Joseph Cherian was formerly an Executive-in-Residence at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he remains a two-term member of the Johnson Dean’s Advisory Council. Prior to that, he was Managing Director, Global Head, and CIO of the Quantitative Strategies Group within Credit Suisse Alternative Investments in New York, where he had direct responsibility for over US$67 billion in client assets managed to a quantitative discipline. While at Credit Suisse, he also served on the Global Executive Committee, as well as various senior management, investments, and risk committees of the Asset Management division. He joined Credit Suisse in 2004 from Bank of America Capital Management, also in New York, where he was Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of their asset allocation funds. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and Master of Science and PhD degrees in Finance from Cornell University.