Gregory R. Shore, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO, Crystal Shore Dashboards.
Founder & CEO, Crystal Shore Analytics & Crystal Shore Wealth Management SARL
Founder & CEO, ING Private Capital Management, 5 billion EUR of AUM.

Chief Investment Officer, ING Global Private Banking, 80 billion EUR of AUM.
Head of Portfolio Management, International Advisory Group, Merrill Lynch N.V., 500 million USD of AUM.
Management Consultant, Development Bank of Southern Africa.
Professor of Political Theory, Ethics and Metaphysics, University of the Witwatersrand.

University of Chicago, Master's and Ph.D. in Philosophy.
Doctoral Dissertation: interactive decision-making in situations of risk and uncertainty; resource allocation and deployment; payoff-maximization in constant-sum and variable-sum games.
Wits Business School, Certificate in Accounting, Control and Finance.
Vassar College, B.A. in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, General Honors, Department Honors.
   
Backgammon, World Championships, Monte-Carlo:
World Team Champion, 1989.
Semi-Finalist, Second Consolation, 1989.
Finalist, First Consolation, 1992 
Finalist, First Consolation, 1996.


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​                                                                        David Placci, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO, GNIEP, software development and data integration (VBA, SQL, SAP, AMPL).
Financial System Analyst, Oil Trading, Lukoil.
Data Analyst and Risk Officer, Sahara Energy.
Data Analyst, Japan Tobacco International.
Business Planning Analyst, Orange S.A.
Software Developer, Coty.

Professor, Haute Ecole Valaisanne d'Informatique de Gestion.
Lecturer, University of Lausanne.
Post-Doc Research Associate, University of Geneva.

HEC, University of Lausanne, Ph.D. in Operations Research. Doctoral Dissertation: route optimization algorithms, Tabu search metaheuristics and Monte Carlo simulations.
HEC, University of Lausanne, Master's in Economics with distinction in Business Administration.
INFORGE, University of Lausanne, Master's in Business and Information Systems (MBI).



                                                                      Jean-Philippe Barras

Research Analyst, multi-strategy long-short hedge fund, Tell Capital Management Ltd., London, United Kingdom
Research Analyst, industrial and technology sectors, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise.
Fund Manager, institutional equity funds (Europe and US), Banque Cantonale Vaudoise.

Founder & CEO, Oureka, geolocalisation systems for interior spaces.
Founder & CEO, Match My Bike, smartphone-based bicycle-sharing platform backed by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS).
Consultant, MathWorks, software development for engineering and finance.
Software Developer: C, Embedded C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, HTML, PHP, Matlab, Wealth Lab.

HEC, University of Lausanne, Master's in Finance.
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), CFA Institute.
Chartered Market Technician (CMT), Market Technician Association.
Investment Management Certificate, FSA (UK) and UK Society for Investment Professionals.

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