Scott Shelton

About Scott Shelton

I’m an investment strategist and researcher with more than two decades of experience analyzing public and private markets, building data-driven frameworks, and designing quantitative systems to understand market structure.As Co-Founder and Chief Investment Strategist of IPO Prophet, I’ve led the development of a proprietary analytics platform focused on IPO and ECM dynamics — bridging event-driven trading, research, and data engineering. The platform integrates multi-source APIs (GraphQL, QuoteMedia, FRED) into a structured issuance database that quantifies market behavior across cycles.My career began on the trading and research desks at Unicom Capital and Berlin Investment Group, where I managed multi-strategy portfolios and later originated the Equity Syndicate Strategy — a model that became the foundation for subsequent institutional collaborations. Through Alpha Group Capital and Nystrom Capital, I refined that strategy for institutional and family-office investors, emphasizing risk-adjusted performance and behavioral insight.Today, my work combines markets and technology — helping investors and data platforms translate complex market events into actionable analytics. I’m particularly interested in collaborations that bridge private and public-market intelligence, enhance data transparency, and quantify behavioral drivers around equity issuance.Outside of markets, I’m a former competitive skier and a father of four. The combination of discipline, composure, and patience that shaped both those experiences continues to influence how I approach research, leadership, and problem solving today.

Experience

1. Co-founder & Chief Investment Strategist

   Ipo Prophet

   Jan 2022 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   I lead research design, data architecture, and analytics development for IPO Prophet — a quantitative research platform that analyzes equity issuance and market structure. My focus is on building models, signals, and indices that help investors interpret issuance behavior and post-offering dynamics.

Education

• University of Denver

  Graduate Certificate, Business Information and Analytics

  2013 — 2013

• University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business

  Business Administration, Finance and Accounting

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Valuation
• Equity Trading
• Predictive Modeling
• Predictive Analytics
• Hedge Funds
• Asset Management
• Microsoft Excel
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Statistics
• Trading
• Equities
• Securities
• Spss
• Capital Markets
• Hedging
• Alternative Investments
• Portfolio Management
• Fixed Income
• Bloomberg
• Data Mining
• Options
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Data Analysis
• Financial Markets
• Ipo
• Financial Modeling
• Investments