Learn from Industry Veterans
Our financial modeling program isn't taught by academics — it's led by professionals who've spent decades building models that matter. Each instructor brings real-world experience from major financial institutions, consulting firms, and successful startups.
Meet Your Instructors
Three seasoned professionals who've moved from theory to practice and back to teaching. Their combined experience spans investment banking, risk management, and strategic consulting across multiple continents.
Casper Thornfield
Casper spent fifteen years at Deutsche Bank developing risk models for complex derivatives. After the 2015 regulatory changes, he moved into consulting, helping mid-size firms build robust scenario modeling frameworks. What sets his teaching apart is his focus on understanding when models break down — something you only learn through experience.
Indira Blackwood
Before teaching, Indira led valuation teams at KPMG for eight years, working on deals worth over billion. She's seen every type of financial model imaginable — and more importantly, knows which ones actually work under pressure. Her approach emphasizes building models that survive real-world scrutiny and time constraints.
Zelda Morven
Zelda built her reputation as the CFO who could make sense of uncertainty. During her tenure at three different startups, she developed forecasting methods that helped secure over million in funding. Her classes focus on the art of modeling when historical data is limited or unreliable — a skill that's increasingly valuable.
How Real Professionals Teach
Forget textbook examples with clean data and obvious answers. Our instructors use the same messy, incomplete, and conflicting information they encountered in their careers. You'll learn to build models that work when nothing goes according to plan.
- Work with actual deal data from past transactions (anonymized)
- Learn troubleshooting techniques for when Excel crashes at midnight
- Understand how to present uncertain results to skeptical executives
- Build models that others can actually understand and modify
Program duration with monthly cohort check-ins and peer review sessions
Real case studies from instructor portfolios, including both successes and notable failures
Instructor-to-student ratio during hands-on modeling workshops
Access to instructor feedback through collaborative modeling platform