Plainfield, New Jersey, United States
More than 16 years of real-time, breaking financial news reporting and analysis. Specialties: Mergers & Acquisitions, arcane financial instruments, mining SEC filings.
If it's news to financial chiefs, it's news to us.
Wrote a sophisticated column taking a complex look at companies and their securities. Helped develop and launch two successful columns - Risky Business, covering volatile stocks and companies in a state of flux, and Pay Date, assessing corporate dividends and buybacks. Self-starting beat focused on unique, uncovered stories, sophisticated investing strategies and little-understood, market-moving nuances. Crunched numbers on many of the biggest stories in U.S. equity markets: i.e. financial crisis, mergers and acquisitions, troubles with arcane investments like auction-rate securities, mandatorily convertible notes and banks' trust preferred shares.
Helped design new wine-and-spirits compendium for a AAA four-diamond-award-winning restaurant. Responsible for inventory, selection and ordering for a cellar containing thousands of bottles of wine. Edited Grill Gazette, its quarterly newsletter for guests.
Went from bartender to GM of roughly $1-million-annual-gross-revenue pub in under two-year's time. Set all-time gross revenue records for six of seven days of the week.