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The Shortcut to Superior Investment Research

MDO cleans, organizes, and delivers investment data into your workflows with speed and fidelity — so you can focus on the research, not the plumbing.

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MDO Software Development Kit

Who We Serve

Dealing with complex investment data workflows?

MDO was built for investment teams who need their data ready to work — not cleaned up manually every cycle.

SQL Server & Snowflake Data

You have data in SQL Server or Snowflake that you want to evaluate with speed and fidelity.

Open-Source Workflows

You would like to unlock the power of open-source programming (R / Python) for your investment research.

Unlimited Backtesting

You need the ability to run backtests with no limit on the size of data you are evaluating.

The MDO Advantage

MDO: the Shortcut to Superior Research

Getting your investment data cleaned, organized, and ready for backtesting is the most time-intensive part of the financial modeling process. MDO gets your data into your workflows with ease.

90%
faster than developing and maintaining SQL code manually
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You can rely on MDO to:

  1. Make sure you're using your data accurately and that your workflows scale.
  2. Be experts of your data-vendor schemas and develop the underlying SQL for your SDK.
  3. Evaluate new data sets and factors in a fraction of the time.
  4. Schedule your new factor workflows in production so they're always current.
How It Works

Our Approach

We integrate deeply with your data stack so you can move from idea to implementation faster.

Deep Vendor Expertise

We partner with data vendors so we can become experts of their schemas and develop the underlying SQL powering our SDK.

You Keep Your Relationships

You maintain the relationship with your data providers and use MDO to curate your current data.

Rapid Data Evaluation

When you're ready to evaluate new content, MDO's workflows let you evaluate data sets in a shorter period of time.

Production Scheduling

You can rely on MDO to schedule your new factor workflows in production so your data is always current and ready to use.

Client Results

Trusted by Investment Teams

Given a tight timeline, our team faced the challenge of migrating our investment data modeling. MDO made it possible to meet our deadline.
Investment Team — 25+ Year Tenure
With MDO we are able to build new models using many new complex data sources. It's 90% faster than developing and maintaining SQL code.
MDO User — Top Ten US Pension Fund
MDO is a nimble and time-aware data integration platform with built-in business intelligence.
Bala Ragothaman — CTO, LSV Asset Management
Leadership

The Team Behind MDO

Patrick Howerter

Patrick Howerter

CEO & Co-Founder
Eddie Sylvester, CFA

Eddie Sylvester, CFA

Director of Client Services & Co-Founder
Charles Fann, CFA

Charles Fann, CFA

Chief Technology Officer
Steve Talken

Steve Talken

Director of Sales & Business Development

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Patrick Howerter

Patrick Howerter

CEO & Co-Founder

Patrick brings extensive knowledge developing and supporting quantitative software applications. He has been the lead architect and developer of multiple platforms that connect open source software with financial databases, allowing fundamental and quantitative researchers to do their jobs more efficiently.

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Eddie Sylvester, CFA

Eddie Sylvester, CFA

Director of Client Services & Co-Founder

Eddie is a co-founder of MDO and serves as Director of Client Solutions, where he leads client support, product management, and the overall user experience for MDO products. He brings over 20 years of expertise with financial databases, combining a strong product management background with advanced programming skills in SQL, R, and Python. Since 2004, Eddie has worked extensively with LSEG Quantitative Analytics / QA Direct, S&P Xpressfeed, and FactSet, holding roles as a product specialist, quality assurance analyst, product manager, client-side user, and consultant. Having worked with these products from every angle, he is an expert in both the nuances of equity research and the usability needs of clients.

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Charles Fann, CFA

Charles Fann, CFA

Chief Technology Officer

Charles brings over 17 years of experience working at the intersection of investments and technology. He spent the bulk of his career at a quantitative equity investment management firm where he led the development of the firm's core investment technology and data architecture that supported the entire quant research process. Charles' keen interest and experience in technology combined with his deep understanding of quantitative investing plays a key role in furthering MDO's offerings.

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Steve Talken

Steve Talken

Director of Sales & Business Development

Steve has spent his career working with asset managers and hedge funds focused on data across global equities and fixed income used within quantitative research. Steve brings a focus on developing client relationships and helping clients improve their workflows. Steve has a M.S. in Finance from University of Colorado. Steve has worked at Thomson Financial and Refinitiv in various client facing roles from client support to proposition sales. He began his career supporting products such as MarketQA and Refinitiv Quantitative Analytics / QA Direct. He later transitioned to a sales role where he was responsible for leading numerous enterprise deals with some of the largest asset managers in the industry.

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