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Samer Obeidat (born October 29, 1985), is a Jordanian visionary serial entrepreneur, speaker, angel investor and philanthropist. He is the Founder and CEO of Stallion AI, Investifai and Stallion Mark Investments.

Through his innovative genius, he has established several technology-enabled start-ups, most notably Stallion Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a Stallion AI), an Ottawa-based deep learning AI startup that focuses on custom AI solutions, wealth management, document understanding and defense applications across Canada, Europe and the MENA region. Stallion AI has branches in Ottawa, Dubai, Limassol and New York.

He is also the founder of National Bullion House, one of the world’s first financial-technology precious metals platforms to trade spot gold and precious metals deliverable contracts. As at 2016, the National Bullion House possessed over US$1-billion of gold investments.

Driven by his relentless commitment to innovation; Samer Obeidat, along with a group of machine learning scientists and engineers, have started up an Artificial Intelligence Research and Development lab known as Stallion AI which is based in Canada, Cyprus, US and UAE. Stallion AI has developed several cutting edge deep learning technologies across different industries including finance and banking, wealth management, defense and government sector.

The company has established a number of high profile partnerships in the AI industry in Canada and the MENA region, and currently on the path to becoming one of the leading drivers of the AI economy.

In addition to his ever impressive catalogue of start-ups, Samer Obeidat also founded Investifai, which is a deep learning driven investment management company. Investifai is regulated by the Securities & Exchange Commission in the US.

Samer is deeply passionate about economic empowerment and education (especially of youth) as well as poverty alleviation. Through a number of ways, he has given his time and resources to several schemes and programs designed to improve these key areas of interests. Samer Obeidat’s work in driving the adoption of Artificial Intelligence many sectors has drawn global interest and his company has several established links with notable bodies in Canada, Europe, and the MENA region.

He has been a guest on several reputable TV channels to share his thoughts on financial markets ,wealth management and the place of AI in the near and distant future. Obeidat is also a visionary speaker, researcher and AI consultant. He has also been a recipient of a number of honorary awards.

EDUCATION

Samer Obeidat’s tertiary education qualifications include degrees from the Jordan University of Science and Technology where he bagged a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Chemistry. His time at this institution spanned 2003-2008. Between 2015-2017, he studied at Royal Roads University from where he obtained a Master of Global Management (MGM), Portfolio Management using Deep Learning. Samer Obeidat has published in 2018 a research paper on "Adaptive Portfolio Asset Allocation Optimization with Deep Learning" in the International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, vol 11 no 1 & 2, year 2018, http://www.iariajournals.org/intelligent_systems/

The paper is about portfolio management which is a well-known multi-factor optimization problem facing investment advisors. The artificial intelligence system described in this work can assist in automating portfolio management, and improving risk-adjusted returns. The asset allocation action recommendations were personalized to the portfolio under consideration, and were examined empirically in this work in comparison to standard portfolio management techniques. This work presents a Long Short-Term Memory approach to adaptive asset allocation, building upon prior work on training neural networks to model causality. The neural network model discussed in this work ingests historical price data and ingests macroeconomic data and market indicators using Principal Components Analysis. The model then estimates the expected return, volatility, and correlation for the selected assets. These neural network outputs were then turned into action recommendations using a Mean-Variance Optimization framework augmented to use a forward- looking rolling window technique. Testing was performed on a dataset with a 7.66 year duration. The observed mean annualized return for classical passive portfolio management approaches were 4.67%, 3.49%, and 4.57%, with mean Sharpe ratios of 0.46, 0.20, and 0.54. 10 simulations using the new Long Short- Term Memory model from this work provided a mean annualized return of 10.07%, with a Sharpe ratio of 0.98. This work provides the conclusion that a Long Short-Term Memory model can generate better risk-adjusted returns than conventional strategic passive portfolio management. A more sophisticated R&D work has followed which led to the development of a commercial deep learning driven asset management system called Investifai. Investifai is regulated by Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and led by a group of deep learning scientists and quant engineers, and provide an AI powered investment portfolios for high networth investors.

CAREER

Samer Obeidat’s work, investment and start-up career has been spread across the diverse sectors of investment management, financial technology and artificial intelligence research and development. These endeavors have taken him across several continents. Between 2009-2013, he worked as a gold markets analyst, investment associate and operations manager at some of the top gold brokerage firms in the Middle East and Turkey. During this time, he greatly contributed to the expansion of the gold operations in the UAE, KSA, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and Kuwait. In May 2013, Samer founded National Bullion House. This company offered investors, for the first time, the ability to trade platinum and spots deliverable contracts via an online trading platform in the regions of MENA, Turkey and Europe. Samer was able to establish several key business relationships and in this period and was invited by different TV channels in the MENA region to give an expert opinion on gold market trends. By the time he sold his shares of the company to private investors in 2016, Samer had made the company to be recognized as a major player in the precious metals global marketplace, with operations in eight international countries, and a trading volume of multiple tonnes per week. Samer’s next venture was in December 2017 when he founded Investifai, a company that combines the worlds of financial engineering and machine learning sciences to work for investors through the application of compelling empirical research into real world Artificial Intelligence driven investment management solutions. Investifai remains the only Artificial Intelligence driven asset management company to perform core-satellite investment management using deep learning technology to achieve absolute returns. In February 2018, Samer founded Stallion AI which provides Artificial Intelligence services, solutions and products to help organizations across different industries to implement Artificial Intelligence in the world today. It is Samer’s dream that through Stallion AI, the world’s future economy can be empowered by helping enterprises rapidly apply AI and machine learning to achieve short and long term goals and create additional value.

OTHER PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

Samer Obeidat is involved in a number of non-business related activities. Since February 2019, he has been a member of Young Arab leaders, an organization committed to inspiring the Arab youth to develop leadership qualities and transform lives. Youth empowerment is a defining theme of Samer’s life and where possible, he seeks to set up capacity building schemes. This much can be seen in the Artificial Intelligence workshops he put together for youths via Stallion AI. These workshops are held in conjunction with the University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering in Canada.

FAMILY

Samer Obeidat is happily married to Hanane Ouri. Both of them share a deep love for philanthropy and via the Stallion Mark foundation and Ouri Foundation, they both have been involved in a number of philanthropic activities, enriching the lives of countless others.

HONORS

Hard work, especially innovative hard work such as Samer embodies does not go without recognition. His contributions have been duly rewarded by recognized institutions. In April 2017, Royal Roads University bestowed on Samer “LEADERSHIP AWARD" for having most positively and comprehensively contributed to the success of the cohorts through strategic direction, motivation and game plan. Also in May 2018, the Royal Roads University Founders' Award (which recognizes the impact of one alumnus in a degree graduating set for embodying leadership traits and personality development) was awarded to him. In December of the same year, the next feather in his cap would be handed to him during the United Arabs Emirates Ministry of Economy Artificial Intelligence Seminar for his role as a participant and presenter of “Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth. But how, exactly?”. This seminar was delivered to over 150 senior government officials and business leaders from the United Arabs Emirates.