“Jeffrey is a strong leader, a technical visionary, brilliant, and highly personable. I profited from every encounter with him.” (former colleague, November, 2005)

“Jeffrey brings his deep knowledge of our business, his creativity, and his clear and calm communication style to all our meetings, be they with senior managers, business-users or risk-analysts ” (former client, February, 2006)

Contact:

 

Jeffrey Axelrod
2753 22nd Street
San Francisco , CA 94110
415.606.2465
jeffrey . axelrod at cuttingcode . com
skype: wisdom_jax

 

 

Jeffrey Axelrod is a business and technology executive who has spent his career building bridges between these two domains. For the past 15 years he has been deeply involved in the business processes of financial services organizations, conceiving, designing, and building technology in the areas of portfolio management, portfolio reporting and analytics, corporate actions, pricing, and partnership accounting, among other areas.

Jeffrey is the founding Chief Technology Officer of Cogency Software, a supplier of business intelligence solutions for hedge funds and fund of funds. He started that company in 2002, with the goal of building vertical-market analytics and operations solutions that end-users could customize on their own. Today, Cogency has one of the most comprehensive accounting and operations packages for Funds of Hedge Funds. Prior to joining Cogency, Jeffrey was vice president of development and chief architect at TenFold Corporation, a provider of application-building technologies used by many of the world's top companies in financial services, energy, insurance, and telecommunications. Prior to that, he served as chief technology officer and vice president of development at Financial Technologies International (now GoldenSource), a provider of enterprise data management solutions for financial services companies.

Jeffrey holds a BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin , and an advanced degree from Columbia University  where he also held a teaching position in the Computer Technology and Applications division for six years.

Education:

  • Columbia University , New York
    • Post-graduate degree in Computer Technology and Applications
  • Beloit College , Beloit , Wisconsin
    • Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
  • Bronx High School of Science, Bronx , New York

Other facts about Jeffrey

  • Member of Board of Directors, Chochmat Ha'Lev, Berkeley, CA
  • Member of the “CTO Club” – 8 years of monthly gatherings with technology visionaries from around the SF Bay Area
  • Founder, NY Smalltalk User Group
  • Former dancer with the Trisha Brown Company and ODC/SanFrancisco
  • Fluent in English, Italian, Spanish, and (once) French
  • Artist using fiber and fabric mediums