Jose Plehn Dujowich, the CEO, Chief Data Officer, and Founder of BrightQuery (BQ) and BQ AI, boasts over ten years of collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies, including the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). His broad expertise covers areas such as economics, finance, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). In 2019, he established BrightQuery to deliver detailed firmographics, financials, corporate family trees, and legal data on the U.S. economy, with a database that includes information on over 100 million legal entities and 250 million locations sourced from a myriad of regulatory, tax, and legal filings.
In 2023, he initiated BQ AI with the vision of creating a super-intelligence model of the global economy, starting with the U.S. This project aims to synthesize detailed micro-level data of companies and individuals with the broader macro-level economic landscape, employing BQ's extensive proprietary database for modeling.
His engagement with artificial intelligence and data analytics extends to directing three significant projects funded by the National Science Fund (NSF). One notable project, "AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use," investigates how a future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) could enhance the availability of statistical data for AI technologies, potentially transforming how federal agencies and their partners utilize generative AI.
Before venturing into entrepreneurship, he was a Senior Advisor and Co-founder at Powerlytics, where he was instrumental in providing anonymized IRS tax data on U.S. companies and households. His academic career includes significant roles such as Faculty and Executive Director at the Fink Center of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Adjunct Accounting Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. During his tenure at UC Berkeley, he founded the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA) and was honored with the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award.
Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and of Economics at SUNY Buffalo, where he also contributed to founding the Journal of Human Capital. His advisory roles have included serving on the board for the Business, Technology, and Engineering Division at Berkeley Extension and as a member of the Society of Chief Data Officers at MIT.
He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Science and Economics from MIT. Born in New York to a Mexican family and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, his multicultural background and multilingual abilities in English, Spanish, and French underscore his global perspective. He is committed to reducing economic inequality and aiding the global economy, as evidenced by his efforts to provide free business reports in collaboration with the NFIB and BAI.
Portfolio: https://joseplehndujowich.com/
