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Biography
David M. Gross, PhD, MBA, is Teaching Professor of Finance at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø.
Prof. Gross was born and raised in New York City. He received his BA in Economics from New York University. After a stint as a derivatives trader in New York, he received his MBA with a concentration in Finance from Fordham University. In 2002, he received his PhD in Financial Economics from the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. His research work was in market structure, information asymmetry and price formation. His work examined the ability of market procedures to assimilate exogenous information shocks.
Prof. Gross started teaching finance part-time at the Leeds School of Business in 1996 and has been teaching at the Leeds School full-time since 2002. He teaches in both the undergraduate and masters’ programs at Leeds.
Prof. Gross is the former President and Treasurer of the Dairy Arts Center. He is a former partner at Social Venture Partners of Â鶹¹ÙÍø County through which he provided financial consulting and seminars in financial management to Â鶹¹ÙÍø County non-profits. He is a former member of the Foothills United Way Investment Advisory Committee and is the past Treasurer of a Â鶹¹ÙÍø-based non-profit medical clinic. He provides financial consulting to the City of Â鶹¹ÙÍø and consults in the areas of portfolio risk and business risk.
Teaching Interests
Introductory and advanced corporate finance, fixed income securities and markets, derivatives securities and markets, portfolio and investment risk analysis, quantitative methods
Education
- PhD, Finance, University of Colorado
- MBA, Fordham University
- BA, Economics, New York University