Peter Ricchiuti

Tulane University Business School Professor

CNN, CNBC, NYT & Barron’s Contributor

Peter Ricchiuti has taught finance at Tulane University since 1986. His humor and insight have earned him numerous teaching awards at Tulane University where he
created and runs the nationally acclaimed Burkenroad Reports student stock research program.
Peter is a graduate of Babson College and began his career with the investment firm of Kidder Peabody in Boston. He later managed Louisiana’s $3 billion investment portfolio while serving as the assistant state treasurer.

In 1993, Peter created the nationally acclaimed Burkenroad Reports Stock Research Program. Peter has addressed more than 1500 groups in 47 states and several countries. He has been featured in BARRON’S, Kiplinger’s, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He also hosts a popular weekly business show on National Public Radio in New Orleans called “Out To Lunch.”

Peter is a husband, dad and author who has attended baseball games at all 30 current major league ballparks.

Geoff Gerber, Ph.D.—President and CIO

Twin Capital Management

Having founded TWIN in 1990, Geoff is the Chief Investment Officer overseeing the quantitative investment process and general management of the firm.   Recognized as a specialist in institutional quantitative investment management, he is often quoted in the financial press.  Two of his publications appear in Market Neutral: State-of-the-Art Strategies for Every Market Environment as a chapter entitled “Using a Nonparametric Approach to Market Neutral Investing” and in Global Asset Allocation as a chapter entitled “Equity Style Allocations: Timing Between Growth & Value”.  His most recent publication is entitled “Dividend Growth as a Defensive Equity Strategy”, published in the Journal of Investment Consulting.

Outside of TWIN, Geoff is a faculty member for the Aresty Institute’s Wharton Executive Education Program on Pension Funds and Investment Management.  He participates in a number of foundations’ investment committees and boards including the Burroughs Welcome Foundation, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.  Geoff is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Investment Consulting and is a former member of the Investment Advisory Committee for NY State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS).

Prior to founding TWIN, he held senior portfolio management positions at Prudential Insurance and Mellon Equity Associates.  Geoff earned a Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Marc Miller

DRZ Investment Advisors

Marc joined DRZ Investment Advisors in 2012 and serves as a Partner, Board Member and Portfolio Manager of Emerging Market Equities. He has over 25 years of Emerging Market Equity experience, having worked for BNP Paribas Investment Partners and Deutsche Asset Management prior to joining DRZ. He earned a B.A. in Political Science, and an M.A in Economic Development from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.B.A. from Boston College.

Paul Nasser, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer

Intercontinental Real Estate

Paul J. Nasser is responsible for managing the firm’s resources across investment and operating disciplines. As Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Intercontinental, he is a member of the Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Valuation Committee, and oversees Performance Reporting, Investor Relations, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Technology and Administration.

Prior to joining Intercontinental in 2000, Paul Nasser was Senior Vice President and Team Leader in Fleet’s Real Estate Finance Group handling a real estate portfolio of over $1 billion. In this capacity, Mr. Nasser managed construction and acquisition loans, private placements, mezzanine debt, retail real estate, REITs and residential real estate development. Before joining Fleet in 1991, he held various senior management positions in the banking industry.

Active in many civic and charitable organizations, Mr. Nasser is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP); is on the Board of Directors for the Greater Boston Board of Real Estate Finance Association (REFA); and Mr. Nasser serves as the Chairman for St. John’s Preparatory School, Danvers, MA and is on the Board of Trustees for Tufts Medical Center, Boston MA. Mr. Nasser holds memberships with the Treasurer’s Club of Boston, National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM), and the Pension Real Estate Advisory (PREA). Mr. Nasser was the former Chairman of the Advisory Board for St. John the Evangelist School, Beverly, MA; former Chairman and President of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Massachusetts Chapter, former President of the Greater Boston Board of Real Estate Finance Association (REFA); a former member of the National Board of Directors of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) Washington D.C; and former member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Eastern Massachusetts. In 2015, Mr. Nasser was named the CFO of the Year for Midsize Private Companies by the Boston Business Journal. Mr. Nasser is a guest lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, Boston University and Roger Williams University.

Mr. Nasser received his BA in Urban Planning from the University of Rhode Island in 1983 and his MBA from Suffolk University in 1998