Peter Ricchiuti
Keynote Speaker
Peter Ricchiuti is the business/finance professor you wish you had back in college. He teaches at Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, where he has received numerous awards for his teaching delivery skills. He has been featured in a wide variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The New York Times, Bloomberg, CNBC and The Nightly Business Report.
Ricchiuti has addressed around 1,200 organizations with a wide range of audiences in 47 states and several countries. His speeches focus on what’s ahead for the economy and what the financial markets are revealing about the outlook for particular industries or professions.
Ricchiuti began his career at the investment firm of Kidder Peabody & Co in Boston and later managed more than $3 billion as the Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. He is the host of a popular weekly business show on NPR in New Orleans. Ricchiuti is the author of Stocks Under Rocks: How to Uncover Overlooked, Profitable Market Opportunities.