Joseph Swanson, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968) is Adjunct Professor of Finance at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (where he was Professor of Finance from 1975-1986) and is President of Jos. Swanson & Co. Swanson, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based firm, founded in 1972, provides strategic and financial counsel to major U.S. companies. Its engagements in the field of strategy design have been with: BP p.l.c.; Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.; Canadian National; CSX Corporation; DRI/McGraw-Hill; Ernst & Young LLP; General Electric Company; i2 Technologies; Itel Corporation; Mark VII, Inc.; M.S. Carriers; Norfolk Southern; Rockwell International; Schneider National Inc.; Sears, Roebuck & Company; SLS Inc.; TTX Co.; and PepsiAmericas. The firm is also active in providing counsel in the telecommunications sector, where Microsoft Inc.; Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.; and Southern Wireless, LP have been clients. The company’s clients in the financial services area include: Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, and Citigroup. For the past thirty years, Jos. Swanson & Co. has provided effective litigation support to leading U.S. corporations. Dr. Swanson was previously Vice President of The Chicago Corporation, a privately held investment banking firm, and Senior Vice President–Corporate Development at CalFed, Inc. He has taught economics, finance and statistics at the following institutions: Purdue University (1967-1969), the University of Iowa (1970-1974), and Northwestern University (1975-present).
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