Summary
Stewart Wright is an AI and data science executive and founder with a PhD in physics and over a decade of experience translating complex quantitative models into lasting commercial products across finance and real estate. He has led teams that produced mission-critical systems still used by major banks and regulators—think 40-year OTC forecasts, house price indices informing Reserve Bank rate decisions, and AVMs used by lenders across Australia, NZ and the UK. As President of the Q Group and founder of Vifortech Solutions, he blends rigorous academic training with entrepreneurial delivery, routinely producing >10x ROI from analytics initiatives. His career spans senior roles in incumbents and consultancies (KPMG, CoreLogic, IAG, Westpac), where he built GenAI-first client solutions, model governance frameworks and stress-testing engines that improved regulatory compliance. Stewart’s work combines deep probabilistic modelling, ML/NLP and productisation skills with practical RegTech and PropTech applications, and he’s known for mentoring distributed teams to operationalise research. Less obvious: he repeatedly moves models from R&D into regulated production environments, retaining both scientific rigor and commercial defensibility.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of Adelaide