- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Mary Laplante
Mary Laplante is Vice President, The Gilbane Group , an analyst and consulting firm that provides education, advice and market expertise in content management technologies. She oversees the Gilbane Group consulting practice, manages research projects, contributes editorial content, and participates in Gilbane conferences and other industry events. Laplante has twenty years of experience in standards, publishing, software marketing, and research and consulting arenas.
- Zia Daniell Wigder
Zia Daniell Wigder Vice President & Senior Analyst Zia Daniell Wigder focuses on issues of globalization, including language translation, localization, the globalization of marketing campaigns and international communication strategies. Prior to her current role, Wigder directed both the media and the broadband practices at JupiterResearch.
- Zia Daniell
Zia Daniell Wigder Vice President & Senior Analyst Zia Daniell Wigder focuses on issues of globalization, including language translation, localization, the globalization of marketing campaigns and international communication strategies. Prior to her current role, Wigder directed both the media and the broadband practices at JupiterResearch.
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Maribel Lopez
- Mary Margaret Evans
Ms. Evans is currently a Vice President at The Insitu Group, Inc. where she is focusing her efforts on corporate process. She joined the company in 2006. In August 2006, Ms. Evans left 20 years of Government service as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Defense Technology Integration) in the Advanced Systems and Concepts office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
- Monique V. Sinmao
Ms. Sinmao is responsible for the analysis and valuation of investment opportunities for Hovde Capital Advisors, particularly those companies in the bank and thrift sector. Prior to joining Hovde Capital, Ms. Sinmao was a Vice President and Senior Analyst covering regional bank stocks for J.P. Morgan Securities in New York. She has additional sell-side experience following the banking sector for Criterion Research and Lehman Brothers.
- Josh Bernoff
Josh Bernoff , an analyst with Forrester Research, reports that Sony Electronics, one of Sony’s core businesses, joined their sister company PlayStation on the blogosphere yesterday. This is the second blog in the past month that Sony has launched.
- Sundeep Kumar CFA
Software Analyst with immense experience in Trading Systems Front End and Graphical User Interface Design using C++ and COM/ATL ( Visual C++), OMS Design, Program Trading. Good Analytic background with proficiency in Financial modelling of Derivatives, Fixed Income Products and Equities.
- Suzanne B. Price
Suzanne B. Price joined ThinkEquity Partners in August 2006 and is a Vice President/Senior Analyst focused on the Green Living Sector. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Suzanne worked as an Analyst for Crown Advisors, a small capitalization focused asset management firm, based in New York. Prior to that, Suzanne was an Associate researching investment opportunities for Giuliani Partners LLC.
- Jon N. Pardew
Jon N. Pardew Principal Principal Associate Associate Associate Associate Associate Analyst Analyst Analyst Analyst Senior Analyst Analyst Director of Operations Office Administrator Office Administrator Office Administrator Jon N. Pardew Jon is a Principal at St. Charles Capital. Previously, Mr. Pardew was an Executive at Wallach Capital.
- Greg Poulos
Greg Poulos is a founding partner and Senior Analyst for the Small Cap Growth team at Copper Rock Capital. He was previously a Vice President and dedicated Equity Analyst for the Small Cap Growth team at State Street Research. Prior to State Street Research, he held the position of Vice President at Loomis Sayles working as a Specialty Growth Analyst for health care, technology and consumer sectors with a market cap up to $10 billion.
- Paul Goode
Paul Goode has been at the forefront of enabling the mobile content and applications market since the mid-nineties, as an innovator within multinational mobile companies. Goode’s career has spanned from the early days of m-commerce to the mobile entertainment industry, building developer communities for Metrowerks and Motorola and a founder of the Mobile Game Interoperability Forum (now part of OMA).
- I. Craig Hester
I. Craig Hester , CFA, CIC, President & CEO Chairman of the Board Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager Mr. Hester has been actively involved in professional investment management since 1972. Prior to forming HCM in 1989, Mr. Hester served as Director of Regional Asset Management for InterFirst Investment Management (1983-89); Chief Investment Officer of the Texas Municipal Retirement System (1979-1983); Asst.
- Daniel Mannes
Daniel Mannes , CFA – Vice President Senior Research Analyst - Energy Daniel Mannes is a Senior Research Analyst, covering the Alternative and Fossil Energy sector. Prior to joining Avondale in November 2005, was a principal financial analyst with Constellation Energy’s treasury group, based in Baltimore. He also has served as senior analyst at First Annapolis Consulting.
- Bill Burger
Bill Burger VP - Marketing, Copyright Clearance Center Bill Burger is vice president of marketing at Copyright Clearance Center, the world's leading provider of content licensing solutions for corporations, colleges and universities. Bill's first career was journalism. He spent 14 years as an editor, writer and foreign correspondent at Newsweek, where he focused on business, economics and international affairs while working in New York, London and Tokyo.
- Lars Mieritz
Lars Mieritz , Research VP, Gartner Lars Mieritz is a vice president and director of research in Gartner Research, where he is part of the Asset Management & Applied Research team whose role it is to make Gartner's research on total cost of ownership, investment justification, business value of IT and vendor selection issues directly applicable to client organizations through Gartner's Software products.
- Bennett Kim
Bennett Kim is currently a Vice President at Apollo Real Estate Advisors. Bennett has been associated with Apollo since 2000 and is responsible for new investments and investment management. From 1999 to 2000, Bennett was an Assistant Vice President at Oaktree Capital Management, where he evaluated and executed investments for funds totaling $1.7 billion of equity. Previously, he worked at Disney Development Company and Walt Disney Imagineering.
- Jeff Boles
Jeff Boles , Technology Analyst Jeff joins Taneja Group from a broad background of hands-on operational IT management and infrastructure engineering, bringing to the group over 20 years of deep experience within the trenches of practicing IT.
- John D. Hirsch
John D. Hirsch , M.D., FACS, is a Senior Vice-President within the Strategy Implementation and Management Services divisions of Navvis. He brings a well-rounded perspective to his work with clients. Dr. Hirsch’s background includes 30 years of experience as a practicing general surgeon and successful entrepreneur as well as having held senior executive and other leadership positions with hospitals, surgical centers and other organizations in the healthcare industry.
- John Rovani
John Rovani brings to The McLean Group extensive corporate development and investment banking experience that spans many industries around the globe. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Rovani has positioned, packaged, built and turned around firms while advising clients who seek to achieve growth and exit strategies. Bilingual in English and French and proficient in Spanish, he is a dual citizen of the United States and Europe.
- Steve Parkis
Steve Parkis , Vice President, Premium Content, Disney Online: Steve Parkis is the vice president of the premium content team at Disney Online (disney.com), the division of the Walt Di sney Internet Group that produces the No. 1 kids' entertainment and family community destination on the Web.
- Michael Armstrong
Michael is a Managing Director and Associate Director of Research. He was formerly in Equity Research at Merrill Lynch & Co. in San Francisco , where he was a member of the Global Growth Group, covering small and mid-cap growth stocks. Mike was previously a research associate at Montgomery Securities in the Growth Stock Strategy group, focused on identifying emerging trends and industries and was also actively involved in the creation of the Montgomery Growth Index.
- Craig Moffett
Craig Moffett joined Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. as the Senior Analyst for U.S. Cable and Satellite Broadcasting in 2002. Mr. Moffett was voted the #1 analyst in the sector in the 2006 Institutional Investors' All-American-Research poll, in only his third year as an analyst. Mr. Moffett spent eleven years at The Boston Consulting Group, where as a Partner and Vice President he led the firm's global practice in telecommunications.
- Evan Neufeld
Evan Neufeld Evan Neufeld oversees M:Metrics consulting practice. A well-respected analyst in the fields of new media, advertising and interactive marketing, Neufeld's experience includes senior-level roles at NPDTechworld and Jupiter Research, where he was a founding analyst of Jupiter's well-known digital advertising research practice.
- Mark Mooradian
Mark Mooradian , SVP, Business Development and Partner Relations, MediaNet Digital Mr. Mooradian oversees worldwide business development, marketing, strategy and partner relations for the company and is responsible for identifying, expanding and managing MediaNet Digital's global roster of distribution partners. In addition, he is responsible for marketing, strategy and public relations on a global basis.
- Stu Rosenthal
Stu previously was an Analyst at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (GMO), a Boston-based quantitative manager. At GMO, Stu worked on various initiatives including risk analytics, portfolio optimization, asset allocation, performance attribution, and investment systems analysis.
- Randal C. Fisher
Mr. Fisher has over 15 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, and new venture business development including 3 years devoted to cross border M&A and business development in India and SE Asia. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions for SPI Technologies, Inc., Asia's largest independent business process outsourcing (BPO) company, leading their global M&A and business development activities.
- Benjamin J. Harper
Ben joined GVNW’s Western Region office in 1990 as a Consultant/Analyst and is currently a Vice President working with client companies in Oregon, California, Nevada, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and Palau. Ben graduated from Brigham Young University in 1987 and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting with a minor in Business Fundamentals. After graduation, he worked for the Contel Corporation in the Western Region office.
- Jeffrey M. Gibbons
Jeffrey M. Gibbons , Senior Analyst , r esponsible for providing critical analysis for acquisitions, financing and dispositions, as well as managing Argus software analysis of both individual property and portfolio returns. Mr. Gibbons has had thirty years of banking experience and twenty years in urban real estate lending. Most recently, he served as vice president of real estate lending at Bank Boston First Community Bank.
- Martin J. Steinik
Martin J. Steinik Martin J. Steinik , Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, began his career in the industry in 1994 and joined Brown Capital Management in 2005. Martin J. Steinik , Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, began his career in the industry in 1994 and joined Brown Capital Management in 2005.
- Jason Tsai
Jason Tsai Jason joined ThinkEquity Partners in February 2003 as a Vice President and Research Associate focusing on the Wireless Communications sector. Previously, Jason was a Senior Analyst with RTX Securities, where he started the Wireless Telecommunications practice.
- Jeffrey M. Kaplan
Jeffrey M. Kaplan - Founder and Managing Director - THINKstrategies Jeff Kaplan founded THINKstrategies in 2001 to help IT solutions companies, IT executives and IT venture capital firms re-THINK their IT strategies and redeploy their limited resources to meet their corporate objectives. Prior to this, Jeff spent 13 years as a leading industry analyst and market research consultant.
- Mark Fischer
MARK FISCHER , Senior Equity Analyst and Regional Portfolio Manager, focuses on fundamental research on Eastern European, Middle Eastern and African companies in emerging markets. Before joining DCM in 2007, Mr. Fischer was a Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager for Fischer-Seitz Capital Partners, LLC and a Managing Director and Senior Analyst for Banc of America Securities, LLC.
- Sam Cobb
Mr. Cobb graduated Magna Cum Laude in Computer Information Systems from Southwest Texas State University in 1985. He started his career at Info Now, a custom software development firm, where he worked for seven years. He began his employment as a junior developer and was promoted to senior analyst before he left in 1993 to begin his lifelong dream of owning his own business.
- Benjamin Swinburne
Benjamin Swinburne Senior Analyst Benjamin Swinburne is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering the Satellite & Cable TV and Satellite & Terrestrial Radio sectors. Benjamin joined Morgan Stanley in 1999 as part of the Media equity research team and was promoted to Vice President in 2003.
- Rakesh Sood
Rakesh Sood Mr. Sood joined Sprout as a General Partner in January, 2000 with over 18 years of Wall Street and technology industry experience. Prior to joining Sprout, Rakesh was a Vice President and senior analyst in the Internet/On-line Software and Services group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and headed the E-Commerce sector, with a special focus on B2B. Mr. Sood was ranked a leading E-Commerce/Internet analyst in the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Greenwich Surveys.
- Ronald Exler
Ronald Exler : Vice President and Research Fellow Ronald Exler is Vice President and Research Fellow for Robert Frances Group . Mr. Exler has been with RFG for the past seven years, working closely with clients advising them on software application development, information technology asset management, geographic information systems (GIS), and a variety of other areas.
- Stephen Salyer
Stephen Salyer joined Atlantic-Pacific Capital in September 2007. Previously, Mr. Salyer was a Vice President with Probitas Partners where he led coverage for the Southeastern portion of the United States. Before Probitas, Stephen was a senior analyst at Potomac Investment Services, a private-equity placement boutique in Washington, DC, where he helped raise approximately $1 billion.