Summary
Seth Ely is a data and risk analytics leader with 12 years of experience building production credit and pricing models across finance and automotive marketplaces, currently serving as VP of Risk Analytics at OneMain Financial. He blends a PhD-level quantitative foundation with product-minded execution, championing modular tech stacks that let modelers own algorithms end-to-end and prioritizing measured business impact over tool orthodoxy. His prior models powered a £75M loan portfolio and a pricing IP that helped drive a $43M acquisition, showing a rare combination of technical rigor and commercial outcomes. Based in Greater Chicago, he frames analytics as an interdisciplinary craft—uniting statistics, OR, ML, DSP and simulation—to push ideas from prototype to measurable value while building cross-functional support to scale them.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Ohio University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign