Jacob Swe

Jacob Swe is a Senior Data Scientist at Polen Capital. Jacob previously worked as a Summer Associate at Polen Capital, where they completed a capstone project of a Tableau-based attribution reporting system to be driven from a then-new data warehouse. Jacob also worked on various projects in automation and data processing and cleaning in Python, Alteryx (ETL), and SQL.

Before working at Polen Capital, Jacob was an Intern at The MicroCap Conference, where they developed 100-page investor information booklets using Python generated graphics and analysis, scraped and calculated key financial metrics and ratios, and generated marketing materials for a series of private equity funding conferences.

Jacob has also worked as a Research Assistant at NYU Stern School of Business, where they worked with an international team of professors as an assistant in reviewing, summarizing, and analyzing scholarly articles on insider trading and information leaks within the Food and Drug Administration. Jacob also developed statistical models of budget trends by recreating earlier studies to synthesize then-unknown 2016 data.

Jacob Swe graduated from NYU Stern School of Business with a Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Statistics, and a minor in Mathematics.

They are on a team with Zach Simon - Senior Data Scientist, Yiwei Sun - Senior Data Scientist. Their manager is Zhang Zhang, Investment Analytics & Data Science Manager.