.Brian Clark

A rising star in the Chicago AI community - Ascent Technologies helps financial sector firms reduce the cost of compliance. Their algorithms and technology parse regulations (RegTech) issued by many governmental financial sector entities. We look forward to Brian sharing his experiences in Ascent’s exciting ascent! BIO Brian is the CEO and co-founder of Ascent Technologies, a RegTech firm that helps firms build, manage, and automate their regulatory compliance. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois in Economics, his J.D. from DePaul College of Law, and is completing his MBA at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He previously worked as general counsel and chief compliance officer of an international brokerage firm. Prior to that, he investigated financial fraud in trading markets. He is an Eagle Scout, is fascinated with turning the qualitative, quantitative, and believes that artificial intelligence and predictive analytics will be powerful enabling technologies that augment and merge with manual processes to automate an increasing amount of cognitive human processes.