Faculty/Staff Directory

First Name
Joerg

Last Name
Picard

Email
[email protected]

Title
Associate Professor

Office
SCB 3151

Phone
(616) 331-7404

Department
Finance

Expertise
• Venture Capital & Private Equity • High-Frequency Trading

Biography
Joerg Picard earned his Ph.D. in finance at Michigan State University in 2015. He teaches introductory and intermediate corporate finance and received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Michigan State University's finance department in 2012/2013. His main research interest is in market microstructure, more specifically computer algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Joerg Picard is also an active angel investor and has helped funding around a dozen start-up companies around West-Michigan through a local angel group.

Education
Ph.D., Finance, Michigan State University (2015) MBA, University of California, Irvine (1999) Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.E.), RWTH Aachen, Germany, (1995)

Teaching Areas
Corporate Finance Venture Capital & Private Equity

Service
Foundations Endowments Family Offices (FEFO) committee member 2015-Present Member of Grand Angels investment group 2009-Present

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