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Amit Seru is the Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He was formerly a faculty member at the University of Chicago鈥檚 Booth School of Business.

Professor Seru鈥檚 primary research interest is in corporate finance. He is interested in issues related to financial intermediation and regulation, interaction of internal organization of firms with financing and investment, and incentive provision in firms. His papers in these areas have been published in several journals, including, the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Finance and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He was previously Editor of Review of Corporate Finance Studies and a Department Editor (Finance) of Management Science. His research has been featured in major media, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Economist.

Seru earned a B.E. in electronics and communication and an MBA from the University of Delhi. Subsequently, he received a PhD in finance from the University of Michigan before. He was a senior consultant at Accenture before pursuing his Ph.D. Seru was the recipient of a Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at University of Michigan and received a Lt. Governor鈥檚 gold medal for overall academic excellence at the University of Delhi.

K.C. Ma received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. Currently, he is the Mary Ball Washington/Switzer Bros. Endowed Professor of Finance at the University of West Florida. Dr. Ma is a Charted Financial Analyst, he is the Editor of International Journal of Business, the President of KCM Asset Management, KCM Capital, and KCM Analytics.

Dr. Ma specializes in equity valuations, quantitative modeling, and most recently, social value investing. He has published more than 80 refereed articles and was ranked the top 50 finance authors. Dr. Ma is also a money manager and has worked at Investment Research Company Chicago, Ned Davis Research, and George Weiss Associates between 1990 and 2001. His investment company, KCM Asset Management, has been the managers for many top ranked hedge funds.

For the last 15 years, under his capacity, the student-managed portfolios were able to secure 15 Champions and 4 Second-Place Awards for actual stock & bond portfolio performances in the national R.I.S.E Competitions. Dr. Ma has received awards in: Award of Alumni Graduate Fellowship of College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, 1989, The Best Paper Award in the Futures and Options Category, with Richard Peterson and Wenchi Kao, 1990, Financial Management Association, A project on high-yield bond market is sponsored by Salomon Brothers, The Rushing Distinguished Faculty Research Award Nominee, College of Business Administration, 1990, 2008 SOBA Service Award, Stetson University, among many others.