Wesley R. Gray, PhD is an assistant professor of finance at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, where his research focus is on empirical asset pricing and behavioral finance. Professor Gray teaches graduate-level investment management and a seminar on hedge fund strategies and operations. Professor Gray is also the executive managing member of Empiritrage, LLC, an SEC-Registered Investment Advisor, and Turnkey Analyst, LLC, a firm dedicated to educating and sharing quantitative investment techniques to the general public. Professor Gray’s professional and leadership experiences include service as a U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer (Captain) in Iraq and various posts in Asia. Dr. Gray has also published 2 books: Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army and Quantitative Value: Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors. Dr. Gray earned an MBA and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and graduated magna cum laude with a BS in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Wes Gray is co-author with Tobias Carlisle of Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors. This book is one of the best on value investing we have read in years. It is a must read for anyone interested in finding out which quantitative investment methods work best in value investing.
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