Peter Cotton

Dr. Cotton heads Intech Investment's data science efforts in collaboration with the investment team and

leads Intech’s crowdsourced research efforts. With 20 years of investment industry experience,

he is the developer of multiple financial modeling patents and a leading authority on

crowdsourcing strategy.

Before joining Intech, Dr. Cotton spent six years at JPMorgan, where he served as executive

director of data science. He created ROAR, an experiment in collective intelligence undertaken

within JPMorgan. Previously, he was the founder of Benchmark Solutions, a company that

pioneered large-scale financial data assimilation and was later sold to Bloomberg. Peter began

his career at Morgan Stanley where he was one of several independent inventors of closed-form

synthetic CDO pricing.

Dr. Cotton earned an undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of

New South Wales and a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University.