SPEAKER
Laurence Lau
Laurence is the founder of The Golden Company, which provides data analytics and management consulting services. His publicly traded clients have outperformed the stock market 3-to-1.
Laurence developed his analytical skills as a Wall Street quant and his consulting skills at Strategy&. His experience includes C-level strategic advisory for multinational organizations across industries and functions, including (but not limited to) corporate strategy, Private Equity value creation, supply chain optimization, and pricing strategy.
Laurence is the 2022 and 2023 Financial Modeling World Cup champion and is the only competitor to ever finish a season with a perfect score. His April 2023 interview with WBZ NewsRadio has accumulated over 1,000,000+ views and 50,000+ engagements (likes/comments/shares) to date, across three different social media platforms.
He has an MBA from MIT, which was funded from his winnings as a professional gambler – he built Excel models to predict the outcomes of events such as political elections and box-office results. He then used those models to trade binary options on the Intrade prediction market. As a former professional gambler, he is no stranger to Vegas and is looking forward to visiting the Heart Attack Grill and the Sphere. Originally from New York City, he is a CFA Charterholder based in Boston.
OTHER SPEAKERS
Acquisition, capital raise, project finance and corporate lending professional. Has MSc in civil engineering & construction, and project & structured finance.
An independent mining engineer and a university lecturer in Mining Engineering.
Practice Lead for Governance, Adoption and Change Management, SoftwareOne North America
Founder of The Golden Company. FMWC 2022 and 2023 Champion. Ex Wall Street quant.
Previously worked as actuary in PwC and Taylor Fry. Five times ModelOff finalist and one time bronze medalist. Two time MEWC finalist.
Worked at Operis for 2 years together with Michael Jarman. Active FMWC and MEWC participant. Part of the case design team. Currently pursuing an MSc. in Mathematics and Statistics.
Contractor with an impressive 23-year track record in the actuarial departments of leading insurance providers in Europe and the UK.
Road to Las Vegas and MEWC cases' author, Consultant at Oliver Wyman
Award-winning author in analytics, data science, and data visualization. 11-time Microsoft MVP Award winner
Founder & CEO of Financial Modeling World Cup. Financial Modeling World Championship 2-time finalist
25-time Excel MVP Award winner, author of 5 Excel books, Excel user since version 0.99
Executive Director at Financial Modeling Institute. Chartered Financial Modeler
Founder of The FP&A Guy. Providing world-class content and training for FP&A and Finance Professionals
Founder of Vertex42.com. Spreadsheet template developer since 2003
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