About Increase Alpha
The practitioner
behind the signal.
Sid Ghatak spent three decades at the intersection of markets, data, enterprise technology, and artificial intelligence. Increase Alpha is where those disciplines became one system.

- 30+ years
- Finance, analytics & AI
- $3T
- Annual transaction activity informed
- 1,500+
- Students taught
- 80
- Federal Reserve finance leaders trained
Experience
One career. Three institutional worlds.
Capital Markets
Early equity research, banking, global M&A analytics, and institutional decision systems across markets.
Enterprise Data
IBM, Accenture, and LSEG / Refinitiv — leading production analytics platforms and enterprise transformation.
Public-Sector AI
GSA, FERC, the Federal AI Capability Maturity Model, and expert witness before the U.S. Congress.
“The model is only useful if the institution can trust how it was built.”
Selected credentials / Trust ledger
- United States Congress
- Expert Technical Witness on Artificial Intelligence
- GSA / Federal AI Strategy
- Author of Federal AI Capability and Governance policies
- LSEG / Refinitiv
- Platform leadership and product strategy
- JPMorgan Chase
- Analytics, data architecture, and decision systems
- Accenture
- Data & AI advisory, enterprise transformation
- IBM
- Enterprise systems, data platforms, and analytics
- Merck
- Data strategy and advanced analytics
- Northrop Grumman
- Analytics systems and decision support
Educator / Builder
He did not just build systems. He taught others to build them.
Developed Villanova’s three-semester Master’s Certificate Program in Business Intelligence.
Taught more than 1,500 students.
Authored 43 Accenture Academy courses.
Semester 1
Data Foundations & Analytics
Semester 2
Business Intelligence & Data Engineering
Semester 3
Advanced Analytics & AI Applications
- 1,500+
- Students taught
- 3
- Semesters
- 43
- Accenture Academy courses
See what three decades of institutional practice built.
For institutional use only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.