Email: mdirks@ggu.edu

Marty Dirks has more than twenty years of experience as an institutional investor, including five years as the technology stock analyst/portfolio manager for Harvard University’s endowment. There, he was the sole manager for Harvard’s long/short technology portfolio, which generated an average unleveraged annual return on investment of 43% per year, increasing the portfolio from $110 million to $870 million. In addition, he worked as an analyst at Odyssey Partners, a large multi-strategy hedge fund, and Feshbach Brothers, a large short-only hedge fund.

As an investment consultant at Milliman, an international consulting firm with over 3,000 employees worldwide, Mr. Dirks advised pension plans, endowments and foundations on asset allocation and manager selection and monitored clients’ investment manager performance. He also provided expert witness services to Milliman clients.

Mr. Dirks was a Board Member of the City of San Jose Retirement System for eight years. He is currently a member of the Investment Committee for the San Francisco Zen Center’s endowment and retirement funds. He also advises early-stage businesses, including DE Capital Partners, HedgeSight, Inferess, and Oakpeak Equity Partners.

Mr. Dirks has been an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Golden Gate University in San Francisco since 2006 and testifies as an expert witness in complex financial litigation. Mr. Dirks’ publications include the business school cases “Selling Short: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters” and “Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and SunPower Corporation.” His areas of special interest include hedge funds, equity option strategies, and institutional portfolio management.

Mr. Dirks holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Physics from Bemidji State University.