass Insights using Revelio Labs data
For Ursa, those meetings could result in funding that would allow the new company to grow its network of partners and develop into a global data analytics provider. “We’re gaining a lot of traction in the financial sector and have signed distribution deals with eight firms, including MorningStar, Quandl and Amass Insights,” says Maher, summarizing his pitch. “We’re now getting more active in the energy industry and looking to expand our service offerings for government. We have the talent and capability and the demand is there. We’re now looking for the resources to adequately service these demands.”
BDP Press Coverage
Truflation
Cyber Strategy Institute
Kara Taylor
While the data industry is surprisingly young, it’s coming of age with platforms like Big Data Protocol (BDP). BDP is shaking up the way that traditional data is siloed to only the wealthiest and most powerful consumers by using tokenization to make it available to the everyday consumer. They’re relying on ATTOM as one of their underlying, real-estate focused, data sources to make it happen.
📢 BIG news! 📰
— Big Data Protocol (@bigdataprotocol) March 30, 2022
Proudly announcing that @ice_markets will showcase financial & crypto data products on the BDP Data Market! 🚀
Check out ICE's website here: https://t.co/ltqk5vfLC4
How to Raise $100 Million in One Week (link no longer active)
Apr 3, 2021
Written by John Hargrave
Published in Bitcoin Market Journal
A new blockchain project called Big Data Protocol launched one week ago. As I write this, the project is currently worth $100 million. Let me repeat: $100 million in one week.
Big Data Protocol wasn’t even live a week ago. Now it sits third in terms of total value locked, ahead of DeFi mainstays Compound Finance and Uniswap, according to data compiled by DeBank.
With over $6B locked up since rewards emissions began on Saturday, the project has DeFi watchers wondering how it rocketed from nowhere to unseat major DeFi players in the fight to attract liquidity.
According to Igor Igamberdiev, Research Analyst at The Block, the top wallet, with over $1.6B staked, belongs to Tron founder Justin Son, and the second wallet, with $769M belongs to cryptocurrency trading firm, Alameda Research, led by Sam Bankman Fried.
Big Data Protocol has released a slew of partnership announcements, including one with on-chain analytics company Glassnode as a data provider.
Big Data Protocol’s Data Market is an amicable fork of Ocean Protocol. This means that, according to a Big Data Protocol post announcing the strategic partnership, that the protocol’s data providers will be able upload their tokenized data with the full functionality of the Ocean Market.
In March 2021, a team started out to change the status queue, that team is Big Data Protocol (BDP). They released their BDP token, designed to create a liquid big data marketplace. Where the price of data would be determined by users and holders of the BDP token. This marketplace has had 88 data sets released upon it since its launch in May 2021, averaging one new data set per week.
1/6
— Igor Igamberdiev (@FrankResearcher) March 8, 2021
Big Data Protocol on crazy hype, huh?
BDP contract now holds $6.2B, collected in just a few days, which puts the project on par with MakerDAO and WBTC.
Let’s take a look at the four addresses that collectively own 41% of this TVL and dump BDP as soon as they claim it. pic.twitter.com/sw6WFScNUf
Peter Chen
Peter Chen
Unroll.me Press Coverage
Leslie Picker,Nick Wells,Whitney Ksiazek
CNBC wanted to untangle the alternative data supply chain, and see exactly who’s profiting off of your data, and how. So we went shopping for a new pair of pants.
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Your emailed receipt for the pants is also full of valuable insights. That data is pulled through services like Rakuten Intelligence’s Unroll.me. The software markets itself as a way to rid your inbox of junk mail. But in doing so, it gets a look at your emails and can gather useful insights into your shopping habits to sell to investors. Unroll.me says its technology can automatically recognize commercial emails and doesn’t look at or share private ones.
Events, Speaking Engagements & Podcasts
BattleFin Discovery Day New York
Moderator & contributor to the fireside chat "Focus on AI and Alternative Data Onboarding and Due Diligence" on Jun 11, 2025
Alternative Data Breakfast Series
Co-host and organizer of this regular series, Apr 3 & Jun 10, 2025 | New York, NY
- Moderator & contributor to the panels Accelerating Alpha Generation & Data Monetization & The Impact of AI on Institutional Investing
- 40-80 investment managers and alternative data industry attendees.
Alternative Data Happy Hours
Hosted 27 Consecutive Monthly Events, starting Jan 2023 | New York, NY
- 50-125 investment managers and alternative data industry professionals attend every month.
- An invaluable ingredient in building my extensive network of influential individuals within Alternative Data.
Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (AIFI) Bootcamp Summer 2023
- Educated students about the alternative data industry and its applications in asset management
The Knowledge Graph Conference 2023
On May 8, 2023, I presented the following:
Finding the Next Million-Dollar Dataset: Data Sourcing Methods and Techniques
Abstract: Sourcing valuable data has become a competitive advantage for many market-leading companies in the past several years. But finding that data and putting it to use efficiently and effectively is an opaque and complicated process with innumerable steps and gatekeepers. Jordan Hauer has been an expert in this space for over a decade and will educate the audience on methodologies to increase an organization’s capacity for onboarding new external datasets and for structuring research regarding external data.
Session Topics:
- Data Sourcing
- Business Use Cases
- Data Management
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Entity Resolution
- Ontologies
- Taxonomies
- Data Discoverability
- Content Knowledge Graphs
- Content Management
- Metadata
- Information Architecture
Presentation & Slides:
The Scale Up Show Podcast
Leveraging Alternative Data for Fast Growth with Jordan Hauer
Recorded on Mar 28, 2023 with Ryan Staley:
4th Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investments & Innovation Thought Leadership Conference
The Beryl Elites Alternative Investments Conference is an annual conference in the Cutting Room in NYC about asset management, investment technology and alternative data.
On Jul 20, 2022, I spoke on a panel:
Product Innovation in Asset Management including Art as an Asset Class
S3 AIR AlphaTech Summit 6.0
Announced on Jun 9, 2022, I presented the following slides to an audience of investment industry executives in the NYSE on Jun 13, 2022:
UTU Trust Guardian Interview
#12 - Mark Donovick and Jordan Hauer, Co-Founders of Big Data Protocol
Sep 27, 2021
The Quiet Voices Podcast
Navigating Quiet Data for Investors
Recorded on Apr 22, 2021.
When it comes to investing, how can you best leverage datasets, especially when studying activities in opaque markets such as China? In this episode of The Quiet Voices podcast, “Navigating Quiet Data for Investors”, we hear from data marketplace leaders who share their insights on emerging best practices in using alternative data for investing.
Hosted by Neil Seeman, Founder and CEO of RIWI, Episode 1 features an insightful discussion with Charles Poliacof, CEO of Knoema and Jordan Hauer, CEO and Co-founder of Amass Insights. Listen to the podcast: here.
Grace Demill
The Alternative Data Podcast
The Amass Insights Episode
Recorded on Dec 14, 2020 with Mark Donovick & Mark Fleming-Williams.
In this episode I’m joined by Jordan Hauer and Mark Donovick of Amass Insights.
Amass Insights is one of alternative data’s facilitators. The company provides a bridge for alternative data buyers to get access to the whole gamut of available datasets; at the last count Jordan and Mark had 13,000 alternative data providers on their books.
In our conversation we speak about how Amass Insights started off, and what Jordan and Mark have been seeing in the wider Alternative Data Space, both in terms of the hottest datasets and the emerging trends on the buyside.
AIR AlphaTech Upfronts
Recorded on Dec 1, 2020 for this virtual conference, which was very similar to the presentation I later did at the in-person AIR event in 2022 (see above).
Barclays + Amass Insights Alternative Data Roundtables
Barclays organized two private roundtable events featuring and introducing me and Amass Insights in-person to a highly-selective group of their best hedge fund clients. In each, I spoke for 30-45 minutes about the state of alternative data and opportunities I'd been seeing to generate alpha from data. Then, I spent an hour networking & fielding questions from the investors about me, Amass Insights and useful data that could/should be enhancing their investment decisions.
#2
Sep 25, 2019 | London
#1 - What’s the Latest in Exotic Data?
Jan 24, 2019 | New York, NY
2nd Annual Beryl Elites Alternative Investment Conference: Emerging Technology & Alternative Data
Co-hosted, co-planned, & moderated two panels on Nov 5-6, 2018:
Finding Alpha in Alternative Data: How Managers turn Big Data intro True Informational Edge
Moderating Beryl Elites Panel - Finding Alpha in Alternative Data: How Managers turn Big Data intro true Informational Edge
The Evolution of Alternative Data: Their deployment to Improve Portfolio Allocation, Optimization, and Risk Management
Moderating Beryl Elites Panel - The Evolution of Alternative Data and their deployment to improve portfolio allocations
My Thoughts on the 2nd Annual Beryl Elites Conference
The FinTech Hackathon
Runner-up Winner
Apr 2015
- Integrated & combined alternative data from PsychSignal, Estimize, Tagnify & Xignite
- Analyzed the data & built indicators that a particular stock is going to have an impending correction
- Visualized the data in a frontend user interface
Professional Affiliations
Member of The International Trade Council (ITC)
As of Jan 2, 2024, I became a member of the following Business Councils within ITC:
- Banking and Trade Finance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Intellectual Property
- Innovation and Technology
Jordan Hauer, the visionary CEO & Founder of Amass Insights, stands at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence, Banking and Trade Finance, Innovation and Technology, Intellectual Property, and Venture Capital as a prominent member of the International Trade Council. With a deep-rooted presence in the realms of Alternative Data, Investment Management, and FinTech, Hauer has masterfully steered Amass Insights to become an indispensable resource for investment organizations and hedge funds, specializing in the sourcing and selling of data on behalf of data providers.
Hauer's journey into the industry began with a significant role as the CTO/CDO of a hedge fund, a position that laid the foundation for his future endeavors. Armed with an Information Science, Systems, and Technology engineering degree from the prestigious Cornell University, his academic and professional background has been pivotal in navigating the complex landscape of financial technology and data management.
At the helm of Amass Insights, Hauer has embarked on key projects that have significantly contributed to the success of some of the largest hedge funds globally. His pioneering efforts in developing a new category of data, specifically email transactional data, have not only set a new precedent in the industry but also underscored his role as an innovator and thought leader in data-driven investment strategies.
Reflecting on the evolution of the industry, Hauer notes the significant advancements and shifts that have taken place, highlighting the current challenges such as reducing the time to value with data. Looking ahead, he envisions an industry trajectory aimed at enhancing efficiency in data procurement, a critical component for sustaining growth and innovation in the fast-paced world of FinTech.
Hauer's anticipation for new technologies and trends within the industry underscores his commitment to staying at the forefront of innovation. His advice to those embarking on a career in the industry is to gain a robust understanding of the markets and to specialize deeply in one industry or category, emphasizing the importance of expertise in achieving success.
Faced with setbacks and challenges, Hauer's approach is characterized by resilience and a strategic mindset, aiming to build a sustainable and growing business. While his professional achievements are noteworthy, Hauer also maintains a rich array of hobbies and interests outside his professional life, reflecting a balanced and multifaceted personality.
Jordan Hauer's contribution to the International Trade Council and his leadership across multiple business councils showcase his dedication to fostering innovation, protecting intellectual property, and promoting venture capital investment in the technology and financial sectors. His work at Amass Insights exemplifies the intersection of data, finance, and technology, driving forward the future of investment management and FinTech.
Founding Member of The Data Privacy Protocol Alliance (DPPA)
Data Privacy Protocol Alliance Forms To Build A Decentralized Data Ecosystem
May 5, 2021
More than 20 businesses worldwide have announced the creation of the Data Privacy Protocol Alliance (DPPA), to build a decentralized blockchain-based data ecosystem that provides consumers control of their data and competes against the entrenched data monopolies.
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The DPPA‘s founding members already include data aggregators, privacy advocates, brands, agencies, advertising platforms, and many more to come, from both the United States and abroad (e.g. Singapore, Israel and the U.K.). Founding members include: Access America, Aqilliz, Big Data Protocol, BIGtoken, Breaker.io, BritePool, CasperLabs, ConsenSys Mesh, First Rate, Gain Theory, Metadata, MetaMe, Nth Party, Own Your Data Foundation, OptIA, Permission.io, QED-IT, Quantum Economics, SQream, Tapmydata, Tribal Credit, and Vesto.
Interests & Activites
- Planning & hosting mixed social/professional gatherings.
- Analyzing fantasy football statistics.
- Analyzing & playing poker.
- Analyzing & problem-solving in rock climbing.
- Analyzing & playing soccer.
References
Available upon request.