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People · Faculty

A small bench of patient educators.

Every faculty member has spent at least seven years inside research desks, asset-management teams, or university programs before joining the Academy.

Senior faculty

Who you will actually study with.

Lectures are not delegated to teaching assistants. Each module below is taught by the faculty member who designed it.

Dean of Curriculum

Dr. Helen R. Marston

Twelve years on a sell-side equity research desk covering U.S. industrials, followed by adjunct teaching at a New York business school. Designed our Equities & Index Research track.

EquitiesSector Analysis
Head of FX Methodology

Daniel A. Whitfield

Former G10 strategist at a mid-sized bank, with a decade of experience writing macro research for institutional clients. Leads the Foreign Exchange track.

FXMacro
Lead Tutor, Quantitative Methods

Priya Vasanth, CFA

Eight years in quantitative research at a long-only asset manager. Holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Teaches statistics, factor modelling, and reproducibility.

StatisticsFactor Models
Faculty Lead, Digital Assets

Marcus J. Okonkwo

Seven years working at the intersection of digital-asset research and U.S. compliance. Designed our protocol-fundamentals and on-chain analytics modules.

Digital AssetsCompliance
Senior Lecturer, Risk Studies

Rachel S. Lindholm

Former enterprise-risk analyst at a regional U.S. bank. Authored the Academy's risk-mitigation casebook used across all three tracks.

RiskStress Testing
Lecturer, Behavioral Finance

Anthony R. Calderón

Trained in cognitive psychology and applied finance. Teaches the behavioral-bias module and supervises learner-journal reviews each cycle.

BehaviorDecision Making
Visiting Lecturer

Dr. Ingrid V. Hanson

Adjunct from a Boston-area university. Three guest seminars per cycle on monetary-policy interpretation and the language of central-bank communication.

Monetary PolicyCommunication
Tutor, Research Lab

Kevin P. O'Hara

Runs the weekly research labs where learners present and defend their written notes. Previously a junior analyst on a small-cap U.S. equity desk.

ResearchWriting
How we hire

Three filters before anyone teaches a class.

01

Practitioner experience

Minimum seven years on a research, asset-management, or risk team.

02

Pedagogical sample

Each candidate teaches a recorded 45-minute lecture before being offered a role.

03

Conflict review

We review and resolve any commercial conflicts before the appointment is finalized.