Mark L. Frigo

Mark L. Frigo is Director of The Center for Strategy, Execution, and Valuation in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and Ledger & Quill Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Leadership. Author of six books and over 70 articles, his work is published in leading journals including Harvard Business Review. Dr. Frigo is a frequent contributor and an editor for Strategic Finance and lectures at universities and conferences throughout North America and Europe. He is a leading expert on strategy and execution in high-performance companies and strategic risk management.

His professional career has included corporate strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and management consulting in strategic services at an international consulting firm. Dr. Frigo is recipient of the Economos Award for outstanding teaching in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business MBA program, awards by professional organizations for his executive education programs and he was recently profiled in Crain's Chicago Business in an article about top Business School professors.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, an MBA degree from Northern Illinois University and completed postgraduate studies in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a CPA in the State of Illinois and a Certified Management Accountant. Dr. Frigo received his Ph.D. in Econometrics. He serves as an advisor to senior executive teams and boards of directors.

Joel Litman

Joel Litman is a Managing Director at Equity Analysis & Strategy, Inc. based in New York. His team is focused on identifying significant stock market mispricings where the underlying value of the business greatly differs from the embedded expectations in the stock price… providing the potential for highest investment returns.

Litman’s career spans the interrelationship between business strategy, performance, and valuation. Methodologies employed include RETURN DRIVEN STRATEGY™, Strategic Valuation™, and the HOLT CFROI© methodology. His career has spanned investment management, investment banking, and management consulting, formerly at employers Credit Suisse First Boston, Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Deloitte Consulting, and American Express.

With Dr. Mark Frigo, Litman co-authored the book, DRIVEN: Business Strategy, Human Actions, and the Creation of Wealth (www.returndriven.com), and has been published articles or served as editor in journals/magazines including Harvard Business Review, Strategic Finance, Insight, and others.

Litman is a member of the CFA Institute’s Retained Speakers Bureau and teaches regularly at universities in cities including Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, London, and all over North America. Universities have included Harvard Business School, Wharton, London Business School, and others. He is on staff as Professor with the HULT International Business School based in Cambridge and also The Center for Strategy, Execution, and Valuation which he co-founded at the Kellstadt MBA Program in Chicago.

Through the Foundation for Socioeconomic Advancement and Children International, Litman is heavily involved in the support of under-developed communities and education, particularly in the Philippines.