Experience

PemPem

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Founder & President

  • Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

  PemPem builds mobile fintech & supply chain software for micro-enterprises in commodity supply chains. Our mission is to support the transition of informal, cash-based economies into digital, technology-based ones bringing (i) greater productivity to micro-enterprises, (ii) traceability to commodity supply chains, and (iii) sustainability to industries. www.pempem.io



Mulago Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Rainer Arnhold Fellow at Mulago

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  "Our job is to find the organizations best able to create change and give them what they need to do it."



MIT Sloan School of Management

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor & Assistant Professor of Operations Management

  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2022

  Cambridge, MA My work examines the design of technologies and algorithms that address supply chain challenges in developing and emerging markets, especially informal markets, by combining methods from large-scale field work, optimization, econometrics, action research, and computer science. www.jfdezegher.com



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-doctoral Fellow

  • Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

• PhD Candidate

  • Sep 2012 - Aug 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area



APG

• United Kingdom
• Media Production

• Research Intern in Quant Equities

  • Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Designed a novel strategy for algorithmic trading of equities to minimize exposure to tail risk in equity portfolios.



UFF Agri Asset Management

• South Africa
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Feb 2010 - Aug 2010

  Cape Town Area, South Africa Designed novel investment strategies for long-term agricultural investments.