Craig C. Callahan, DBA

Dr. Callahan is Founder and President of ICON Advisers, Inc. He created the ICON valuation model that advances the investment methodology originally developed by Benjamin Graham, the "Father of Securities Analysis," adapting it to today's ever-changing market conditions.

Callahan received a doctorate of business administration degree (DBA) in finance and statistics from Kent State University and a bachelor of science degree from The Ohio State University. Prior to founding ICON, he was a finance professor at the University of Denver and the director of research for a regional brokerage firm. His management of investments dates back to 1986.

Callahan has been a television guest on networks such as CNBC, CNN-fn and Nightly Business Report, and has been profiled in a number of leading business and investment publications. He frequently addresses broker/dealer, institutional and investor conferences.

In 2005, he and Tom Howard founded AthenaInvest of Denver for which he is now a non-management owner. AthenaInvest has conducted research showing that the market cap/value/growth boxes popularized by Morningstar and widely used in the equity management industry are hurting performance and are poor risk reduction tools. AthenaInvest developed Strategy Based Investing alternative which was commercially launched in September 2007.