François Chesnay
Course Facilitator At Stanford (SCGOE)
Jersey
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois Chesnay is a multidisciplinary finance and AI advisor with 11+ years of experience across venture capital, hedge funds, and alternative investments, currently serving as a non-executive director for a $4.5bn fixed-income relative-value fund and as a Stanford course facilitator in Natural Language Processing. He combines deep financial-engineering roots—beginning with research at the Bank of France and senior roles at KPMG, State Street and Ogier—with hands-on AI and data-science practice through his consultancy Alca.ai and government-impact analytics work. François has led complex restructurings, cross-border asset recoveries and fund structuring while advising tech investors on deal design and exit strategies, showing a rare blend of operational crisis management and strategic capital allocation. Academically diverse, he holds degrees from Paris-Dauphine, LSE and Chicago Booth plus a Stanford AI certificate, and maintains active engagement with machine learning courses and applied NLP education. Notably, he has built and sold a Python-based fintech product early in his career, underscoring entrepreneurial pragmatism alongside his institutional expertise.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Chartered Accountant, Chartered Accountant at Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and WalesMBA, Strategy, MBA, Strategy at The University of Chicago - Booth School of BusinessDEA - MPhil, Finance (Financial Theory), DEA - MPhil, Finance (Financial Theory) at Faculté de Finance, Banque, ComptabilitéMaitrise, Economics: capital markets and financial theory, Maitrise, Economics: capital markets and financial theory at Université Paris Dauphine - PSLCAIA candidate Level IIMachine learning, Machine learning at Machine learning courses and MOOC at UCL, Stanford, Coursera, Fast.ai and MLcourse.aiMSc, Accounting and Finance, MSc, Accounting and Finance at London School of Economics and Political SciencePhd in Economics (drop out), Contagions, financial and banking crises, Phd in Economics (drop out), Contagions, financial and banking crises at Sorbonne UniversityGraduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science at Stanford University
French, English
Github Skills (12)
visual10
novel10
renpy9
engine9
python8
game-engine6
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
graphical-models2
browser1
probabilistic-graphical-models1
probabilistic1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chesnay/chesnay.github.io
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
chesnay/chesnay
Nov 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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