Praveen Tripathi

Technical Advisor

Praveen Tripathi is a Technical Advisor at 73 Strings and is based in New York. He provides guidance on firm’s developments related to AI, machine learning and other complex algorithms. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in computer science department at Stony Brook University in New York. Before joining academics, he has worked with Philips in the US and Satyam in India (now Tech Mahindra).

Praveen has experience in machine learning, data mining, spatio-temporal data analysis, time series data analysis. His research is focused on:

• Topic Modeling and Latent Dirichlet Allocation
• Problems of finding out the hot spots of activity in trajectory data
• Directional analysis of trajectory data and trajectory smoothing techniques
• Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) using Evolutionary Algorithms (EA)
• Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) based MOO algorithm The performance of proposed algorithms was compared with existing state-of-art MOO algorithms
• Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation
• Algorithmic trading and related published paper includes : Practical Inter-stock Dependency Indicator using Time Series and Derivatives, Identifying Stock Similarity Based on Episode Distances and Identifying Stock Similarity Based on Multi-event Episodes

Praveen is MS in computer science from JNU and PHD in computer science from University of Texas. He was also a research fellow at Indian Statistical Institute.

Rama Cont

Scientific Advisor

Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1994) and holder of a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Paris Saclay University (1998), Rama Cont began his career as a researcher at Ecole Polytechnique (1998-2006) before joining Columbia University in New York as an associate professor (2007). Promoted to Director of Research at the CNRS (2010), he then became Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College (London) (2012-2018) before being named Professor at Oxford University (2018) where he currently holds the Chair of Mathematical Finance and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Rama Cont has a globally recognized expertise on financial risk modeling, with more than 50 publications on this subject. He received the Grand Prix Louis Bachelier of the French Academy of Sciences (2010) for his work on financial risk modeling, and the Royal Society Award (2017) for excellence in interdisciplinary research for his work on systemic risk modeling.

Alongside his academic career, he has a substantial experience in consulting in the financial sector, with major international financial institutions and stock exchanges. He was scientific advisor to Norges Bank (2014-2019), the International Monetary Fund (2017-2019) and has led consulting missions for DTCC (2009-2010), Intercontinental Exchange (2009-2011), BMF-Bovespa (2010-2014), ACPR (2016) and the European Central Bank (2018-2019).

Frédérique Dupuis-Toubol

Advisor

Frédérique Dupuis-Toubol holds a Master's degree (1981) and a DEA in Business Law (1982), completed by a Doctorate in Private Law (1985) from the University of Paris Nanterre. She began her career as a court attorney with the law firm Jeantet (1983-1989) before joining the law firm Moquet Borde-Dieux Geens & Associés as an associate attorney (1990-1995). She then returned to Jeantet as a partner (1995-1999) before joining Bird & Bird (1999) as an associate lawyer in the technology and communications practice. At the same time, Frédérique Dupuis-Toubol advises the firm easyQuorum as a senior advisor and is the co-founder of the start-up troov.com (2018). She is also president of the advisory board of The (RE) SET company (2019).

Frédérique Dupuis-Toubol has over fifteen years of extensive expertise in advising on information technology and electronic communications law for operators, international investors and government authorities. She is one of the first lawyers in France who specialized in this field.

Christian Mouillon

Advisor

Christian Mouillon holds a Master degree in Management from the Grande Ecole of ESCP Business School (1977), Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor, Christian Mouillon joined the audit and consulting firm EY (formerly Ernst & Young) (1978) where he spent his entire career. He held a number of strategic positions between Paris, London and New York, including the positions of partner (1990). He was global Vice Chairman (2004-2015) in charge of the insurance, advisory and risk and management practices. He was also member of Global executive board at EY for 11 Years (2004-2015). Christian Mouillon benefits from a solid expertise in financial advisory and leadership skills serving all types of industries in a multicultural environment.

Christian Mouillon is also Chairman of the ESCP Foundation and a corporate director.

Maryline Kulawik

Advisor

Maryline Kulawik is an Advisor at 73 Strings and is based in London. Maryline assists 73 Strings by providing strategic advice and in particular inputs to shape products for Asset Management industry in general, and PE and Venture Capital in particular. Maryline is Managing Partner at Spice Capital LLP, a London based Assets Management house.

Maryline started her career in investment banking at BNP Paribas (M&A and VC deals in Telecommunications industries). Following this experience, Maryline worked as investment manager at the venture capital firm Galileo Partners. In 2003, Maryline co-founded Elaia Partners, one of the largest French early-stage VCs which today manages over €400M. Elaia Partners invested into prominent French start-ups, such as Criteo, an Adtech French company, listed on the Nasdaq.

Maryline is an active BA in several start-ups and Board member of mid- cap companies such as REP (Chemicals) or EUCELIA group (Shipyard services). She is also an independent board member of Arvella (ESG- focused assets management firm) Maryline holds a MSc from HEC Paris, with a Major in Entrepreneurship.

François Riahi

Advisor

François Riahi is an advisor at 73 Strings and is based in Paris. François assists 73 Strings by providing strategic advice and in particular related, but not limited to, the banking sector expertise in conjunction with the development of our products and their introduction to the market.

François began his career at the French Ministry of Finance, where he was Inspector of Finance and then Head of Budget Policy. In 2007, he was then appointed Advisor to the French President, in charge of State reform and public finances. Following this experience, François joined Groupe BPCE where he became Deputy CEO in charge of strategy. In 2012, he became CEO of Natixis Wholesale Banking Asia Pacific. In 2016, François joined Natixis' executive Committee as co- head of global corporate banking. He then became a member of the Management Board of BPCE, in charge of finance, strategy and general secretariat. In 2018, François was appointed CEO of Natixis. Since November 2020, François is CEO of LOV Group (Financière LOV), a group present in 30 countries founded around audiovisual production (Banijay / Endemol Shine), online games (BetClic) and luxury hotels (Lov Hotels collection).

François holds MSc from Ecole Centrale Paris and IEP Paris, is graduated from Stanford Executive Program and is a former student of ENA (Nelson Mandela Class).

Gerry Creagh

Advisor

Gerry Creagh brings more than 30 years of executive and global leadership experience in building and operating Financial Advisory practices. He ran PwC's Valuation Services practice in North America and subsequently transitioned the practice to Standard & Poors' where he executed a global expansion into real estate, litigation, tax, portfolio valuation and solvency opinions.

Subsequently, Gerry Creagh led a leveraged buyout from Standard & Poors' into Duff & Phelps in 2005. As President of Duff & Phelps, he expanded the operation into investment banking and concentrated sector expertise. He retired as President and a Board Member from Duff & Phelps in 2010. At that time, Duff & Phelps had grown to $400 million in revenue and 1200 professionals throughout the world.

As an advisor to 73Strings, he will provide strategic advice and assist the management in connection with valuation product development, global market growth and marketing initiatives.