Wesley Gray

Wesley R. Gray is an American author, veteran and a former assistant professor of finance. He is best known for his book, EMBEDDED: A Marine Corps Adviser Inside the Iraqi Army, an account of his eight-month military assignment in Iraq.

Early life Raised on a cattle ranch in Colorado and having spent part of his youth in Northern California, Gray graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 2002. After graduating, he enrolled at the University of Chicago.

Military service In 2004, Gray took a four-year sabbatical from his studies to serve as an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps. The 240-page book came from 1000 pages of personal notes that he logged during his eight-month military assignment in Iraq to share with his wife and daughter. After his service he obtained both a M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in 2010. In December 2012, Gray and co-author Tobias Carlisle had QUANTITATIVE VALUE: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors published by John Wiley & Sons. Gray is the founder and Executive Managing Member of both Empiritrage, LLC and Turnkey Analyst, LLC. He is also an Assistant Professor of Finance at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business. By December 2014, the company launched a second exchange-traded fund (ETF)—following its October initial offering.

Personal life Gray's wife is named Katie. They have two daughters and a son. During his time in the Marine Corps, Gray learned to speak Arabic.