Armando Gonzalez, an expert in applied big data and artificial intelligence technologies, is President & CEO of RavenPack, the leading provider of big data analytics for financial institutions. Widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable authorities on automated text and sentiment analysis, he has designed systems that turn unstructured content into structured data, primarily for financial trading applications. A recognized speaker at academic and business conferences across the globe, his commentary and research has appeared in leading business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, among many others.