Sam Masucci Sam leads strategy implementation, company operations, product planning and compliance. More than 20 years investment banking, structured products, management, sales and trading experience from senior positions at Bear Stearns, UBS, SBC Warburg, and Merrill Lynch. Sam is a pioneer in developing markets for shared appreciation mortgages (SAMs); led a group to develop, securitize and trade SAMs in Europe and the U.S. Founded Cobblestone Consulting to bridge the gap between mortgage trade desks and small to medium-sized lenders; developed pricing, insurance and exit strategies for more than $1Bln of residential mortgages. Robert Shiller Co-founded Case-Shiller® Weiss, Inc. (now Fiserv CSW, Inc.), a home price research company. Is currently the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and International Center for Finance, Yale University. Since 1982, Shiller has been Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and is co-director of its workshops in behavioral economics. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an honorary doctorate and honorary professorships. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shiller is also a Vice President of the American Economic Association. He has published several books, including Irrational Exuberance, a NY Times Bestseller and the 1996 Paul A. Samuelson Award winning Macro Markets. Allan Weiss As well as being a founder of MacroMarkets; Allan is also co-inventor of MACRO® Securities. As a student at Yale University, had the idea of teaming up with his Professor, Robert Shiller, and with Shiller’s academic colleague Karl E. Case Jr., to found a company that would produce the Case Shiller home price indexes at the county and zip-code level for the United States, and produce other innovative information products for real estate. The three of them founded Case Shiller Weiss, Inc., in 1991.Weiss led CSW on a path breaking sequence of innovations that made the company the US leader in single-family home price indexes and automatic valuation models. He served as CEO and Chairman from CSW’s very beginnings in 1991 until 2002, when the company was sold to Fiserv, Inc. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Physics from Brandeis University and MBA in Public and Private Management from Yale University.

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