Sabrient Research Team is Headed by Former NASA Scientist David Brown

David Brown
Chief Market Strategist and Director

Sabrient's research team is headed by Chief Market Strategist David Brown, former NASA scientist and retired CEO of Telescan, Inc.

A lifelong investor, David designed and developed the critically acclaimed stock search program, ProSearch, and the market timing indicator, the Brown Breakout Ratio (BBR). He was named Stock Traders Almanac's Man of the Year for 1988 for "[showing] the average investor how to spot the stocks that the hottest money managers are buying." He has edited several market letters, including the Undervalued Growth Report, a real-money portfolio which he published for 10 years with a record of nearly 20% compounded annual returns and no loss years.

He has documented his investing expertise in four books on investing, including All About Stock Market Strategies (McGraw-Hill, June 2002) and Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with your Personal Computer (John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 1997). The latter was named Book of the Year in 1997 by PBS's Inside Money. He has taught finance and security analysis courses at the University of Houston.

A former CEO of two public companies, David has served on the boards of several banks and organizations, including the Advisory Board of the Southwest Council of Public CEOs. In 1985 he served as Chairman of the U.S. Science and Technology Commission.

He holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Author's Guild.

The Team
At Sabrient, David leads a team of talented research scientists and analysts who work continually to improve and expand Sabrient's quantitative methodology.

Joshua R. Anderson, Ph.D.
Director of Research & Development

Josh is a financial model developer and Sabrient's computational-systems architect. His research interests include developing models of investor behavior at individual and institutional levels, and applying these in studies that help form market outcome expectations.

Josh developed prepayment and corporate-bond risk models for BlackRock Financial Management prior to joining Sabrient. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Theodore Spradlin
Chief Quantitative Analyst

Ted is the lead analyst and production engineer behind Sabrient's SmartRank scorecards and SmartStock reports. He had extensive experience in stock screening models and equity analysis from both a technical and fundamental perspective. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology from Southwest Texas State University.

Paul Alvim
Chief Equity Analyst

Paul is responsible for Sabrient's filter backtesting and production models. He is the coauthor of Alpha Trading System and Better Timing, Higher Profits. He has written several investing strategies handbooks and co-edited two options newsletters. He is the former managing editor of WallStreetCity.com.