Synmax is the second geospatial company from legendary energy trader Bill Perkins that I have profiled (the first was app.skyfi.com). Finally I can say we have gotten into spatial finance. Eric Anderson CFA, their CTO, was a very stimulating guest. I especially appreciated his willingness to cover the philosophical side of the AI question towards the end. Eric also had fantastic advice for an apprentice for the final question.
Overall I feel incredibly proud to have gotten to this point with the podcast. I have had a very strong interest in spatial finance since the field emerged a couple of years ago, but always felt the academic version of it was deficient. Yes, environmental implications of finance are important, but I don't see a reason not to simply call this Environmental Finance. So, Synmax is real spatial finance - using remote sensing and spatial analysis to gain a trading edge. What made it all the more meaningful to me was to have this interview with a chartered financial analyst. This is someone who has survived an exam with a 30% pass rate.
More about Bill Perkins: https://spearswms.com/wealth/natural-gas-trader-bill-perkins/. He runs Skylar Capital: https://skylarcapitalmanagement.com/. Eric mentioned Synmax is in the process of acquiring Gas Vista: https://gasvista.com/. They have a nice map animation of ships they track: https://leviaton.com/login/?next=/, a function Eric said Synmax will integrate into their offering.
Where to next? Well, Gabe gave me a SAR image of London in the last episode. Unfortunately it wasn't autographed by Joe Morrison, maybe Luke Fischer didn't ask for one on my behalf after all (check the Skyfi interview for the reference!) But I feel something is building here if I do my homework.
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