Michael Green
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Unintended Consequences of Passive Investing
Michael has been a student of markets and market structure, for nearly 30 years. His proprietary research into the shift from actively managed portfolios and investment funds to systematic passive investment strategies has been presented to the Federal Reserve, the BIS, the IMF and numerous other industry groups and associations.
Michael joined Simplify in April 2021 after serving as Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Logica Capital Advisers, LLC. Prior to Logica, Michael managed macro strategies at Thiel Macro, LLC, an investment firm that manages the personal capital of Peter Thiel. Prior to Thiel, Michael founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management. From 2006-2014, Michael founded and managed the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a $23B multi-strategy hedge fund based in Los Angeles, CA, where he established their global macro strategies, managing in excess of $5B of exposure across equity, credit, FX, commodity and derivative markets.
In addition to his work as a market theorist and portfolio manager, Michael has been noted for his work as a public speaker and financial media participant. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a CFA holder.
Christopher Mayer
The Investor’s Odyssey: Resisting the Sirens and Playing the Long Game
Christopher W. Mayer is the Portfolio Manager and co-Founder of Woodlock House Family Capital, a long-only hedge fund based in Mount Airy, Maryland. He is the author of several books, including 100 Baggers: Stocks that return 100 to 1 and how to find them and How Do You Know? A Guide To Clear Thinking, Investing and Life. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute of General Semantics.
Paul Johnson
The Value of Growth: Introducing Visual Analytics to Investing
Paul is the CEO of Partners Media. In his role, Paul leads the runs the business side of the publishing company. Paul is a member of the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and has been an integral part of the Columbia Business School Value Investing Program for over 30 years.
Paul hosts a webinar series on YouTube called The Value of Growth. Paul is co-author with Paul Sonkin of Pitch the Perfect Investment, The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street, published in September 2017, and is a co-author with Paul Sonkin of The Enduring Value of Roger Murray, which was published in November 2022. Paul was a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing, Illuminated, by Howard Marks (a book Warren Buffett considers to be one of the three most important investment books published); co-author of the history of value investing in Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas, a book celebrating the school’s 100-year anniversary; and, co-author of The Gorilla Game, Picking Winners in High Technology, which reached Business Week’s best seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon.com for several weeks in 1998.
Paul has an MBA in Finance from the Executive Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from the
University of California, Berkeley.