Founder and President, Tiemann Investment Advisors, LLC
Jonathan Tiemann is founder and President of Tiemann Investment Advisors, LLC, an independent investment advisory firm in Menlo Park, California. He complements his investment advisory work with research concerning the history of banking and finance, with emphasis on California in the decades prior to and including the Gold Rush, and the history of trade and commerce in the Pacific Basin, primarily in the nineteenth century. He has written on banking and finance subjects ranging from Alexander Hamilton and the Compromise of 1790 to Bitcoin.
He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yale College, an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Finance from Yale University. Prior to beginning his investment management career, he was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he taught Finance. Case studies that he developed while there are still in use.
GHoC case studies
Discounting Gold: Money and Banking in Gold Rush California
Author(s): Jonathan Tiemann and Christopher McKenna
Money, Cattle Hides and William A Leidesdorff: California before the Gold Rush
Author(s): Jonathan Tiemann, Oenone Kubie, and Christopher McKenna
The Alaskan fur rush and the Russian-American Company
Author: Dr Jonathan Tiemann and Professor Christopher McKenna