Nick Gogerty, MBA

Nick Gogerty, MBA is Associate at Fertilemind Capital where he focuses on technology and clean energy in New York.
 
He was formerly chief analyst at Starlab NV/SA which was a multidisciplinary, blue sky research institute established to serve as an incubator for long-term and basic research in the spirit of Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, Interval Research and MIT Media Lab. The laboratory’s open and cross-disciplinary culture has been oft-cited as an innovative effort to foster creativity between researchers, intended as an original, if ambitious, dream to create a utopian environment for the pursuit of forward-thinking scientific research.
 
Nick has also developed commodity hedge fund portfolios, worked as a quantitative developer and trader on a proprietary foreign exchange desk in London, and been a serial entrepreneur in convergence spaces between technology and media. He has testified before the U.S. Senate on technology and counterparty financial risk with regard to the year 2000 transition.
 
His accomplishments include:

• Led 3 offshore development teams on 3 continents
• Closed various biz dev deals internationally
• Filed 7 patent apps: viral marketing, file sharing
• Secured partnerships w/ podcaster, music, movie, and video sites
• Created viral marketing distribution methods
• Finalist 2 California VC competitions
• Design products & services for ease of use
• Developed FMCG brand for 8 MENA countries
• Negotiated deals w/ European partners, including content from MTV, EMI, BMG…
• Evaluated 40 early stage scientific projects for commercial potential
• Headed IP team w/ over 100 patent submissions
• Managed 70 scientific researchers
• Managed DNA sample gathering project
• Presented investments to European VCs
• Drafted $90m Memorandum for UK AIM listing
• Self made expert on World’s largest software issue Y2K: $200–300 billion
• Sold info to fortune 1000 & governments
• Delivered live testimony to U.S. Senate w/ CIA, DoD, State Department, & World Bank
• Created 4 quant hedge funds using Debt, Equities, and Forex

He authored CDS chain netting risk, Einhorn’s hedge fund highlights the symptoms…, Asset allocation (Fortune’s Formula) book review & tool, Central bankers on vacation, inflation gone mild, Derivatives: for good and evil, T-bill vs S&P 500 earning yield 1936–2007, Alternative investment: Farmland up 16% in 2007, Wind energy demand, State mandates, and global potential, Solar Investors, Understand Silicon Supply, Get a T-Bill At 5.76% – From Norway, The Rice Bowl Cracks, Flaming VaR (value at risk), and SEC creates the Ministry of Truth. Read the full list of his publications!
 
Nick earned his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Iowa in 1993 and his M.B.A. in Hedge Fund Optimization at ENPC MBA Paris – ENPC School of International Management in 1997. The ENPC in Paris is recognized by the Economist as one of the top 40 MBA programs in Europe and one of the top 100 in the world.
 
Read his blog Designing Better Futures.