Jose M. Plehn — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder and CEO of BrightQuery and OpenData.org, focused on making data factual and standardizing open data protocols.
Serves as Board Member and Chief Data Officer of the AI Alliance and is a Governing Board Member of FINOS and NIEM Open.
Co-founded Powerlytics, which provides aggregated anonymized IRS tax returns on all U.S. companies and households.
Held academic positions as Faculty & Executive Director at UCLA Anderson and Adjunct Accounting Professor at UC Berkeley Haas.
Received the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association (AAA) and AICPA.

Biography

Jose M. Plehn is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ) and oversees its open data initiatives, including opendata.org.

BrightQuery's mission centers on making data factual and contributing to the standardization and adoption of open data protocols. He holds significant roles in the AI and open standards communities, serving as a Board Member and Chief Data Officer of the AI Alliance, alongside IBM and Meta.