Jonathan Hakim is President and CEO of Cignifi Inc (www.cignifi.com). The Cignifi big data platform uses mobile data to score millions of underserved consumers who lack traditional credit histories, unlocking a massive opportunity to provide them with credit, insurance and savings products. Hakim is an experienced CEO and technology entrepreneur; his previous ventures include Azima DLI, an information services company providing web-based remote monitoring and diagnostics for industrial equipment. Hakim spent eight years as Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, holding senior positions in London and New York, where he was responsible for the Firm’s leveraged finance business with emerging-market telecom and media companies. Hakim also served as a Director of the International Finance Corporation in Washington DC. Prior to his career in investment banking, Hakim spent four years as Banking Correspondent with The Economist magazine. He was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
Analytics + Data
A Key Question of the Digital Era: How Much Information is Too Much?
Mobile technology is rapidly changing the way we live. But it brings an explosion in data consumption. Last year the world consumed 4 petabytes of data a month on mobile phones. (A petabyte is a million gigabytes.) Within five years, the amount will likely grow to over 24 billion petabytes. Is there a limit to how much info we can healthily consume?
Conferences
Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
