Arjun Divecha is a member of the board of directors and executive committee at GMO, LLC. He is also responsible for overseeing the team managing the GMO Emerging Markets Fund, the GMO Emerging Countries Fund, and the GMO Emerging Markets Quality Fund.  Previously, Mr. Divecha spent 12 years at BARRA directing software development, marketing, client service, and emerging market research and development. He holds a bachelor of technology degree in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology  and an MBA in finance from Cornell University.

Martin S. Fridson, CFA, is CEO of FridsonVision, LLC. He is the author of the books It Was a Very Good Year, How to Be a Billionaire, and Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case against Government Intervention in the Marketplace. Mr. Fridson has served as president of the Fixed Income Analysts Society and as director of the New York Society of Security Analysts. In 2000, he became the youngest person ever inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame, and in 2002, the Financial Management Association International named him Financial Executive of the Year. Mr. Fridson holds a BA in history from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Charles G. Froland, CFA, is CEO of Performance Equity Management. Previously, he was managing director of Private Market Investments at General Motors Global Fund Management Company and managing director of Internally Managed Funds and Private Equity at Stanford Management Company. Dr. Froland is currently serving on the Boys Town Investment Advisory Board and the board of Institutional Limited Partners Association. He received a BA degree from the University of Washington, an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Robert E. Kiernan III is CEO of Advanced Portfolio Management LLC. Previously, he held management positions at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, where he was a member of multiple investment and operating committees. Mr. Kiernan is a member of the Research Review Board of the Research Foundation of CFA Institute. He holds AB and AM degrees from Boston College as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Lawrence E. Kochard, CFA, is chief investment officer at Georgetown University, where he teaches investment courses for the McDonough School of Business. Previously, he was managing director of Equity and Hedge Fund Investments for the Virginia Retirement System and adjunct professor of finance for the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Dr. Kochard currently serves on the Investment Committee of St. Louis University and as chairman of the College of William & Mary Investments Committee. He is coauthor of Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions. Dr. Kochard holds a BA in economics from the College of William & Mary, an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of Rochester, and an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia. 

Andrew W. Lo is Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering. Previously, he served as the W.P. Carey Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lo is a co-author of the books The Econometrics of Financial Markets and A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street. He has received numerous awards, including a Graham and Dodd Award from the Financial Analysts Journal and the Paul A. Samuelson Award from TIAA-CREF.He is currently a governor of the Boston Stock Exchange, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and founder and chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex Group. Professor Lo holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Ludovic Phalippou teaches investments at both the undergraduate and graduate levels as assistant professor of finance at the University of Amsterdam and is a research fellow at Yale University. His research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Harvard Business Review, and the Review of Finance. He holds master’s degrees in both mathematical finance and economics from the University of Southern California, a BSc in economics from Toulouse University, and a PhD in finance from INSEAD.

Ted Seides, CFA, is the cofounder and director of investments at Protégé Partners, LLC. Previously, he was a senior associate at J.H. Whitney & Company, where he also served as a research analyst for their long–short hedge fund, the Green River Fund. Mr. Seides has written a guest column for Peter L. Bernstein’s Economics and Portfolio Strategy newsletter and a Harvard Business School case study, “Woodland Partners: Field of Dreams?” Mr. Seides holds a BA in economics and political science from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Roger Urwin is the global head of Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting, where he also heads the thought leadership group. Previously, he worked at Hewitt Associates, William Mercer, and Gartmore Investment Management. Mr. Urwin is the author of a number of papers on asset allocation policy and manager selection and serves on the board of the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research and the editorial board of MSCI. He holds a master’s degree from Oxford University and has qualified as a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.