Leadership

Bennett Stewart

Bennett Stewart, chairman and chief executive, was a co-founder in 1982 of Stern Stewart & Co., the global consulting firm that pioneered the development and corporate applications of EVA.  He was the principal creator of the EVA framework.  He formed EVA Dimensions in 2006 to acquire the EVA brand and related technologies from Stern Stewart to provide services in the fields of financial benchmark data, performance management and valuation software, and investment research and funds management.

Bennett is the author of The Quest for Value, which is regarded as the definitive guide to EVA. He has also written numerous articles on corporate financial management and valuation for publications such as the Harvard Business Review (“Pension Roulette,” “Reform Governance From Within”) and the Morgan Stanley Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (“EVA – Myths and Misconceptions,” “How to fix Accounting: Measure and Reward Economic Profit”).  He has lectured widely and frequently garners the top rating among conference speakers.

A cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering (1974), he also holds an MBA degree (1976) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.  He serves as a member (and former chairman) of the Alumni Advisory Council for Princeton’s Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, is a member of the Advisory Board for the Morgan Stanley Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and is a director and member of the audit and compensation committees of ITC Holdings (NYSE:ITC), the nation’s largest independent electric distribution company.

Al Ehrbar

Al Ehrbar, executive vice president and chief operating officer, also serves as head of marketing and communications.  Prior to the formation of EVA Dimensions, Al was a partner at Stern Stewart & Co. and head of BrandEconomics LLC, a Stern Stewart subsidiary that created the first wholly objective methodology for valuing brands and modeling the impact of brand strategies on business value.  Before launching BrandEconomics, he ran Stern Stewart’s global marketing and the EVA Institute, a continuing education forum for EVA clients. 

Before joining Stern Stewart in 1995, Al spent more than 20 years as one of the most prominent business and financial journalists in the U.S.  He was the youngest person ever elected to Fortune magazine’s Board of Editors and was the first to write about many of the breakthroughs in modern portfolio theory. John Bogle credits Al’s Fortune articles as a prime catalyst to his creation of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.

Al also has been a senior economics writer at The Wall Street Journal and was editor and publisher of Corporate Finance magazine and chief operating officer of its parent company.  He is the author four books, including the bestselling EVA: The Real Key to Creating Wealth (John Wiley & Sons, 1998).  He has an MBA in finance and economics from the University of Rochester and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.

Craig Sterling

Craig Sterling, Managing Director and Head of Global Equity Research, Prior to joining EVA Dimensions in September 2011, Craig was a Director in the HOLT Group at Credit Suisse, where he managed advisory relationships with very large asset managers and hedge funds, and consistently was a top producer.  Over the past decade, Craig also was instrumental in shaping HOLT’s content and services and upgrading HOLT into a highly valued research provider.  He developed strategic frameworks for hundreds of company and sector analyses that integrated a common economic framework with fundamentals and themes.  Craig co-authored papers on M&A, corporate life cycles of tech and retail, and understanding the valuation of secular declining companies and industries. 

Before Credit Suisse, Craig worked in the Global Industrials Group of the Investment Bank of UBS and the Investment Services Division of Mesirow Financial.  He holds an undergraduate business degree from Washington University (St. Louis) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 

Ling Yang

Ling Yang, CFA, executive vice president, director of research and product development, serves a key role in product development. Before co-founding EVA Dimensions, Ling was employed for six years with Stern Stewart, where she was vice president in charge of developing and supporting the PRVit stock rating system and the Financial Radar Screen.  Prior to that she was a consultant engaged in designing and implementing Stern Stewart’s EVA management and incentive programs for companies in the energy, automobile, and food and beverage sectors.

Prior to joining Stern Stewart, Ling was employed by Shell in China, where she was involved in the acquisition of Chinese companies in oil and gas marketing and distribution.  She gained in-depth experience with international investing during her service as a financial specialist in Shell’s investments in multiple projects, including fuel through-putting, LPG terminals, retail service stations and fuel projects.

Ling is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute, and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  A native of China, she holds a B.E. in industrial management from Jiao Tong University in China, and earned an MBA with concentrations in accounting and finance from Vanderbilt Graduate School of Business.  She is the co-author of “The Investors Guide to EVA and PRVit.”