Contact

Name: Peter Tegelaar
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email:  peter dot tegelaar at Google’s little mail service

About Me

I am a tech entrepreneur and applied statistician. My major interest is understanding people’s behavior – with a flair for business impact – especially through applying sophisticated statistical techniques to large data sets. Currently, I am the cofounder of Newcope, a company that helps virtual goods providers increase revenue.

My work includes the construction – from scratch, in Ruby (on Rails) with C extensions – of the original Wakoopa recommendation engine, the co-founding of personalization startup Reccoon (runner-up in the Strands $100,000 Call for Recommender Startups), and working as an analyst at hedge fund DeepBlueCapital. Also, I’ve done original empirical research in behavioural economics, will publish a statistical paper that implements a novel deconvolution algortihm in R, and am the coauthor of a medical paper on Achilles tendon ruptures.

I hold a master (Economics, cum laude), three bachelors (Mathematics and Statistics, Economics and Business, Law), and two minors (Physics, Computer Science) from the University of Amsterdam.