Thierry H. Brutman is the founder and CEO of EDDA Stock Invest Corp. (Chicago, USA), a fintech research company with an affiliated entity in the United Kingdom. He is also the founder of the EDDA Stock Finance Research Laboratory (France), an academic and applied research center that collaborates with EDDA USA to advance pioneering models at the intersection of finance, artificial intelligence, and enterprise strategy.
Over the past twenty years, he has developed a unique framework unifying forecasting, option theory, and cognitive AI systems. His contributions include the Brutman Flexibility Index (BFI), the Maximum Rational Investment (MRI), and the Merchant Tracker, all of which extend beyond classical financial models to create a governed and reflexive decision architecture.
His research has been presented and recognized internationally — including ICFT (Singapore, Hong Kong), CTIS (Ordos, China), AICCS (Oxford) — and published in leading outlets such as Wilmott Magazine, the global reference in quantitative finance. He has been invited as an official speaker at the United Nations CICPPP Committee (Geneva, 2025).
Brutman’s work challenges the foundations of Real Options theory, demonstrating its structural invalidity, and proposes instead a governed signal approach (Forecast Intelligence™ and Volvas Cortex) capable of transforming enterprise strategy, monetary systems, and global financing mechanisms.
His current focus is the launch of the Volvas Brain, an operational AI-as-Middleware system, integrating Forecast Intelligence with corporate governance. This innovation is designed to eliminate silos, recalibrate financial forecasts in real time, and provide enterprises and institutions with a living strategic cortex.
Holding two postgraduate research diplomas in economics and in international law & strategy from leading French universities (Université Paris-Dauphine and Université de Droit, Économie et Sciences Sociales de Paris), he has built a unique interdisciplinary expertise. In 2025, he was awarded the Innovative Financial Investment Advisor of the Year (CorporateLiveWire Global Awards), and nominated again for the 2026 edition of the same award.
Through his dual role as founder of an academic research laboratory in France and of a fintech research corporation in the USA, Thierry H. Brutman stands as one of the few researchers bridging AI, finance, and strategic policy into a coherent, operational framework — with immediate applications for enterprises, investors, and sovereigns worldwide.
1999 — First presentation of the Maximum Revenue Model (MRM).
2005 — Pricing policy & enterprise inventory management (IEEE-style work).
2005–2007 — WEKA publications (enterprise strategy, research policy, stock management).
2007 — ICCIE / CIE 37 (Alexandria) – “AI and Strategic Investment Choice under Market Size Risk”.
2010–2016 — Innovation & R&D as Options (Orlando, 2016).
2024 — ICFT (Singapore) – Self-Managed Company (SMCH).
2025 — AICCS (Oxford) – AI as Middleware for the End of Siloes.
2025 — CTIS (Ordos) – Time-Weighted Options (BOS, BFI, MRI, MRM).
2025 — ICFT (Hong Kong) – AI as Middleware: Volvas Brain operational demonstration.
2025 — AIIPCC (Zhuhai) – Non-Monetary Options.
2025 — Monetary Theory of Governed Signals – towards central banks and sovereign financing.