Bradford Stanley, CFA, serves as Chief Investment and Chief Technology Officer of The Stanley-Laman Group, which he joined in 2003. In this role, Brad directs the firm's investment strategy and oversees the architecture and development of its proprietary analytical and artificial intelligence platforms.
Brad is the creator and architect of the firm's proprietary Ad-Star® System, an analytical framework that evaluates publicly traded companies through comprehensive fundamental and forensic analysis of over ten thousand historical financial metrics, ratios, and proprietary algorithms. Ad-Star® enables rapid assessment of earnings quality, financial health, and operating history across large investment universes, systematically identifying companies that meet the firm's fundamental standards and filtering those that do not.
Since 2024, Brad has led the firm's artificial-intelligence integration, architecting two proprietary systems that together operate as a self-contained analytical institution. The Fusion Engine® orchestrates the collective reasoning of frontier artificial intelligence — an ensemble of the leading systems engineered to interrogate its own conclusions and advance only what withstands independent scrutiny, producing intelligence of substantial analytical depth and breadth. Zygent AI™, the firm's autonomous agentic workforce, conducts deep research and strategic analysis while building and maintaining the institutional-grade quantitative infrastructure beneath the investment process — from backtesting engines and portfolio optimization to proprietary data pipelines — compounding its own expertise with every cycle. Both systems operate under structural human oversight, with engineered safeguards at every layer.
Brad is a CFA Charterholder, having earned the designation in 2009 after passing all three examinations on the first attempt. He is a member of the American Finance Association and the CFA Society of Philadelphia.
Brad earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, with a minor in Cognitive Psychology. He was awarded the Carnegie Mellon Senior Leadership Award. His dual background in computer science and quantitative finance equips him to integrate advanced technology with rigorous investment discipline.
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