Jose Plehn Dujowich

Jose Plehn Dujowich is the founder, CEO, and Chief Data Officer of BrightQuery (BQ) and BQ AI. He leverages over a decade of academic experience with key U.S. statistical agencies, including the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Small Business Administration (SBA). His extensive expertise spans economics, finance, data analytics, AI, and various other critical economic metrics.

In 2019, he established BrightQuery to offer detailed firmographics, financials, corporate family trees, and legal data on the U.S. economy, encompassing over 100 million legal entities and 250 million locations, all compiled from extensive regulatory, tax, and legal filings. The company is approaching its fifth anniversary with significant contributions to economic data intelligence.

In 2023, BQ AI was inception, a forward-thinking initiative aimed at creating a super-intelligence model of the global economy, beginning with the U.S. This project is focused on meticulously modeling the dynamic interactions within the economy, linking detailed micro views of individual entities to macro views encompassing entire industries and government operations.

His pioneering work in AI and data analytics has led to his direction of three significant NSF-funded projects, notably one developing "AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use," which aims to enhance how statistical data products are integrated and utilized by AI technologies, assisting federal agencies and their partners in maximizing the potential of generative AI.

Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, he co-founded Powerlytics, where he contributed to providing anonymized IRS tax data, aiding countless U.S. businesses and households. His academic career was marked by prestigious positions such as the Faculty and Executive Director of the Fink Center at UCLA Anderson School of Management and as an Adjunct Accounting Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he also initiated the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA) and received the esteemed 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award.

Earlier roles included appointments as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Temple University's Fox School of Business and as an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo, where he helped establish the Journal of Human Capital.

His academic foundation is robust, with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and dual bachelor's degrees in Management Science and Economics from MIT. Born in New York of Mexican descent and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, his global upbringing instilled a deep commitment to economic equity and environmental stewardship, fluently speaking English, Spanish, and French.