PEABODY ? North Shore resident Robert Gough, president and chief executive officer of G-enovation, Inc., will deliver a talk on Jan. 28 focused on the national economic bailout, the remedial strategy proposed by President-elect Barack Obama, and how the United States got into such a mess.Gough’s presentation, entitled “U.S. Economy in Crisis: Bubbles, Bailouts, Bankruptcies, Blame and Barack”, will highlight the breakfast meeting of the North Shore Technology Council.The event at the hotel, 8A Centennial Drive, begins with a networking session and continental breakfast at 7 a.m. The talk is scheduled from 7:45 to 9 a.m.Leslie Scott-Lysan, the council’s communications director, described Gough as a global growth strategist whose firm that specializes in the design and implementation of so-called intelligent decision systems.As she put it, “The company combines performance enhancement practices with leading technologies to provide client organizations with information system tools and real-time datasets for quick-response decision making.”According to Scott-Lysan, the speaker’s primary responsibility is managing the design, analysis, and execution of custom, strategic decision systems.A longtime North Shore resident who now lives in Beverly, Gough is an economist who focuses on macroeconomic forces worldwide, as well as growth strategies for charting and negotiating various macroeconomic environments, said Scott-Lysan, adding that he has filled in for David Caruso, providing listeners an early view of the stock market on the “Before the Bell” show on WBZ NewsRadio 1030.Most recently, Gough was managing director of Lexington Partners, a strategic investment-banking firm, where his primary responsibility was the development and assessment of investment opportunities, including the deal structure and capitalization of many portfolio companies. He has helped to establish or expand several companies in the biotech, communications, software, internet, and investment fields, as well as advised investment companies, most recently Taiyo Pacific Partners and Windward Investment Management.Gough was also managing director and chief investment strategist at Fernwood Investment Management, an investment company focused on managing alternative investment portfolios across a wide variety of major art sectors, as well as venture-related opportunities in the art market. His primary responsibilities included directing the company’s investment research and serving as a senior member of the company’s investment and operating committees.Scott-Lysan said Gough believes that by understanding the underlying forces that drive the housing and energy markets and what precipitated this “perfect storm” of an economic crisis, people will understand how the U.S. can come out of the crisis, and improve accountability and trust in our financial system – as well as ourselves.”As capitalism requires credit and credit requires trust, he believes that if we don’t fix trust and how we hold our institutions and ourselves accountable, we will be in for a long economic winter,” she said.Among the key questions Gough is slated to address in his presentation: How did we get ourselves into this economic mess? Was it foreseeable? How bad might things get before the economy improves?Tickets to the event are $25 for council members and $45 for non-council members. To register, go online to www.nstc.org or email [email protected] council is a volunteer-led, non-profit technology trade association based at the Cummings Center in Beverly, with a mission to build a community for interaction, collaboration, and advancement of technology industries in northeastern Massachusetts, Scott-Lysan said.