Jose Plehn Dujowich

Jose Plehn Dujowich is the CEO, Chief Data Officer, and Founder of BrightQuery (BQ) and BQ AI. With a decade of academic work alongside U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Small Business Administration (SBA), his expertise spans economics, finance, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI). In 2019, he established BrightQuery to offer extensive data on over 100 million legal entities, 70 million organizations, 150 million employees and business owners, and 250 million locations in the U.S., sourced from various regulatory, tax, and legal filings. In 2023, he launched BQ AI, aiming to construct a super-intelligence of the global economy, starting with the U.S. This initiative plans to integrate the "micro view" of specific companies and individuals with the "macro view" of regions, industries, and governments, by modeling the economy as a complex system of interacting entities. Jose's research efforts are supported by the National Science Fund (NSF), where he directs projects such as "AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use." This project explores the potential capabilities of a future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) to enhance the accessibility of statistical data for AI applications, aiding federal agencies and their partners in leveraging generative AI responsibly. Before his entrepreneurial journey, he was deeply embedded in academia. He served as Senior Advisor and Co-founder of Powerlytics, where he contributed intellectual property. This firm provides comprehensive, anonymized IRS data on U.S. companies and households. His academic tenure includes roles such as Faculty and Executive Director at the UCLA Anderson School of Management's Fink Center and publishing in notable journals like The Accounting Review and Small Business Economics. He also spearheaded the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA) as an Adjunct Accounting Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he received the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award. Earlier in his career, he was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo. During his time at SUNY Buffalo, he co-founded the Journal of Human Capital. Educationally, he has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from MIT. Born in New York to a Mexican family, he spent his early years in Mexico City and later moved to Geneva, Switzerland. His upbringing in a family involved with the United Nations instilled in him a deep commitment to aiding the global economy and addressing economic disparities. Jose Plehn Dujowich is multilingual, fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and continues to support small businesses by providing free reports in collaboration with entities like the NFIB and BAI.