Jose Plehn Dujowich, the CEO, Chief Data Officer, and Founder of BrightQuery (BQ) and BQ AI, boasts over ten years of experience working with crucial U.S. statistical agencies, including the IRS, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Small Business Administration (SBA). His expertise spans a range of fields, from economics and finance to data analytics, employment, payroll, and artificial intelligence (AI). In 2019, he established BrightQuery to supply comprehensive firmographics, financials, corporate family trees, and legal information about the U.S. economy. The platform handles data on over 100 million legal entities, 70 million organizations, 150 million employees and business owners, and 250 million locations sourced from regulatory, tax, and legal filings with the IRS, Department of Labor, SBA, SEC, and more than 80,000 government jurisdictions. BrightQuery is poised to celebrate its fifth anniversary in December 2024. In 2023, he initiated BQ AI, a project aimed at developing a super-intelligence to model the global economy, starting with the U.S. This endeavor involves creating a complex system of interacting companies, consumers, households, governments, and events from the ground up, linking the 'micro view' of individual companies and people to the 'macro view' of global economic sectors. His pioneering research in AI and data analytics receives support from the National Science Fund (NSF), where he directs three significant projects. One critical project, "AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use," focuses on how a future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) might offer shared tools and information to make statistical data products more accessible for AI technologies. This could potentially enhance the capabilities of federal agencies and their partners in leveraging generative AI. Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, he was a Senior Advisor and Co-founder of Powerlytics, where he contributed intellectual property essential for aggregating anonymized IRS tax data on U.S. companies and households. His extensive academic career included positions as Faculty and Executive Director of the Fink Center at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he published in prominent journals such as The Accounting Review and Small Business Economics. He also served as an Adjunct Accounting Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Financial Reporting & Management at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. During his tenure at UC Berkeley, he founded the Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy and received the 2015 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award. Before UC Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Temple University's Fox School of Business in Philadelphia, PA, and an Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo, where he co-founded the Journal of Human Capital. Jose Plehn Dujowich earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Science, specializing in Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics, with a minor in Mathematics, from MIT. Born in New York and of Mexican descent, he grew up in Mexico City and Geneva, Switzerland, where he developed a lifelong commitment to enhancing global economic equity and sustainability. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, he and BrightQuery have provided invaluable free reports to small businesses in collaboration with the NFIB and have formed strategic alliances to support the economic landscape further.