Jeff Baum
Jeff is the Managing Director of PROXI Management Decisions and a member of the Business Analytics faculty at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business. He has over 25 years of technology development and management consulting experience within the semiconductor, imaging & printing, telecom, medical devices, oil & gas, and enterprise software industries. Prior to founding PROXI in 2002, Jeff was a management consultant with PRTM (acquired by PwC) in their Tokyo, Japan and Mountain View, California offices. Earlier in his career, he spent 11 years developing new products with Motorola Semiconductor in Phoenix, Arizona. Jeff earned his MBA at the University of California Berkeley – Haas School of Business, his MS Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona, and his BS Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Jerry Millendorf, CFA
Jerry has over 15 years of experience developing quantitative models for analyzing investment strategies and optimizing portfolios within the financial services industry. He has deep expertise in portfolio theory and quantitative methods, and his prior experience includes investment analysis and software development at Salomon Brothers in both New York and Tokyo, quantitative modeling and portfolio optimization at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, and portfolio management and investment research at a San Francisco-based hedge fund. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Jerry is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
James Coughlin
James has more than 35 years of information technology experience, as a software architect designing and implementing business solutions. From database modeling to systems architecture to data integration/automation, Jim drives our passion for developing the most robust and reliable analysis and planning solutions with our clients. Since our systems development work extends beyond the development center to the client environment, Jim leads our software engineering efforts both internally, as well as at client sites. Prior to PROXI, Jim had engineered numerous financial and process-based enterprise systems for Visa International, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Levi Strauss & Co., British Telecom and MCI WorldCom. Earlier in his career, he worked for computer industry pioneers, Amdahl and Tandem Computer. Jim has an Associate of Arts degree in Information Technology.
