Daniel Nadler


Daniel Joseph Nadler is a Canadian-born poet, technology entrepreneur, and film producer. He is the founder of Kensho Technologies, which, according to Forbes, became the most valuable privately owned artificial intelligence company in history when it was acquired by S&P Global for $550 million in 2018.

Education

Nadler received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2016; his doctoral thesis involved new econometric and statistical approaches to modeling low probability, high impact events.

Kensho Technologies

In 2013, while still a Ph.D. student at Harvard University, Nadler founded Kensho Technologies, an artificial intelligence company that developed machine learning systems for Fortune 500 companies, as well as for ballistic missile defense early warning applications for the United States Department of Defense. Kensho's first investor was Google. In 2017, at Davos, Kensho was named by the World Economic Forum as "one of most innovative and impactful technology companies in the world". In 2018 Kensho became, according to Forbes, the most valuable privately owned artificial intelligence company in history when it was acquired by S&P Global for $550 million in 2018.

Poetry

At Harvard University Nadler studied with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham while completing his Ph.D. in statistical and mathematical fields. Nadler's debut collection of poetry, Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016 and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR.
In 2018 Nadler was elected to the board of directors of the Academy of American Poets, becoming the youngest person ever to be elected to the Academy's Board in its 85-year history.

Film

In 2018 Nadler co-financed and served as executive producer on Motherless Brooklyn, a crime drama film written, produced and directed by Edward Norton based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem. Norton also stars in the film, along with Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis, and Alec Baldwin. The film premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival, as well as the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, and was selected as the closing film of the 2019 New York Film Festival. In 2019 Nadler co-financed and served as producer on the upcoming drama Palmer, starring Justin Timberlake, which is slated for release in 2020.