Raised by musical parents, Adia’s love for harmony and storytelling was shaped early, and today she continues to honor that legacy. As a “girl’s girl,” she is passionate about building a culture of unity and collaboration among women in gospel, with major female features on the horizon and a vision to open more doors for others coming behind her. She also gives back by teaching and mentoring young artists through the Maitland Conservatory, helping future creatives find their voice and purpose.
He's not the only ADIA quant to experiment with facial recognition; others have used it in a financial context. Alexis Marchal, who has been a quant at ADIA since 2021, to analyze video from Federal Open Markets Committee conferences to predict the market volatility. Marchal's model looked at how often FOMC chair Janet Yellen would look at internal documents when answering complex questions in the Q&A. Using the weight of turkeys to predict market volatility may pose more of a challenge...
ADIA benefits from an extensive network of relationships from across the private equity world and, as a result, we have excellent access to other investors, bankers, subject matter experts and many others. We enjoy an active, ongoing dialogue with them, we travel extensively and also host them here in Abu Dhabi, which gives us tremendous visibility on what is happening in private equity on a global scale.
