Kyber Data Science Announces New Senior Hires
November 16 2020 - 7:05AM
Kyber Data Science, LLC (“Kyber”), a subsidiary of Cowen Inc.
(NASDAQ:COWN) (“Cowen”), today announced several new senior hires
who have recently joined the company, and the promotion of Brian
Engelbert to COO of Kyber.
Kyber is focused on developing and selling
unique and proprietary datasets to institutional investors.
Most recently, Kyber unveiled a nationally-representative health
care claims and electronic medical records data product that
enables timely and accurate analyses across health care subsectors
including drug, medical device, diagnostics, and health care
services companies. Transaction-level data allow customers to
develop a large number of key performance indicators, and drive
granular insights into the intricacies of product revenue and
disease dynamics.
“Reflecting its significant momentum and
opportunity, Kyber continues to attract world-class talent with
deep industry expertise and experience,” said Robert Fagin, Kyber’s
Executive Chair. “Our management team possesses nearly 150 years of
combined financial services, health care, and analytical know-how,
allowing it to develop innovative data solutions in service to our
customers.”
Kyber’s recent key
appointments and promotions include:
- Jeff Forringer joined Kyber as Chief Executive Officer. Jeff
was most recently at Decision Resources Group (DRG), a health care
and life sciences data analytics and market research
provider. At DRG, he served as senior vice president of real
world data commercialization, and later as executive vice president
of market access. Prior to DRG, Jeff served as COO of the Living
Voice product at Vital Decisions. Jeff also spent 11 years at
IntrinsiQ, a provider of informatics solutions focused on helping
community oncologists make better treatment decisions for their
patients. At IntrinsiQ, Jeff was general manager of the
pharma data division, and later the company’s president and CEO.
IntrinsiQ was ultimately sold to AmerisourceBergen Corporation.
Jeff holds a BS degree in history from SUNY Buffalo.
- Rich Ferris joined Kyber as Head of Data Science. Rich joined
Kyber from Managed Markets Insight and Technology (MMIT), where he
was senior vice president of real world evidence. Prior to MMIT,
Rich spent four years at IQVIA (formerly Quintiles and IMS Health,
Inc.). He joined IQVIA after the company’s acquisition of
Aileron Solutions, a company specializing in product solutions for
pharmaceutical and medical device markets using patient level data,
where he was the founding partner and COO. Before Aileron, Rich
spent eight years as vice president of product engineering at
Health Market Science (now Lexis/Nexis Risk Solutions). He
holds a BA in economics and political science from Swarthmore
College and an MA in economics from the University of
Pennsylvania.
- Gavin Krumenacker joined Kyber as Head of Sales. Prior to
Kyber, Gavin was senior vice president of oncology market access at
Managed Markets Insight and Technology (MMIT), which provides
market access data and services to the life sciences industry.
Before MMIT, Gavin spent three years as vice president of product
management at Symphony Health, which provides strategic market data
and analytics on the pharmaceuticals industry, and three years as
vice president of strategy and business development at MRO
Corporation, a provider of outsourcing services to health care
systems and organizations. He also spent 15 years at IMS
Health, where he held several roles, most recently practice lead of
outsourcing services. Gavin holds an BS in marketing from the
University of Scranton, and an MBA from Villanova University.
- Graham Lincoln joined Kyber as Head of Product. Prior to Kyber,
Graham was vice president, data & analytics at Decision
Resources Group (DRG). Before DRG, Graham was senior manager of
market solutions for Humedica (a division of Optum Analytics), a
population health and “real world evidence” data analytics SaaS
provider. Graham holds a BA degree from Connecticut College, and an
MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
- Jean Roberts joined Kyber as Head of Marketing and
Consulting. Prior to Kyber, Jean was director of strategy for
the Health Care Advanced Analytics group at SVB Leerink. Prior to
SVB Leerink, Jean held senior data science and analytics roles at
AIG and American Express, and held leadership roles in financial
services for over 15 years. She holds a BS degree from
Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Research
Methods/Applied Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh.
- Brian Engelbert, who has served as Kyber’s Head of Strategic
Development and Data Sourcing since 2018, was recently named COO of
Kyber, reflecting his increased responsibilities for the company’s
operations. Prior to joining Kyber, Brian was a consultant,
servicing alternative data companies and the buy-side community,
and also worked for an alternative data start-up. Before Brian’s
work in the data industry, he spent a number of years working for
several large institutional equity hedge funds and for two global
investment banking firms in both research and strategy roles.
Brian earned a BS/BA with a dual major in Accounting and Finance
from Creighton University. He is a certified public
accountant and is a CFA® charterholder.
About Cowen Inc.
Cowen Inc. (“Cowen” or the “Company”) is a
diversified financial services firm offering investment banking
services, equity and credit research, sales and trading, prime
brokerage, global clearing, commission management services and
actively managed alternative investment products. Cowen focuses on
delivering value-added capabilities to our clients in order to help
them outperform. Founded in 1918, the Company is headquartered in
New York and has offices worldwide. Learn more at Cowen.com
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