SPEAKER
David Brown
David Brown is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. David’s research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Finance and was recognized with the 2018 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. His research has also been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Consumer Reports, Money Digest, and ValueWalk.
David teaches financial modeling at the graduate and undergraduate levels, was a finalist in the 2016 ModelOff Financial Modeling World Championships, and has been featured multiple times in Excel Esports on ESPN2. He is the founder of the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge and the Financial Modeling University Championships.
Real-world business problems are often messy and too complicated to be solved with simple equations. Modern computing power and Excel give us the ability to solve these problems in creative ways. We will first explore how to use backward recursion to solve many seemingly impossible problems.
We will then look to leverage Monte Carlo methods to simulate uncertain outcomes and estimate solutions to complex problems. Finally, we will see how data tables and VBA can be combined to run simulations with multiple layers of uncertainty (i.e., randomness).
OTHER SPEAKERS
Acquisition, capital raise, project finance and corporate lending professional. Has MSc in civil engineering & construction, and project & structured finance.
An independent mining engineer and a university lecturer in Mining Engineering.
Practice Lead for Governance, Adoption and Change Management, SoftwareOne North America
Founder of The Golden Company. FMWC 2022 and 2023 Champion. Ex Wall Street quant.
Previously worked as actuary in PwC and Taylor Fry. Five times ModelOff finalist and one time bronze medalist. Two time MEWC finalist.
Worked at Operis for 2 years together with Michael Jarman. Active FMWC and MEWC participant. Part of the case design team. Currently pursuing an MSc. in Mathematics and Statistics.
Contractor with an impressive 23-year track record in the actuarial departments of leading insurance providers in Europe and the UK.
Road to Las Vegas and MEWC cases' author, Consultant at Oliver Wyman
Award-winning author in analytics, data science, and data visualization. 11-time Microsoft MVP Award winner
Founder & CEO of Financial Modeling World Cup. Financial Modeling World Championship 2-time finalist
25-time Excel MVP Award winner, author of 5 Excel books, Excel user since version 0.99
Executive Director at Financial Modeling Institute. Chartered Financial Modeler
Founder of The FP&A Guy. Providing world-class content and training for FP&A and Finance Professionals
Founder of Vertex42.com. Spreadsheet template developer since 2003
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