Michael E. Legatt is the CEO and founder of ResilientGrid, Inc., whose mission is to grow resilient infrastructures by optimizing the human side of the infrastructure management, including situational awareness, decision making support and collaboration tools in normal and emergency operations, and in fostering the kinds of organizational culture (high reliability, just culture) that empower humans to work more efficiently and effectively, lowering human error rates. Dr. Legatt has been a programmer for over 20 years, and worked in the energy, financial, medical, neuroscience research and educational sectors. He has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical health psychology/neuropsychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in energy systems engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a Certified Performance Technologist.As an amateur (ham) radio operator, he received a commendation for helping to provide emergency communications during the 2003 blackout in the northeastern United States, which sparked his interest in the psychology of energy management. He works to build systems designed to provide operators with needed information, optimizing for perception, speed, comprehension, and stress management. He also works at the organizational level to support the growth of the industry's high reliability culture.Prior to founding ResilientGrid, Michael spent ten years as the principal human factors engineer for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. There, his development of the Macomber Map® has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, T&D World, and Forbes. The Macomber Map was credited as being instrumental in helping ERCOT operators maintain grid reliability during several record-setting wind generation levels since 2010, and through several severe weather events since 2009.

Michael E. Legatt is the principal human factors engineer for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the flow of electricity to 22.7 million Texas customers. Legatt has been a programmer for over twenty years. He has a Ph.D. in clinical health psychology/neuropsychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As an amateur (ham) radio operator, he received a commendation for helping to provide emergency communications during the 2003 blackout in the northeastern United States, which sparked his interest in the psychology of energy management. He works to build systems designed to provide operators with needed information, optimizing for perception, speed, comprehension, and stress management. His development of the Macomber Map® has been featured in the New York Times and T&D World. The Macomber Map was credited as being instrumental in helping ERCOT operators maintain grid reliability during several record-setting wind generation levels since 2010, and through several severe weather events since 2009. He also works on the behavioral aspects of consumer electric use, researching electric vehicle to grid integration, behavioral aspects of conservation and consumer awareness in grid management, and the cybersecurity, behavioral, and reliability issues that arise with integration of new technologies across layers of the grid.Legatt is currently pursuing a graduate degree in energy systems engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Michael has been working to implement LCM's novel quantitative equity analysis approaches through software development and IT infrastructure. Michael's interests in psychology have extended to both the technology world, in the fields of human factors and usability, and in the finance sector, in behavioral economics. Lightstone Capital Management was founded in 1998 as a portfolio sub-advisor with a main focus on U.S. equity markets. LCM uses quantitative methods of stock selection to develop portfolios across all equity styles. LCM strategies use a proprietary analysis of estimate revisions; "we analyze the analysts".LCM's products are designed to be private labeled and offered by our institutional partners. Besides our current conventional strategies, LCM has also developed values-based investment strategies (VBI) for both Christian and Shariah-compliant investors in order to offer them the same investment opportunities that have long been available to conventional investors in U.S. equities.LCM's Shariah-compliant fund Mizan has received Morningstar's highest five star rating, and has offered stable high-return, low-risk performance over more than five years.

At Arabesque, Michael is responsible for the integration of Lightstone products and furthering the quantitative and technological research of the Arabesque Prime fund. Michael's research areas cover a vast array of fields such as behavioral economics, quantitative equity analysis, big data computation, visualization and integration, software development and human-computer interaction.