Brendan Wallace | |
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| Born | September 10, 1981 New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | American entrepreneur and angel investor |
| Known for | CEO of Identified |
Brendan Wallace is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.[1][2] In September 2011, he co-founded Identified, a data and analytics company that uses an artificial intelligence technology known as SYMAN to filter Facebook data into professional insights.[3] He is also Identified’s co-CEO, a post he shares with Identified cofounder Adeyemi Ajao.[1][4][5]
Career
Born in New York City, NY, Wallace graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2004 with a B.A. in political science and economics. Upon graduation he joined Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. Two years later, he moved to The Blackstone Group, working in real estate private equity.[1][2]
In 2008, Wallace began his postgraduate studies at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and received his MBA in 2010.[6] There he met and partnered with Ajao on a project that later became Identified.com.[7]
Identified uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology called SYMAN (Systematic Mass Normalization) to transform social data from Facebook and other social media sources into professional intelligence that can be used in recruiting, sales and marketing, and business intelligence.[7][3]
Wallace is an active angel investor, and he has invested in over 20 companies, including Bonobos, Cabify, and SmartAsset.[8]
Awards and Recognition
At Princeton, Wallace was a Phi Beta Kappa, and Princeton University’s political science department awarded him the John G. Buchanan Prize, its highest academic award.[6] The university president awarded him the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence.[6] He was also an Arbuckle Leadership Fellow while at Stanford.[6]
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References
- ^ a b c [, http://www.crunchbase.com/person/brendan-wallace "Brendan Wallace"]. CrunchBase. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ a b "Brendan Wallace". Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ a b Rip Empson (May8, 2013). "Identified Looks To Solve Social Media's Dirty Data Problem For Recruiters With Help From Former LinkedIn Data Gurus". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ retrieved April 22, 2013 "Identified Co-Founder Brendan Wallace interviewed by Brian Solis". YouTube. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "Linking Job Seekers and Recruiters Online". FOX News. December 27,2011. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c d "Brendan Wallace". Yatedo. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ a b Tomio Geron (September 19, 2011). "Identified Launches Its People-Ranking Professional Search Engine". Forbes. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ "Brendan Wallace". AngelList. Retrieved May 21, 2013.