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Charlotte Chabot
Founder and Managing Director of Communications |
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Charlotte
is the Founder and Managing
Director of Communications at
Minimax Consulting. It was her
idea (on Pi Day, March 14th)
to start a firm which could
act like a think tank and
provide services to businesses
and other researchers in need
of complex quantitative
modeling, and she has worked
to grow Minimax from that
thought to where we are today.
Born in Paris and raised in
London, Charlotte moved to the
States to study at Brown
University, creating the third
generation of Brown alumni in
her family (her father,
mother, uncle, and maternal
grandfather all also attended
Brown).
She won the Ladies Event at
the Foxwoods World Poker
Finals (WPT) tournament in
2007, placed second at the
Foxwoods Poker Live Tournament
in 2010, and made the front
page in the Providence Journal
for
her successful application of
the connection between
mathematics and poker.
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Martin Barugel
Managing Director of Operations;
Head of Methodology and Experimental Design |
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Martin was promoted to the Managing Director of Operations role at Minimax in 2008, and is retaining his previous role (as Head of Methodology and Experimental Design). He completed his MSc in econometrics from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, and remained there as an assistant professor of economics and statistics. After leaving academia, Martin worked on currency trading models for 2 prominent hedge funds before joining Minimax in 2006. He is a proficient Matlab programmer, and has designed applications that simulate human behavior to examine the outcomes of poker/casino games. He has also worked extensively on survey validation studies requiring the use of Structural Equation Modeling techniques, and contributed to the statistical analysis of data in studies on such diverse fields as education, psychology, leadership, and finance.
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Anthony Santa Barbara
Chief Administrative Officer |
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Anthony is responsible for all legal and financial matters at Minimax and interfaces with representatives from client companies. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelors degree in History and Economics, and received his JD from Columbia University Law School. He has worked in law firms and multinational companies in Brussels, Paris and London, including Citigroup Investment Bank and Lazard. Early in his career, Anthony wrote the textbook Internal Revenue Service Practice and Procedure, published by PLI, along with other lectures and articles on tax and business topics.
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Brian Goodhart
Director of Business Development |
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Brian
is the Director of Business Development at Minimax. He
completed his BA and MBA from Penn State University, and then worked in
various capacities as an independent business consultant in diverse
fields such as agriculture, retail, technology and real estate. Brian
directs the majority of our corporate development, and prior to his
current position was the Director of our Business Valuation and
Corporate Finance divisions. In his spare time, Brian enjoys mentoring
students as an Adjunct Instructor at Wilson College teaching Advanced
Financial Management.
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Clark Guo
Director of Academic Research;
Head of Econometrics |
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Clark joined Minimax as an Associate Quantitative Analyst after receiving his MS in Economics from Boston University. Prior to that, he received his BS from Caltech in both Mathematics and Economics. Clark is a member in good standing of the American Statistical Association. He was first promoted to Assistant Director of Quantitative Research, before taking on his new position as Director of Academic Research and Head of Econometrics. His
main research interests lie in financial modeling, computational efficiency methodology, R-stats programming, and statistical
arbitrage. He is also an avid chess player.
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Stephanie R. Thomas
Director of Equal Employment Advisory
and Litigation Support |
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Stephanie specializes in the application of economic and statistical theory to questions arising in dispute resolution and risk management. Prior to joining Minimax, she was a Principal with LECG, LLC., a global expert services and consulting firm whose clients include Fortune Global 500 corporations, major law firms, and local, state, and federal governments worldwide. She also served as statistical consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Dr. Thomas has lectured frequently on the role of statistics in dispute resolution and risk management. She has also published several papers in professional journals on using statistical analysis of compensation as part of a comprehensive risk management plan. Dr. Thomas holds her BA in economics from Elmira College and her MA and PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research with a concentration in macroeconomic modeling. She received the Center for Economic Policy Analysis Dissertation Fellowship and the Edith and Henry Johnson Memorial Commencement Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the fields of anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology.
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Barron Gati
Assistant Director of Quantitative Analysis;
Assistant Director of Business Development |
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Barron
graduated from George Washington University with a BS in Mathematics in 2002. After graduation, he worked as an Economist for the Department of Labor for two years, where he conducted statistical analyses and authored several papers for the department's Office of Policy and Research. In 2006, Barron received his Masters in Applied Statistics from Washington University's Center for Applied Statistics. He went on to join Minimax as a Statistician concentrating on complex statistical analysis including GEE, GLM, and Fuzzy Set Theory.
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Pattilou Normand
Director of Client Relations;
Assistant Director of Academic Research |
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Pattilou
joined Minimax after working for several Fortune 500 companies as an editor and engagement manager, with fields of study ranging from Classical Greek Literature to International Affairs. She graduated with honors from Mount Holyoke College in marketing and communication and from URI with a graduate degree in Education. Pattilou has taught at URI, Providence College, as well as several courses at Brown University. She's also a competitive poker player, keeping in the tradition of Minimax.
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Lenny Marandino
Assistant Director of Client Relations |
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Lenny
joined Minimax as Client Relations Manager after receiving his BA in Business Economics from Brown University. While also working at Minimax, Lenny consults for start-up entrepreneurial ventures, writes business plans on a contract basis for local firms, and hosts VC meetings to raise funding for businesses run by Brown Alumni. Lenny specializes in social networking, statistics and econometrics, and stock modeling. He was a Division One wrestler for four years, and has wrestled since the age of 3.
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Daniel Teitelbaum
Director of Casino and Gaming Division |
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Daniel
received his PhD in engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1998. He has
published extensively in computational mathematics and organization
theory, and prior to Minimax worked for over a dozen years on the
creation and testing of arbitrage trading models for a large global
hedge fund. Before grad school, Daniel worked for Merck as a market
analyst. He currently oversees all projects involving engineering,
simulation, and/or data mining.
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Logan Heslip
Head of Psychometrics |
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Logan is the Head of Psychometrics at Minimax, and is the primary project manager overseeing all complex methodological issues in our client projects. In addition to running our DOE and Survey Methodology divisions, he is well versed in theoretical issues in moderation/mediation analyses, such as structural equation modeling and WABA. Prior to joining the Minimax team he enjoyed a long career with the Canada Center for Inland Waters, for which he primarily directed the temporal and spatial analyses of pesticide residues in the surface waters of southern Ontario. Logan graduated from the University of Guelph with a M.Sc. degree in statistics.
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Sean Wrona
Head of Biostatistics |
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Sean began his career as a Quantitative Analyst at Minimax, after receiving both his MPS in Applied Statistics and a BA in Economics, both from Cornell University. His main research interests involve SAS programming to model the diversity of species, as well as examining the effect of spending per student on high school graduation rates. Prior to joining Minimax, he served as the senior editor for Cornell's Visible Hand economics journal, and was the statistician for the Mensa Scrabble-by-Mail SIG. He is also the webmaster of one of the largest auto racing statistical websites in the world.
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Daniel Kleinman
Head of Qualitative Research |
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Daniel Kleinman
is the Head of Qualitative Research at Minimax. He graduated Brown
University with a degree in Literatures
and Cultures in English, with a focus on English Theory. Before coming
to work for Minimax, Daniel worked widely in the nonprofit sector as a
policy advocate, publicity expert, consultant, and program director. In
addition, he has worked as an educator in a variety of settings,
teaching English Theory at the graduate level. He worked as a
consultant on over 80 client projects before taking up his current
position with Minimax.
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Louise Hopkins
Head of Education Research |
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Louise Hopkins has been a statistical analyst and editor with Minimax since March 2007. She achieved a masters degree in
mathematical statistics, with honors, from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa (the alma mater of Nelson Mandela).
Louise has taught and lectured to graduate students on statistics and statistical methods, and has done extensive research in
operations management and quality control. Louise has assisted more than 350 doctoral students while at Minimax.
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Eric Port
Head of Information Technology |
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Eric is currently the Head of Information Technology at Minimax. Before coming onboard in 2008, Eric worked for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, including The TJX Companies, GyPSii/Geosolutions, and Robert Half International. His responsibilities include but are not limited to website development, SEO and SEM management, networking and server administration, and technical support. Eric attended RIC for a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics. His hobbies include building computers and playing poker online.
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