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Peter Swartz

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Altana

About

Peter Swartz is co-founder and chief scientist of Altana, where he leads the data-science work behind the company's federated supply-chain AI. Before Altana, Swartz was head of data science at Panjiva, where he built the trade-classification and AI models that anchored the company's product before its 2018 acquisition by S&P Global. He left Panjiva alongside Evan Smith and Raphael Tehranian to start Altana in 2018, betting that supply-chain intelligence had to be built on a privacy-preserving federated architecture rather than a single centralized data lake. His work focuses on graph models of global commerce that learn from billions of shipment, ownership, and facility records.

Previous roles

  • Head of Data Science, Panjiva

Notable work

  • Natural language processing for entity resolution (US20170091320A1; granted as US11514096B2)
  • Nowcasting abstracted census from individual customs transaction records (US11551244B2)
  • Managing Supply and Value Chains in a New Era of Global Trade: The Promise of Federated Learning (World Customs Journal, 2025)

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