The Empiritrage Team–We Love Quant!
Empiritrage Team
Management Team
Wesley R. Gray, PhD
Executive Managing Member
- Executive Managing Member, Empirical Finance, LLC
- Assistant Professor of Finance, Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business
- United States Marine Corps, Captain, Ground Intelligence Officer
- Published author; featured speaker, author, and lecturer at numerous venues (top-tier universities, museums, radio, and television)
- Ph.D./M.B.A. Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- B.S. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude
David P. Foulke
Managing Member
- Managing Member, Empitirage, LLC
- Senior VP, Pardee Resources Corp.
- Castle Distributors, Inc.
- Senior Associate, Houlihan Lokey
- Associate, G.E. Capital
- Associate, Burnham Financial Group
- M.B.A. Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- A.B. Dartmouth
Carlton H. Kanner
Managing Member
- Managing Member, Empiritrage, LLC
- Management, Pubco Corp
- B.S. Babson College
John (Jack) Vogel
Managing Member
- Managing Member, Empiritrage, LLC
- Instructor (Mathematics Department) Drexel University
- Ph.D. Finance, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University (expected 2014)
- M.S. Mathematics, Drexel University
- B.S. Mathematics, University of Scranton, summa cum laude
Operations Team
Operations Team
Tao Wang
Head of Trading and Execution
- M.S., Finance, Drexel University
- B.A., B.L., Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Advisory Team
Advisory Team
Hui Chen, PhD
Advisory Board
- Finance professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Macro-economics, credit risk, capital structure, and investment decisions.
- Ph.D., M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- M.S., University of Michigan
- B.A., Sun Yat-Sen University
Gil Sadka, PhD
Advisory Board
- Accounting professor, Columbia Business School
- Financial reporting and product market competition, and equity valuation
- Ph.D., M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- B.A., Tel Aviv University
Steve Crawford, PhD
Advisory Board
- Accounting professor, Rice Jones Graduate School of Business
- Financial reporting, statement analysis, empirical accounting research.
- Ph.D., M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- M.S., B.S., Brigham Young University
Richard Price, PhD
Advisory Board
- Accounting professor, Rice Jones Graduate School of Business
- Financial reporting, statement analysis, empirical accounting research.
- Ph.D., M.S., Stanford University
- M.Acc., B.S., Brigham Young University