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7 Chord Appoints Andrew Sundstrom as Chief Science Officer

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Fixed income pricing and analytics vendor 7 Chord has appointed Andrew Sundstrom as its Chief Science Officer, to lead the new phase of development and innovation of its BondDroid proprietary machine learning engine. Sundstrom brings 28 years of cross-disciplinary scientific and industry experience, at Nortel Networks, IBM Research, Morgan Stanley, and most recently at Nanotronics, where he developed artificial intelligence methods to make factories smarter and more resilient to errors and sophisticated cyberattacks. Sundstrom will be joined by Tinatin Nikvashvili, a 2021 graduate of NYU’s Center for Data Science MSc program.

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