PHILIPPE HARTL

MERRILL PRIVATE WEALTH MANAGEMENT Los Angeles, California (No. 15 in Los Angeles Private Wealth)

“I went quickly from being a scientist to an advisor. Getting a rigorous Ph.D. in the hard sciences is about learning how to think, how to problemsolve and how to approach a circumstance . . . . What keeps me up at night is if we continue down this path of becoming more and more dependent on science and technology, that less and less of the population is educated in science and math, or at least has an appreciation for how it affects life—and that will lead to decisions that are not optimal for the species or the country.”