Socionomics Summit 2012: Speakers

Robert R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, is known for developing a theory of social causality called socionomics, for developing the socionomic theory of finance (STF), and for his long career applying and enhancing R.N. Elliott’s model of financial pricing called the Wave Principle.

Prechter’s socionomic theory accounts for the character of social actions in areas as diverse as financial markets, economic trends, politics, fashion and entertainment and demographics. Under development since the 1970s, the idea first reached a national audience in a 1985 cover article in Barron’s. Prechter has made presentations about socionomic theory at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, MIT, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, Georgia Tech, SUNY and various academic and financial conferences. In 2008 and 2010, the Georgia legislature invited Prechter to testify before its Joint Economic Committee regarding the state’s developing real estate and economic crises.

Prechter attended Yale University on a full scholarship and received a B.A. in psychology in 1971. In 1975, he joined the Market Analysis Department of Merrill Lynch in New York. In 1979, Prechter founded Elliott Wave International and began publishing monthly market analysis under the masthead, The Elliott Wave Theorist. Prechter served as a member of the board of the Market Technicians Association for nine years and as the MTA’s President in 1990-1991. He currently serves on the advisory board of the MT’’s Educational Foundation. In 2005, Prechter created the Socionomics Institute, which is dedicated to explaining socionomics, and he funds the Socionomics Foundation, which supports academic research in the field.

Prechter has authored, edited or contributed to more than 15 books. His book Elliott Wave Principle: Key to Market Behavior has been translated into a dozen languages, and Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression was a New York Times and Amazon bestseller.

Matt Lampert is a graduate of the University of Cambridge where he currently studies as a doctoral candidate in the sociology department. Lampert contributes to the Socionomics Institute’s research program and works to build collaborative relationships with scholars in his capacity as the institute’s research fellow. He is a board member of the Socionomics Foundation and served as the Socionomics Institute’s associate director for two years before enrolling at Cambridge.

Terry Burnham, Ph.D.Terry is a finance professor at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University and a master’s degree in finance from MIT. Prior to Chapman, he was an economics professor at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the Harvard Business School.

From 2005 to 2011, Terry was the Director of Economics for Acadian Asset Management, a quantitative equity manager with peak assets under management of over $90 billion. Terry is the author of Mean Markets and Lizard Brains, and the co-author of Mean Genes. His academic research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of human economic behavior.Terry was the President and Chief Financial Officer of the start-up biotechnology company Progenics Pharmaceuticals, which is now publicly traded (ticker symbol PGNX). He served as a tank driver in the US Marine Corps Reserves.

Kevin Coogan is the Founder and Managing Director of AmalgaMood. He created the firm’s patent-pending algorithm that uses text analytics and quantitative analysis on the live Internet (such as social media, user generated content, and news) to analyze the direction of society’s aggregate social mood as it relates to the global equity market.

Prior to AmalgaMood, Mr. Coogan was a founding partner at BR Investimentos, an alternative asset management firm, a partner at the global hedge fund JGP Asset Management, and a proprietary desk trader and equity analyst at Banco Pactual, an investment bank focused on global emerging markets.Mr. Coogan has spoken widely about using text analytics to improve investment strategy. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond’s E. Claiborne School of Business and holds an International MBA from the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business.

Jordan Kotick is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). He joined Barclays Capital in 2004 and is currently a Managing Director and Head of Technical Strategy. He was formerly at JP Morgan Chase and was also a government rates trader with CIBC World Markets. Jordan was also previously employed at Elliott Wave International where, among other roles, he was EWI’s first Director of Socionomics Research.

Jordan is a past president of the Market Technicians Association (MTA) in New York and was the first person to have been president of both the MTA and the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts (CSTA). He is a CNBC Contributor and also has his own segment “Kotick Tick by Tick,” shown internationally.In 2005 he led the team that convinced the Securities Exchange Commission to amend Rule 344, to recognize the equality of technical and fundamental analysis. He has a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Windsor where he was also a lecturer.

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