Roxane Googin

Roxane Googin is a world renowned authority on macroeconomic technology trends and as of August 2020, the Chief Futurist of Group 11, one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after FinTech investors.Prior to joining Group 11, Roxane was the editor of High Tech Observer, a long running invite-only publication read by institutional portfolio managers focusing on the technology sector. Roxane’s research focuses on inter-modal competition between historically disparate economic models forced into direct competition by technological advancements, as these tend to be the most disruptive.Her bold predictions included the Internet boom during the depths of the LTCM credit crisis in 1998, the internet bubble demise in September 2000, and the introduction of smartphones and cloud computing in May 2002 through her much acclaimed article “Six Simultaneous Equations”, to name a few. Roxane Googin has a BS-EE from the University of Tennessee, and an MBA from the University of Virginia.In addition to engineering experience in development and manufacturing, Roxane has experienced finance from the cradle to the grave: from venture capital, through equity analysis, to term and finally to asset-based lending.