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Scott D. Stewart has been an investment practitioner and educator for more than 30 years. He currently is Clinical Professor of Finance and Accounting and Faculty Co-Director of the Parker Center for Investment Research at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University. He conducts academic research in finance and education, and remains active in investment management. His papers have been published in the Financial Analysts Journal, Financial Review, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Financial Education and The Accounting Review. He is coauthor of Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice (Wiley, 2019) and author of Manager Selection (CFA Research Foundation, 2013).

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Stewart was a portfolio manager of global long and long-short equity, fixed-income, and asset allocation strategies. His investment career included 14 years at Fidelity Investments, where he was founder and equity group leader of the $45 billion Structured Investments Group and senior adviser to Equity Research.

Between 2002 and 2012, he was a research associate professor at Boston University’s School of Management and the faculty director of the school’s graduate program in investment management. Dr. Stewart was a portfolio manager at State Street Bank Asset Management Division (now State Street Global Advisors) immediately following the completion of his PhD in Finance at Cornell.

Ari Juels is a professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, a Computer Science faculty member at Cornell University, and Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3). He was previously Chief Scientist at RSA, now a division of Dell.

His recent areas of interest include blockchains, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts, as well as applied cryptography, cloud security, user authentication, and privacy. He has published over one hundred highly cited research papers, including many on digital currency, cryptocurrency, and blockchains.

Prof. Juels received a BA in Latin Literature and Mathematics from Amherst College (1991) and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (1996).

David Taylor, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Business Management/Marketing Communications at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. His research focuses on consumer behavior and the marketing-leadership interface across cultures and has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Marketing and the Cornell Quarterly. He is a graduate of the Cornell Hotel School.

As a visiting professor, Dr. Taylor taught business management at Cornell University’s School of Continuing Education/Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management from 2000 to 2019 during the summer session. From 2015 to 2019, he also held a dual appointment as Director of Graduate Programs for the Hotel School and then Director of External Relations for the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business based at Cornell Tech in New York City.

Prior to becoming a professor, Taylor spent 15 years in industry working in or on over 25 markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. While working for Hyatt International in Japan as the Director of Business Development/International Marketing, he and his marketing team were recipients of the Gold Key award as well as recognized by the prestigious Nikkei Business Weekly and the City of Osaka for success and creativity in advertising. He has also provided advisory and management search services to multinational companies operating in Japan.

Pedro Pérez is Senior Lecturer of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business. He has taught large-format introductory courses to business management and entrepreneurship at Cornell since 2001. Dr. Pérez has degrees in chemical and industrial engineering, as well as an MBA and a Ph.D. in management.