Max Izatt

Michael A. X. (Max) Izatt was trained as a theoretical chemical physicist and worked on strategic-defense class space-based weapons in the national laboratories before applying his quantitative skills to fixed income securities pricing and valuation for a global trading organization. He was a principal quantitative programmer of a leading binomial-lattice tree pricing engine that provided a robust and dexterous platform with which to price exotic options, interest rates and their derivatives, and capital project allocations.

Max left Wall Street for business school in the mid-1990s, and turned his attention to financial-, accounting-, and tax-technology. He led a group of CPA-credentialed quantitative programmers, database engineers, and international and United States federal tax experts for the International Data Center of a Big 6 accounting firm. His group was tasked with applying technology, statistical methods, and tax law to find tax-arbitrage opportunities for Global 1000 business firms, primarily in cross-border transactions.

Returning to his quantitative roots, Max joined a leading quantitative marketing firm as Director of the eBusiness Solutions Refinery, the authoritative library of Java and UNIX codebase that allowed the firm to increase margin across a portfolio of customer-relationship management (CRM) and closed-loop marketing projects. Max led the data engineering teams and made contributions to the data-mining and business-intelligence product base for the energy, oil & gas, and electrical-transmission industry sectors.

Max founded CentraLytics in 2002 and embraced the then-new Microsoft .Net technologies. He holds one pending patent and several trade-secreted technology applications, along with Paul M. Asplund, in applying Microsoft .Net and Microsoft Office portals to enterprise quantitative computing for finance, accounting, tax, and transfer-pricing applications. Max has also applied the Microsoft .Net Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) libraries to a variety of secure data transmission applications, using public key infrastructure (PKI) to bring enterprise computational resources to the remote desktop for Global 1000 and Fortune 500 business.

Max is a certified public accountant, accredited in business valuation and certified in financial forensics (CPA/ABV/CPP). He is a member of the Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) , the American Statistical Association (ASA), and the state CPA societies of Minnesota and Illinois. Max is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and a life member of the United States Naval Institute and the Naval Submarine League. He holds vendor certifications from Teradata, Microsoft, Sun, and the SAS Institute. He is a graduate of M.I.T. and the University of Chicago and holds the Diploma of the Royal Society of Arts at Cambridge University.