60Jose Plehn Dujowich (joseplehndujowich)
Joined 2 months ago from Huntington Beach, CA
Jose Plehn Dujowich is the CEO, Chief Data Officer, and Founder of BrightQuery (BQ) and BQ AI. His extensive background includes over a decade of working with crucial U.S. statistical agencies such as the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). His expertise spans economics, finance, data analytics, employment, payroll, financial and credit ratings, industrial organization, and artificial intelligence (AI).
In 2019, he established BrightQuery to provide firmographics, financial data, corporate family trees, and legal insights about the U.S. economy. This platform manages an extensive database consisting of over 100 million legal entities, 70 million organizations, 150 million employees and business owners, and 250 million locations. This data is sourced from regulatory, tax, and legal filings from the IRS, Department of Labor, SBA, SEC, and over 80,000 governmental jurisdictions. December 2024 will mark BrightQuery's fifth anniversary.
In 2023, he launched BQ AI, an ambitious project to develop a super-intelligence that models the global economy, starting with the U.S. This initiative uses BQ's proprietary database to build a detailed simulation of the economy, viewing it as a complex system of interacting companies, consumers, households, governments, and events. This model aims to connect the "micro view" of individual entities to the "macro view" of global economic sectors.
His research in artificial intelligence and data analytics, including projects like "AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use," is funded by the National Science Fund (NSF). This project explores how a future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) could enhance the accessibility of statistical data for AI applications, supporting federal agencies and their partners in maximizing the utility of generative AI.
Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, he was a Senior Advisor and Co-founder at Powerlytics, where he contributed intellectual property crucial for aggregating anonymized IRS tax data on U.S. companies and households. His academic career was marked by significant positions, including Faculty and Executive Director of the Fink Center at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he published extensively in various prestigious journals.
He also served as an Adjunct Accounting Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Financial Reporting & Management at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. There, he founded the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy and received the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award for his research on "Demand Uncertainty and Cost Behavior."
Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo, where he helped establish the Journal of Human Capital.
Jose Plehn Dujowich earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science from MIT, specializing in Information Systems and Economics with a minor in Mathematics.
Born in New York of Mexican descent, he spent his early childhood in Mexico City before growing up in Geneva, Switzerland, where his father worked as a senior diplomat with the United Nations. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, he has committed his career to improving global economic equity and sustainability. For the past two years, he and BrightQuery have partnered with the NFIB to provide free reports to small businesses, demonstrating his dedication to fostering economic development and reducing inequality.