Peter Tegelaar

Current

Co-founder at Newcope

Past

Co-founder at Reccoon
Recommender Systems Architect at Wakoopa
Quantitative Researcher at DeepBlueCapital

Translator at ExecuTRACK Solutions, A Step Stone Company

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Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Alkwin Kollege

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Recommended

3 people have recommended Peter

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Peter Tegelaar’s Summary

I am a tech entrepreneur and applied statistician. My major interest is understanding people's behavior - with a flair for business impact - especially through applying sophisticated statistical techniques to large data sets. Currently, I am the cofounder of Newcope.com (shortlisted for Seedcamp Week 2009, top 40 out of 1500+ applicants), a company that helps virtual goods providers increase revenue.

My work includes the construction - from scratch, in Ruby (on Rails) with C extensions - of the original Wakoopa.com recommendation engine, the co-founding of personalization startup Reccoon.com (runner-up in the Strands $100,000 Call for Recommender Startups), and working as an analyst at hedge fund DeepBlueCapital.com. Also, I've done original empirical research in behavioral economics, will publish a statistical paper that implements a novel deconvolution algortihm in R, and am the coauthor of a medical paper on Achilles tendon ruptures.

I hold a master (Economics, cum laude), three bachelors (Mathematics and Statistics, Economics and Business, and Law), and two minors (Physics, and Computer Science) from the University of Amsterdam.

Peter Tegelaar’s Specialties:

Business Development, Strategy, Predictive Analytics (esp. Recommender Systems / Recommendation Engines), Statistics & Stochastics, Behavioral Economics, and R (#rstats, programming).

Peter Tegelaar’s Experience

Co-founder

Newcope

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

Newcope increases your virtual goods revenue http://newcope.com/

Press: http://bit.ly/2BU4zA
Co-founder

Reccoon

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

http://blog.strands.com/2008/10/24/gravity-winner-strands-100k-call/

http://www.recked.org/
Recommender Systems Architect

Wakoopa

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2008 — September 2008 (4 months)

I was contracted to develop the recommendation engine for Wakoopa.com, a website that tracks software usage. This program gives users recommendations for software items they're not currently using, but might interest them. In this position, I was responsible for both the theoretical and practical parts: design, implementation, programming (in C, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails), extensions, and optimizations.
Quantitative Researcher

DeepBlueCapital

(Financial Services industry)

April 2007 — January 2008 (10 months)

DeepBlueCapital is a statistical arbitrage hedge fund. Here I did equity and futures research, and statistical analyses. Developed a novel algorithm (in Ruby) for matching equity portfolios.
Translator

ExecuTRACK Solutions, A Step Stone Company

(Human Resources industry)

March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)

Translated a complete HR ERP software suite from English to Dutch.

Peter Tegelaar’s Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Bachelor , Mathematics , 2006 — 2009

Propedeuse (=1st year exam): Computer Science (2007)
Minor: Physics (2009)

Thesis (9.0/10) - up for publication:
"Combining Kernel Estimators in the Bivariate Uniform Deconvolution Model."
http://www.science.uva.nl/onderwijs/thesis/centraal/files/f505145999.pdf

Activities and Societies:

Teaching mathematics to prospective M.Sc. Economics students.
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Bachelor , Law , 2001 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

Member of student rowing club A.A.S.R. Skøll.
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Master , Economics (cum laude) , 2005 — 2006

Major: Microeconomics

Thesis (Grade 9.5/10):
"Overconfidence and Behaviour in Economic Games"
http://dare.uva.nl/document/41898
Universiteit van Amsterdam

Bachelor , Economics and Business , 2001 — 2005

Specialisation: International Financial Economics
International program: 80% foreign students, all courses in English

Thesis (8.5/10):
"Optimal venture capital financing of high-tech start-ups.
Minimizing agency costs in a dynamic model"

Activities and Societies:

Exchange with Hong Kong University (2003).
Alkwin Kollege

Activities and Societies:

Two-time first runner-up at the Kangaroo Mathematics Contest at Alkwin Kollege, Member of the school team that was first runner-up in the predecessor of the world-famous Spaghetti bridge-building engineering competition, organized by the Technical University Delft.

Additional Information

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Peter Tegelaar’s Interests:

Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Psychology, Dynamical Systems, Econophysics, Empirical Skepticism, Evolutionary Game Theory (esp. w.r.t. Computational Biology), Nanotechnology, Power Laws and Fractals.