Martin Chavez, Goldman Sachs Amanda Gordon | Bloomberg | Getty PicturesMarty Chavez's subsequent act is starting.The previous Goldman Sachs know-ho
Martin Chavez, Goldman Sachs
Amanda Gordon | Bloomberg | Getty Pictures
Marty Chavez’s subsequent act is starting.
The previous Goldman Sachs know-how chief is becoming a member of the board of Paige, a New York-based start-up that aims to use artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the prognosis and therapy of most cancers.
“I am thrilled on the alternative to place my expertise on the crossroads of math, information, software program, and machine studying to work for the essential mission of revolutionizing most cancers prognosis and therapy,” Chavez stated Friday in a press launch.
Chavez left Goldman at the end of last year after spending nearly twenty years on the Wall Avenue agency, most notably as chief info officer, CFO and co-head of buying and selling. He rode the wave of — and was a chief spokesman for — the rise of technologists on Wall Avenue as computing took over extra of the markets’ actions.
When he introduced his departure in September, Chavez, who holds a Ph.D in Medical Info Sciences from Stanford College, informed the Wall Avenue Journal that he was concerned about making use of what he discovered in finance to the sector of well being care.
“The transformation of finance by means of software program is about earning profits programmable,” he informed the Journal. “The subsequent frontier is making life—genes, cells, organs—programmable.”
Paige, based in 2017 by most cancers consultants at Memorial…