About

Youssef Essaegh is a highly skilled investment banking research analyst with over 13 years of experience in corporate finance, financial modeling and analysis, presentation, and report writing. He is currently a Senior Advisor at AltRaise, a financial advisory boutique that offers sustainable investing solutions to entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and organizations in the financial services industry. Prior to AltRaise, Youssef served as a Director of Product Management at Sentieo, where he led the effort for their Financial Data products and other strategic initiatives around the research analyst workflow. During his tenure, he successfully delivered a feature-rich Financial Data roadmap that contributed to a user growth of 10x over the past 4 years. He also played a key role in bringing powerful new features for the analyst workflow to market, including Machine Learning and NLP-based alternative datasets that automatically extract key trends and sentiment from financial documents and crowd-sourced big data. Youssef has a strong educational background, having obtained a Master's degree in Finance - Financial Techniques in Corporate Finance, Market Finance from ESSEC Business School and a degree in Fundamental Research from UNSW. He also holds a Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications from ISEP - école d'ingénieurs du numérique and a BSc in Electronics from Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). He completed his general studies, mathematics, physics, biology education with a Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Lyautey. Youssef is a highly motivated individual who is always seeking new challenges. He is currently exploring the feasibility of his own disruptive start-up ideas. He is skilled in product management, research science, integration, NLP, big data, ML, search, and web technologies. His extensive experience and expertise make him a valuable asset to any organization looking to leverage his skills in venture capital or business development.