Our Team

Professor Joel Litman is a forensic accountant and chief investment strategist of Altimetry and his institutional arm, Valens Research.

Joel’s uncanny ability to read the market – he famously predicted both the 2008 and 2020 crashes months in advance – has earned him attention from the highest levels of government, business, and academia. He’s lectured at Harvard Business School, Wharton, and at CFA societies around the world. He’s also a regular consultant for the FBI and the Pentagon.

Joel’s institutional business counts all of the 10 biggest money managers in the world as clients, along with hundreds of elite funds and asset managers – professionals who pay as much as $100,000 a month for his insights.

Rob Spivey is the director of research at Altimetry and Valens Research. He leads a team using our proprietary Uniform Accounting framework to deliver equity, credit, and macro research... often leading to market-beating returns you won't find anywhere else.

Rob's rich background spans his time as a hedge-fund analyst to advising some of the largest investment managers in the world. He has appeared on CNBC, and been quoted in Barron’s, Bloomberg, U.S. News & World Report, and Forbes. He has presented at Northeastern University, DePaul University, and HULT International Business School, and been a judge at the CFA Institute Research Challenge.

Rob and his team have rolled up their sleeves to identify bond ideas, analyze bond holdings, and design special portfolios for a number of hedge-fund clients. In 2015, he tapped into a lucrative bond opportunity in the oil sector. The result? An impressive 87% win rate with gains as high as 114% in two months – despite the oil market plummeting more than 50%.

Paolo Gutierrez serves as Chief Information Officer. He has over a decade of experience building web-based products and applications. As part of the management team, he heads a team of software engineers, IT specialists, and information managers responsible for all software development, data management, network infrastructure, and information systems within the organization.

Paolo is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer with more than a decade of experience in designing, developing, implementing, and optimizing software solutions with both proprietary and open source technologies. Paolo holds a Bachelor in Science degree in Business Administration from De La Salle University. He is also an alumni of the Basic Management Program of the Asian Institute of Management.