James Stack, president of InvesTech Research and Stack Financial Management, isn’t your typical investment advisor. Formerly a project manager for IBM Research with a number of domestic and international patents to his credit, Jim has a graduate degree in engineering, with post-graduate study in business. After founding InvesTech Research in 1979, he began publishing the InvesTech newsletter in 1982. Jim and his staff maintain over a century of financial and market data, and create all of the custom analysis software used by InvesTech.