Myron S Scholes

"Myron S. Scholes" is a Partner of Oak Hill Capital Management and a Principal of Oak Hill Platinum Partners. He is also involved in the private and public investment activities of the Robert M. Bass organization. Professor Scholes has been the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 1996. Professor Scholes is widely known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital markets, tax policies, and the financial services industry....See more

"Myron S. Scholes" is a Partner of Oak Hill Capital Management and a Principal of Oak Hill Platinum Partners. He is also involved in the private and public investment activities of the Robert M. Bass organization. Professor Scholes has been the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 1996. Professor Scholes is widely known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital markets, tax policies, and the financial services industry. He is co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing model, which is the basis of the pricing and risk management technology that is used to value and to manage the risk of financial instruments around the world. For this work, he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997. He was the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business from 1983 to 1996 and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1987 to 1996. He received a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Chicago where he served as the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Business from 1974 to 1983 and Director of the Center for Research in Security Prices from 1976 to 1983. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Finance at Sloan School of Management, MIT, from 1969 to 1974. Professor Scholes is a member of the Econometric Society and served as President of the American Finance Association in 1990. Professor Scholes has honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Paris, McMaster University, and Louvain University. Professor Scholes has consulted widely with many financial institutions, corporations, and exchanges. He was a Principal and Limited Partner at Long-Term Capital Management LP, an investment management firm, from 1993 to 1998. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers, a member of Salomon's risk management committee, and Co-Head of its Fixed Income Derivatives Sales and Trading Department, where he was instrumental in building Salomon Swapco, its derivatives intermediation subsidiary, and in expanding its derivative sales and trading group. "Mark A. Wolfson" is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Management (OHCM) and has played instrumental roles in the establishment of Oak Hill Strategic Partners, Oak Hill Venture Partners, Oak Hill Platinum Partners, Oak Hill Investment Management, and the Oak Hill Special Opportunities Fund. OHCM manages Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity partnership founded by Robert M. Bass and his longtime team of investment professionals. Mr. Wolfson serves on the Boards of Directors of 230 Park Investors, Accretive Healthcare, Caribbean Restaurants, DaVinci I, LLC (Japan real estate), eGain Communications, Financial Engines, and Investment Technology Group. Mr. Wolfson holds the title of Consulting Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has been a faculty member since 1977, including a three-year term as Associate Dean, and formerly held the title of Dean Witter Professor. He has also taught at the Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. -Mr. Wolfson has been a Research Associate at The NationalBureau of Economic Research since 1988 and serves on The Board of Trustees of Menlo School as well as the Board of Advisors and Executive Committee of The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. "Merle Erickson" is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago where... See less