Peter Cotton
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Crunch Labs
"Dr. Cotton heads Intech Investment's data science efforts in collaboration with the investment team and leads Intech’s crowdsourced research efforts. With 20 years of investment industry experience, he is the developer of multiple financial modeling patents and a leading authority on crowdsourcing strategy.
Before joining Intech, Dr. Cotton spent six years at JPMorgan, where he served as executive director of data science. He created ROAR, an experiment in collective intelligence undertaken within JPMorgan. Previously, he was the founder of Benchmark Solutions, a company that pioneered large-scale financial data assimilation and was later sold to Bloomberg. Peter began his career at Morgan Stanley where he was one of several independent inventors of closed-form synthetic CDO pricing.
Dr. Cotton earned an undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of New South Wales and a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University."
