Mark is Chief Investment Officer at the Institute for Advanced Study, an endowment supporting a community of scholars in Princeton, New Jersey. Prior to joining IAS, he served as Director of Asset Allocation and Risk at the Ford Foundation.

A Senior Investment Strategist and Financial Data Scientist at NN Investment Partners, Prasenjeet works closely with NNIP’s investment teams to drive innovation across the investment methodology and asset allocation process. His approach blends a fundamental investment style with empirical data-driven insights and behavioral analysis.

Mick is co-manager of the Brown Global Leaders fund at Brown Advisory. He joined the firm from HSBC Global Asset Management where he was Co-Head of Asian Equities, responsible for managing a team of Portfolio Managers and Research Analysts.

Charles is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and the best-selling author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, which explores the science of habit formation in our lives, companies and societies. His newest book Smarter, Better, Faster is a fascinating exploration of the science of productivity, and why, in today’s world, managing how you think – rather than what you think – can transform outcomes and performance.

A Senior Vice President at Callan, Sara advises investment committees and fund sponsors on a wide range of manager allocation issues, including best-practice and excellence in manager selection, performance monitoring, and investment structure design. Prior to Callan, she worked at Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting, Vanguard and Watson Wyatt Worldwide (Willis Towers Watson).

Tim is Head of U.S. Institutional Business and a member of the Executive Team at Brown Advisory. His team is responsible for equity and fixed income research, portfolio management, and institutional sales and service. Prior to this, Tim was Brown’s director of research and institutional investment.

CEO and Director of Research at Athena Invest, Dr. Howard is a Professor Emeritus at the Reiman School of Finance, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver where he taught and published articles on behavioral finance. He is author of Behavioral Portfolio Management. 

Paul runs Nicusa Investment Advisors has over 35 years stock market and venture capital experience. He has lectured extensively on securities analysis and value investing and  contributed to a wide rage of publications. He is co-author, with Paul Sonkin, of Pitch the Perfect Investment.

Brian has spent the last 25 years as an educator, investor, and strategist. Prior to joining Magnetar Capital as their Head of Education, he held senior research and investing roles at Morningstar, Mesirow Financial and Virtus Investment Partners. Brian’s two books, The Investor’s Paradox and The Geometry of Wealth, explore the challenges not only of behavioral science and making better investment decisions, but how money figures in to a joyful life.

Ted is an experienced investor in managers across asset classes, including working at the Yale Investments Office and co-founding hedge fund of funds Protégé Partners. He is the host of the Capital Allocators podcast, a series of interviews with leading CIOs and asset managers. Barron’s named the show one of the top financial podcasts.

Analyst and portfolio manager at GAMCO Investors and previously 14 years at the helm of The Hummingbird Value Fund. For 16 years, Paul was adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. He is co-author of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond and Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street.

A high-stakes professional poker player and peak performance coach, Chris was once one of the top 20 online players in the world. He is now founder and CEO of the The Forcing Function, a company that gives investors and executives a competitive edge so that they too can excel at the highest limits.

Tom is Portfolio Manager of the Aperture Endeavour Equity Fund. Launched by former AllianceBernstein CEO Peter Kraus in partnership with Generali, Aperture Investors has rethought traditional fee & incentive structures by shifting the focus of investment team compensation to performance-linked fees. Prior to joining Aperture, Tom was a Senior Analyst at Kingdon Capital.

As well as running a range of multi-asset fund of funds for Aberdeen Standard Investments, Joe is author of an influential investment blog focusing on active management process and the application of behavioral science: behaviouralinvestment.com

Chris is Head of Product and Research at Essentia Analytics. Prior to joining Essentia, he was a technology analyst at GAM Investment Management and a hedge fund analyst at GAM Multi Manager in London. Before his career in financial services, Chris was a professional footballer with Newcastle United.