Gerlinde Berghofer is Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer at BehaviorQuant, a behavioral financial technology company that improves financial decisions radically by quantifying behavioral aspects of decision makers. BehaviorQuant Advisory provides fully automated analysis of risk attitudes and personal preferences for investment recommendations and advice precisely tailored to individual customers.BehaviorQuant Selection offers a fully automatized interaction and analysis of fund… Show more Gerlinde Berghofer is Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer at BehaviorQuant, a behavioral financial technology company that improves financial decisions radically by quantifying behavioral aspects of decision makers. BehaviorQuant Advisory provides fully automated analysis of risk attitudes and personal preferences for investment recommendations and advice precisely tailored to individual customers.BehaviorQuant Selection offers a fully automatized interaction and analysis of fund managers’ and other investment professionals’ behavioral characteristics, decision tendencies and behavioral risks for unprecedented transparency and predictive insight into financial performance and behavioral risks. Show less

Gerlinde Berghofer is Co-Founder and Partner of FinPsy, a San Francisco based consultancy that provides behavioral and psychological expertise to financial and investment decision-makers. She brings profound expertise with quantitative and qualitative scales for behavioral characteristics to FinPsy and supports clients of FinPsy in building innovative financial applications and engaging tools to measure behavioral characteristics of financial decision makers. Gerlinde Berghofer is also trained… Show more Gerlinde Berghofer is Co-Founder and Partner of FinPsy, a San Francisco based consultancy that provides behavioral and psychological expertise to financial and investment decision-makers. She brings profound expertise with quantitative and qualitative scales for behavioral characteristics to FinPsy and supports clients of FinPsy in building innovative financial applications and engaging tools to measure behavioral characteristics of financial decision makers. Gerlinde Berghofer is also trained clinical psychologist and Board Certified Coach; her interpersonal expertise is based on 20+ years of experience as therapist and executive coach. Show less

- Business Coaching - working with clients to enable them to clarify and achieve their goals to deliver better personal and business outcomes- Offering seminars and trainings - Providing person-centered psychotherapy and clinical psychology to adults- Lecturing for the “Psychotherapeutische Propädeutikum” of the Association for Rogerian Psychotherapy - VRP

- Developed science-based behavioral measures with an emphasis on customer satisfaction and client feedback- Systematized quality assurance system which comprises both data and outcome quality assurance processes for behavioral data and features- Developed behavioral tools to match investors with investments- Interface between behavioral features and product, client solutions, and sales- Established, coordinated, and monitored a national and international intern program

- Developed and conducted quantitative and qualitative research on mental health care issues- Established in-house quality monitoring reports including recommendations for clinical practice- Developed quality assurance tools and standardized treatment evaluation systems- Planned mental health care concepts regarding the community mental health system of Vienna- Conducted scientific projects to evaluate psychiatric outpatient facilities and therapeutic programs

- Provided person-centered crisis intervention to mentally ill patients- Conducted diagnostic in-takes and assessments- Provided short-term therapy sessions to mentally ill persons- Counseled relatives of mentally ill patients

- Led a residential mental care unit as chief psychologist- Provided clinical treatment, single therapy, and group therapy to psychiatric out-patients and relatives- Conducted diagnostic assessments

Taught psychology courses including Issues in Contemporary Psychology: Severe Psychological and Psychiatric Disorders and Abnormal Psychology

Research cooperation with faculty of the Mailman School of Public Health and New York State Psychiatric Institute

Provided psychological counseling to people in crisis

Conducted market research