Prior to being named the Executive Director of the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities at the University of Colorado Denver Business School, Dr. Thomas Brady was the Chief Economist at Newmont Mining Corporation where he was responsible for generating key commodity price, foreign exchange and other financial assumptions used throughout the company. In this role, Dr. Brady also developed methods to effectively quantify and communicate the economic impact of Newmont’s operations to host communities and countries. Prior to this position, Dr. Brady led Newmont’s Strategic Planning function that developed and implemented portfolio modeling analytics.
Before Newmont, Dr. Brady was a Senior Manager at Risk Capital Management, a consultancy that advised energy and natural resource companies on financial risk, valuation and commodity hedging. He has also worked with CQG, Inc. where he developed a suite of automated trading systems for commodity futures contracts using the company’s short-term, price and volume charting methods. He holds a Ph.D. in Mineral Economics with research emphases in commodity markets from the Colorado School of Mines. In addition, Dr. Brady holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics, also from the Colorado School of Mines.
Sarah has spent the majority of her career as a connector and convener of people, building relationships and education across all aspects of energy to ensure a “just transition” for communities and building the energy workforce of the future. She sits on many non-profit boards that support diversity in Energy including Women’s Energy Network.
Sarah is skilled at creating dialogue, programming, discussions, and partnerships that ensure we reduce our emissions while building out and innovating our human energy capital. She is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion in energy, both in fuels and people.
Yang’s expertise on commodities attracts extensive media attention. His media articles (about 120) feature JPMCC in several dozen countries in multiple languages, including prominent English media outlets such as Reuters, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, World Finance magazine (U.K.), China Daily (global and U.S. editions, its European Weekly in the U.K. and African Weekly in Kenya), Australian Financial Review, and RT (the Russian international television network). The media articles are also published in major Chinese-language media outlets: Economic Daily, China National Radio, and China Securities Journal, with some of them posted on the official websites of the Chinese Central Government and its national government agencies.
She has played an integral role in the vision, leadership, and strategic direction of student services. Michele is responsible for ensuring faculty, student, and alumni systems operate efficiently and effectively. She handles all course instructional design, AACSB data collection and reporting, student communications, and program marketing efforts. Michele leads innovative enrollment, retention, and course analytics projects for the program to make strategic data-driven decisions.
Michele holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Arts in Leadership: Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of Colorado.