DR. STEPHEN LEEB- WORLD RENOWNED ECONOMIST, NY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR
Stephen Leeb, Ph.D.Chief Investment OfficerInvestment Committee ChairmanDr. Stephen Leeb is a recognized authority on the stock market, macroeconomic trends and commodities, especially oil and precious metals. As Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Leeb Capital Management, Dr. Leeb combines his knowledge of macro-economic trends and current market conditions with detailed information about specific companies he follows in order to guide the Committee's investment decisions. These decisions are then implemented within the portfolios under the Firm's management. Dr. Leeb also writes for several financial newsletters and e-letters. The publications, which have received multiple awards for editorial excellence, include The Complete Investor, Real World Investing, and Aggressive Trader. Dr. Leeb sits on various boards sharing his strategic perspectives on financial markets and natural resources. Since 2008, Dr. Leeb has been a Director of Plain Sight Systems, a technology holding company centered at Yale University. Plain Sight owns a world-class patent portfolio in areas such as information organization/search, computational analytics, electro-optics, and spectroscopy. These technologies are critical in translating massive amounts of data into information and have applications across a multitude of major industries ranging from health care to cyber security to defense to financial analysis. Since 2006, Dr. Leeb has been head of the advisory board of Leor Exploration & Production LLC, a Houston-based oil and gas exploration company whose Texas operations were sold in November 2007 to Encana for $2.55 billion. Since 2007, he has been a member of the advisory board of Electrum USA Ltd., one of the world’s largest privately held gold exploration companies. He is also on the advisory board of Sunshine Silver Mine Corp., a privately held silver exploration company. Dr. Leeb is a prolific author of books that present his macro-perspectives on global economic trends along with advice to investors. His books have been notable for predicting the secular bull market that began in the 1980s (Getting in on the Ground Floor, Putnam, 1986); the crash in tech stocks and the rise of real assets including oil and gold (Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom, McGraw-Hill, 1999); and the surge in oil prices (The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis, Warner Books, 2004). Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (Business Plus, 2009) predicted a permanent peak in global commodity production. Dr. Leeb’s eighth and latest book, Red Alert (Hachette, 2011) outlines how China’s growing prosperity and its demands on increasingly scarce resources threaten the American way of life. Dr. Leeb is a frequent guest on national television and radio financial shows, including those broadcast on CNN, Bloomberg, Fox News, and NPR, and has spoken at numerous investment conferences. In 2010 he gave the keynote address at an energy conference sponsored by J.P. Morgan. As an expert on energy, materials, and their interrelationships, Dr. Leeb consulted for the Congressional Research Service in Spring 2011. Dr. Leeb earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. In the following three years he obtained both a Master's degree in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois.Visit his website for more information on how you can get in touch with Dr. Stephen Leeb at Leeb Capital Management. http://www.leeb.net/content/dr-stephen-leeb