Jose Plehn Dujowich is the innovative founder, CEO, and Chief Data Officer of BrightQuery (BQ) and BQ AI. He is renowned for his decade-plus expertise with top U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Small Business Administration (SBA). His proficiency spans a broad spectrum of fields, including economics, finance, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and more.

In 2019, he launched BrightQuery to supply comprehensive firmographics, financials, corporate family trees, and legal data concerning the U.S. economy. This platform manages extensive data from over 100 million legal entities, 70 million organizations, 150 million employees and business owners, and 250 million locations, all derived from regulatory, tax, and legal filings. BrightQuery is set to mark its fifth anniversary in December 2024.

Jose also spearheaded the creation of BQ AI in 2023. This ambitious project aims to develop a super-intelligence focused on the global economy, starting with the U.S. It integrates data at the atomic level, modeling interactions across companies, consumers, households, governments, and events to merge micro and macroeconomic perspectives.

Under his guidance, BQ AI is part of three major NSF-funded projects, including a notable initiative titled "AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use." This project is designed to assist in the development of a future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) that could enhance the utility of statistical data products for AI applications, potentially revolutionizing how federal agencies and their partners use generative AI.

Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Jose was a co-founder and senior advisor at Powerlytics, where he played a crucial role in offering anonymized IRS tax data for U.S. entities. His academic journey included prestigious positions such as the Faculty and Executive Director at UCLA Anderson School of Management's Fink Center, and he has published extensively in various peer-reviewed journals.

He also held significant roles at UC Berkeley as an Adjunct Accounting Professor and as the Executive Director of the Center for Financial Reporting & Management. There, he founded the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA) and received the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award.

Before his tenure at UC Berkeley, Jose was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Temple University's Fox School of Business and an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo, where he contributed to the founding of the Journal of Human Capital.

Jose earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Science and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from MIT. Born in New York and of Mexican descent, he grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, and is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.

For the past two years, Jose Plehn Dujowich and BrightQuery have been instrumental in providing free economic reports to small businesses in collaboration with the NFIB and BAI, demonstrating his ongoing commitment to enhancing economic understanding and development.