Patrick Welton

About Patrick Welton

Dr. Patrick Welton, Founder & Chief Investment OfficerDr. Welton is a Founder of the firm and serves as its Chief Investment Officer. He has been an active investor for more than three decades, an investment manager since 1989, and actively contributes to the firm’s ongoing research. Dr. Welton has served on committees for the Managed Funds Association (MFA) and as a prior member of the Board of Directors of the National Futures Association (NFA). He speaks at numerous conferences globally every year, participates in panel presentations, and has authored numerous articles about alternative investments, macroeconomic impacts on markets, and investment theory. Dr. Welton served as Chair of the Board of Montage Health and chaired its pension and foundation investment committee. He served a Director and Vice Chair of the Panetta Institute of Public Policy where he also served on its investment committee. In the late 1990’s, he Co-Founded Axios Data Analysis, one of the first large scale data analytics firms focused on healthcare data. His former research experience includes molecular biological work in gene sequencing, biophysics with a focus on positron emission neurofunctional brain imaging, and oncology through clinical cancer trials during a nearly 20 year period as Clinical Professor at Stanford University Hospital. He holds undergraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Stanford University respectively.

Experience

1. Founder and CIO

   Welton Investment Partners

   Nov 1988 — Present

Education

• UCLA

  Doctoral Degree, Medicine and Biophysics

  1982 — 1986

• Stanford University

  Postdoctoral Work, Medicine - Therapeutic Radiology

  1987 — 1990

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor's Degree, Molecular Biology and English

  1978 — 1982