Dr. Cotton heads Intech’s data science efforts in collaboration with the investment team and
leads Intech’s crowdsourced research efforts. With 18 years of investment industry experience,
he is the developer of multiple financial modeling patents and a leading authority on
crowdsourcing strategy.
Before joining Intech, Dr. Cotton spent six years at JPMorgan, where he served as executive
director of data science. He created ROAR, an experiment in collective intelligence undertaken
within JPMorgan. Previously, he was the founder of Benchmark Solutions, a company that
pioneered large-scale financial data assimilation and was later sold to Bloomberg. Peter began
his career at Morgan Stanley where he was one of several independent inventors of closed-form
synthetic CDO pricing.
Dr. Cotton earned an undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of
New South Wales and a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University.