Board of Visitors Mark Spindel Founder and Chief Investment Officer Potomac River Capital LLC In 2007, Mr. Spindel launched Potomac River Capital LLC, a Washington-based, registered investment adviser. His firm specialized in managing global macro hedge funds with a specific focus on the intersection of macro-economics, central bank policy and capital markets. The firm’s assets […]
Board of Visitors David Moradi Founder and CEO, Sero Capital David Moradi is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor to numerous market-leading technology companies. He is Founder and CEO of Sero Capital, LLC, a private investment firm that focuses on growth opportunities in the technology sector. David is also Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of First Contact […]
Board of Visitors Jim Ardell Vice President, Corporate Real Estate and Chief Procurement Officer Jim oversees the purchasing activities for over $4 billion in annual spend for such diverse categories as IT services, hardware and software, telecom, business process outsourcing, print, marketing, advertising and media, freight, facilities, capital expenditures, legal, temporary labor, recruitment, and consulting. […]
Board of Visitors Peter M. Moglia Co-Chief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Investment Officer Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Peter M. Moglia is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. He has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer since April 2018 and Chief Investment Officer since January 2009. A 21-year Alexandria […]
Board of Visitors Ronald D. Mass Managing Partner Almitas Capital LLC Ronald Mass, is the founder of Almitas Capital. He was a senior portfolio manager for over 20 years at Western Asset Management, an institutional fixed income manager with over $450 billion in assets under management, and led the Asset Backed Securities (ABS) and Mortgage […]
Board of Visitors Melisa L. Wilson Managing Director Leasing & Asset Finance Melisa Wilson is a Managing Director of the Leasing & Asset Finance Group (L&AF) of MUFG Union Bank, N.A. The group provides financing to the Fortune 1000 companies, the renewable power industry, U.S. subsidiaries of Asian companies, and MUFG’s client base. L&AF’s […]
Denis Chetverikov has been named as a 2019 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Denis Chetverikov is a theoretical econometrician with broad interests. His worked has greatly enhanced our understanding of high dimensional and nonparametric models – an area often referred to as “big data”. Among his most important contributions are the high dimensional […]
Nearly half of millennials say they prefer socialism to capitalism, but what do they mean? “My policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told “60 Minutes.” Yet Sweden’s experiment with socialist policies was disastrous, and its economic success in recent decades is a […]
Each year Quartz, a digital publication that’s part of Atlantic Media, publishes a list on Economics Research That Shaped Our World. This year include Professor Rodrigo Pinto’s paper on “Noncompliance as a Rational Choice”. This paper finds that growing up in an affluent neighborhood leads to better economic outcomes as an adult. Nobel prize winner Jim Heckman writes: “Randomized control […]
How do societies learn about the quality of innovations? How does the structure of social interactions affect their diffusion? These questions are critically important to modern economics, and to social science more broadly. They are relevant for the diffusion of new innovations, production techniques, and new business models. For example, consider how consumers learn about […]
