Sivert Bocianowski

Sivert Bocianowski, now publicly named Sivert Poulsson Beer, is a Norwegian mathematician and data scientist based in Oslo. A two-time International Mathematical Olympiad contestant for Norway (2008 and 2009, honourable mention both years), he studied theoretical mathematics at the University of Oslo (bachelor 2010-2015) with an exchange year in mathematics/cryptography at the University of Warsaw (2013), then completed a master's in mathematics at UiO (2018-2019). He worked as an actuary at If Insurance (2020-2021), held a Quantitative Researcher role at the Oslo fintech Exabel (2021-2022) alongside an Investment Associate role at the investment company AWC AS (2021-2023), and was a Data Scientist at insurer Fremtind (2023-2025). Since around September 2025 he has been a Manager in BearingPoint's Data Science & AI team in Oslo.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Supported identity: the LinkedIn slug sivert-bocianowski-6224b464 (index label taiga-408010376) now resolves to Sivert Poulsson Beer (b. 1990, Oslo), the same olympiad contestant (IMO 2008 & 2009, Norway) - a continuous numeric profile ID links the two names. Actual roles, not student programmes: (1) Quantitative Researcher, Exabel, Oslo, 2021-04 to 2022-04 (index/LinkedIn backbone) - a real quantitative research role, but Exabel is an alternative-data analytics/fintech vendor selling data to investment teams, NOT a fund, bank trading desk, market-maker or proprietary trader. (2) Investment Associate, AWC AS, 2021-2023 - a genuine investment role at the Norwegian investment company (Awilhelmsen family office), whose group wholly owns SRN AS, a 'Norwegian quantitative research and trading technology company' that runs the Sherwood Fund's proprietary trading platform and quantitative research/trade execution, plus Sherwood Research UK Ltd (one quant researcher). So quantitative-finance exposure exists at the group level and via an explicitly quantitative role title, but no evidence places him personally at SRN, on a trading desk, or at a bank/asset-manager/energy/crypto trading firm. Earlier actuarial work at If Insurance (2020-2021) is quantitative but insurance, not markets. Verdict CONFIRMED on the existence of actual quantitative employment; employer classification is analytics-vendor plus family-office investment group with an in-group systematic-trading subsidiary, not a hedge fund or market-maker.May 2026
• Same LinkedIn numeric ID (6224b464) now resolves to the name 'Sivert Poulsson Beer' (b. 1990), so the olympiad-era name Sivert Bocianowski and the current public name are the same person; both carry the identical profile slug.
• AWC AS, his employer 2021-2023, sits inside the Awilhelmsen Group, which wholly owns SRN AS (org.no. 933 341 259), 'a Norwegian quantitative research and trading technology company' that develops a proprietary trading platform and conducts quantitative research and trade execution for the Sherwood Fund (a Luxembourg SICAV-RAIF), plus Sherwood Research UK Ltd which exists to employ one UK-based quantitative researcher. His employer's group therefore does operate a genuine systematic-trading outfit, though his own title was Investment Associate at the holding/investment level, not at SRN.May 2026
• Joined BearingPoint as Manager in its Data Science & AI team (Oslo); a BearingPoint welcome post dates the start, and his own post marks the move from Fremtind. Suggests a step up from in-house data scientist to consulting leadership.Sep 2025
• Held a Quantitative Researcher role at Exabel (Oslo fintech) 2021-2022 concurrently with an Investment Associate role at AWC AS (an investment company); the concurrency suggests overlapping part-time or advisory engagements rather than two simultaneous full-time posts.
• Was a Data Scientist at Norwegian insurer Fremtind (pricing/customer team) from 2023 until leaving for BearingPoint; coworkers publicly praised his ML work there.Sep 2025
• Exabel is an alternative-data analytics/fintech platform for investment teams (raised $9m seed led by AWC), not a hedge fund, market-maker, or proprietary trading firm - so the 'Quantitative Researcher' title there is data/analytics work, not trading-desk employment.Mar 10, 2021
• Exabel and AWC are the same investment ecosystem: AWC led Exabel's $9m seed round and AWC's CEO Arve Ree is tied to Exabel's board/team. His 2021-2022 Exabel Quantitative Researcher role and 2021-2023 AWC Investment Associate role therefore sit inside one Awilhelmsen-backed network rather than being two independent moves, which suggests the roles were related engagements.Mar 10, 2021
• AWC AS is a Norwegian investment company (family office of the AWilhelmsen group) making long-term private and listed equity investments; his title there was Investment Associate, an investing role, not a quantitative trading role.Mar 2026
• Represented Norway at the International Mathematical Olympiad in both 2008 and 2009, winning an honourable mention (HM) each year - a two-time national-team olympiad contestant.Jul 2009
• Norwegian media (Teknisk Ukeblad) covered him as a maths talent from Ski in 2008; a local paper reported he would begin mathematics and informatics studies at the University of Oslo.Jul 2008
• Worked as an Actuary at If Insurance (If P&C) 2020-2021, between his master's and the Exabel/AWC period - quantitative insurance work that predates the investment roles.