Nik Bhatia

Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. He is author of the #1 bestseller Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies. He currently writes The Bitcoin Layer, a research publication on Substack. Previously, Nik worked on the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensive trading experience in money markets and interest rate futures. He has a BA in Social Sciences from University of Southern California, a Master in Finance from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, and is both a CFA and CMT charterholder. Nik lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

Education

• MBA University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (1998 — 2000)
• BS Utah State University (1981 — 1986)
• Soda Springs Idaho

Companies

• Adjunct Professor - Data Science(DSO), Human Capital Analytics University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (2020)
• Member, Human Capital Technical Advisory Group (TAG) ISO International Organization for Standardization (2011)
• Founder and CEO Human Capital Management Institute (2009)
• Executive Vice President Infohrm (2007 — 2009)
• Executive Vice President of Workforce Planning Countrywide Financial Corporation (2007 — 2007)
• VP of HR The Irvine Company (2005 — 2007)
• VP of Compensation & Human Capital Analytics IndyMac Bank (2001 — 2005)
• CFO Klune Industries (2000 — 2001)
• VP of Finance/Controller & Project Director Johnson & Johnson (1994 — 2000)