Sameer Gupta to Deliver Keynote Speech at the QuantVision 2026 Fordham Quantitative Conference on March 19–20 at Lincoln Center Campus
Sameer Gupta Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Apollo Global Management will headline the QuantVision 2026 Fordham Quantitative Conference presented by Rebellion Research bringing his insights on data artificial intelligence and the future of quant finance to one of the industry’s most anticipated events.
Sameer Gupta is a senior data and analytics executive with more than two decades of experience building large scale data platforms, AI systems, and technology driven businesses across hedge funds, asset management, financial markets, sports analytics, and early stage AI ventures.
He currently serves as Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Apollo Global Management, where he leads firmwide data, analytics, and AI strategy. His work focuses on transforming data into decision advantage across private equity, credit, and real assets.
Prior to Apollo, Sameer spent over seven years at Point72, where he held multiple senior leadership roles including Head of Data Solutions, Head of Data for the Fusion market neutral platform, and Head of Data Sourcing and Strategy. At Point72, he led end to end AI and data initiatives spanning alternative data, GenAI platforms, vector databases, RAG architectures, entitlement aware data systems, and crypto data infrastructure. His work enabled scalable insights across research, trading, and investment decision making.
In parallel, Sameer served as Head of Data Solutions for the New York Mets, leading the digital transformation of baseball operations data across MLB and MiLB. He drove the migration of pitch by pitch, scouting, biomechanics, video, and player development data into cloud based platforms and oversaw the development of private large language models and new data products for competitive advantage.
Earlier in his career, Sameer was Chief Operating Officer of iSentium, an early AI and computational linguistics company. He led commercialization, built a multi million dollar recurring revenue business, raised over twelve million dollars in venture funding, and established alternative data partnerships with leading hedge funds, banks, and technology firms.
His background also includes senior roles at J.P. Morgan, where he served as COO for global electronic trading and strategic venture investments, NYSE, where he worked on M and A and market infrastructure that helped shape modern electronic trading, and Goldman Sachs, where he began his career in software development and technology advisory.
Sameer holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra.
He has been recognized as one of the leading figures in data and AI on Wall Street, including being named to Rebellion Research’s Top 15 Wall Street Data Minds of the Year.
QuantVision 2026: Fordham’s Quantitative Conference
