Dr. Bettis has business oversight responsibility as Gradient's chairman. As chief scientist, he oversees Gradient's research on existing products and evolving areas of thought leadership. He is a former tenured professor and a serial and successful entrepreneur with significant management, business, and government experience. He is a well-recognized expert on corporate executive behavior, option valuation, and earnings management, having spearheaded the development of Equity Incentive Analytics. Dr. Bettis holds a clinical position as associate research professor of finance at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His pioneering work has been published in prestigious academic journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, as well as other widely read journals, such as Abacus and the Financial Analyst Journal. He holds finance and accounting undergraduate degrees and earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1992.