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Alon Stern

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Founder at Turnstay

City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

FoundedTurnstay

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About

Alon Stern is the founder and CEO of TurnStay, a travel payments company focused on reducing the cost of cross-border card processing. He previously founded Slide Financial and led the data team at Prodigy Finance, and earlier developed climate models at Princeton University's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He holds a PhD in mathematics and oceanography from NYU's Courant Institute and has authored 17 published papers as a PhD candidate and postdoc at Princeton University.

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CV VCZug · $1 – $500K checksDFS LabParis · $50K – $1M checksDigital Currency GroupNew YorkEnza Capital$250K – $5M checksFirst CircleCasablanca · $100K – $250K checksIncisive VenturesSeattle · $250K – $500K checksTLcom CapitalNairobi · $500K – $10M checks

Experience

  1. TurnStayFoundercurrent2022 — present
  2. Base13Data Consultant2022 — 2024Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  3. Prodigy FinanceHead of Data and Analytics2020 — 2022
  4. Prodigy FinanceData Scientist2020 — 2022Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  5. Prodigy FinanceData Engineer2019 — 2020Cape Town Area, South Africa
  6. SlideFounder2017 — 2020Cape Town South Africa
  7. Princeton UniversityPostdoctoral Research Fellow2015 — 2016Princeton
  8. New York UniversityPhD in Applied Mathematics2009 — 2014

Skills & more

LeadershipInfrastructure3Data Science1Data Management1Mathematical Modeling5Python5Software Development5Applied Mathematics4Physical Oceanography3Matlab3Fortran3Data Analysis3
+11 moreEntrepreneurshipPython (Programming Language)MATLABData EngineeringResearchTechnical PresentationsMathematicsData AnalyticsSoftware Engineering PracticesProject ManagementClimate Modeling
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty — Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • A Complete Reinforcement Learning System (Capstone) — Coursera
  • Prediction and Control with Function Approximation — Coursera
  • Sample-based Learning Methods — Coursera
  • Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning — Coursera
  • Reinforcement Learning Specialization — Coursera

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Who is Alon Stern?
Alon Stern is the founder and CEO of TurnStay, a travel payments company focused on reducing the cost of cross-border card processing. He previously founded Slide Financial and led the data team at Prodigy Finance, and earlier developed climate models at Princeton University's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He holds a PhD in mathematics and oceanography from NYU's Courant Institute and has authored 17 published papers as a PhD candidate and postdoc at Princeton University.
Where does Alon Stern work?
Alon Stern is Founder of Turnstay.
What companies did Alon Stern found?
Alon Stern founded Turnstay.
Where did Alon Stern go to school?
Alon Stern studied at Princeton University (Postdoctural Researcher, Oceanography); New York University.

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