Joseph L. Breeden, Ph.D.
CEO Dr. Breeden leads the design of advanced analytic solutions that comprise Strategic Analytics’ market offerings. In addition, Dr. Breeden has recently published his book, Reinventing Retail Lending Analytics.
Before co-founding Strategic Analytics, Dr. Breeden was a Senior Scientist in the Investment Analytics Group at CASA, the Center for Adaptive Systems Applications, in Los Alamos, NM. While at CASA, Dr. Breeden used advanced modeling and simulation technologies to solve business problems for several top corporations. Among these, he created a consumer lending portfolio management tool for emerging markets for Citicorp, a merger and acquisition simulator in telecommunications for a top strategic consulting firm, and a product features optimizer for a leading agrichemical and biotech company.
Dr. Breeden previously co-founded the Prediction Company in 1992, where he employed advanced analytical methods to find pockets of predictability within the financial markets. Subsequently, he performed independent consulting work for clients involved in commodities trading, business forecasting, and sports handicapping. He was a member of the Santa Fe Institute for several years conducting research in the areas of chaos theory, complexity, and agent-based simulation.
Dr. Breeden received two BS degrees in mathematics and physics in 1987 from Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1991 from the University of Illinois. His thesis work involved real-world applications of chaos theory, genetic algorithms, agent-based simulation, and complexity. In the mid-90s, he was a member of the Santa Fe Institute. Since 1987, Dr. Breeden has published more than 40 articles in various journals on subjects including portfolio forecasting, evolutionary computation, nonlinear modeling, astrophysics, and nuclear physics. He is currently on the editorial board of The Journal of Risk Model Validation. | 
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