Hi,

My name is Paul Haefele, and I run technology at Deep Value Inc (www.deepvalue.net). We traded over 4% of the US stock market earlier this year and trade more than 1% daily. We utilize big data technology (Hadoop) to enable us understand what and how to trade.

We are planning to build an Excel add-in to allow a regular Excel spreadsheet to run across thousands of on-demand machines with little change. We know in finance that this would find substantial use. I would like to briefly chat to Excel developers who are building complex spreadsheets in other industries (insurance, health) to understand their problem domains better. I would ask only for 15 minutes of your time and I am not looking to sell you anything. In exchange I can share with you how Big Data and Hadoop is being used to solve complex simulation problems.

Please reply to this post or reach out to me on paul at deepvalue dot net.

Best regards,
Paul