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MKM Research Team |
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Michael T. Darda, Chief Economist/Director of Research
Michael T. Darda joined MKM Partners in December 2003 as Chief Economist and Director of Research. Prior to joining MKM, Mr. Darda worked as Chief Economist and Director of International Research Polyconomics, Inc., a research firm located in New Jersey. Before joining Polyconomics, Inc., Mr. Darda worked in the Wisconsin State Legislature as a Press Secretary and Staff Economist for State Senator Margaret A. Farrow. He graduated with honors in economics, journalism, and public relations from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. |
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Erika Henik, Ph.D., Managing Director/Associate Director of Research
Erika Henik joined MKM Partners in December 2009. She was previously Head of the Americas Content Management Group at Goldman Sachs, and she held a similar role at Banc of America/Montgomery Securities. She also published as part of the equity strategy team at Thomas Weisel Partners. Dr. Henik is an Adjunct Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.A. (cum laude) from Columbia University. |
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Katie Stockton, Managing Director/Chief Market Technician
Katie Stockton joined MKM Partners in August 2004. Prior to joining MKM, Mrs. Stockton worked as a trader for a New York-based hedge fund and was a publishing analyst for Morgan Stanley’s technical strategy group. Mrs. Stockton’s career began in 1997 in San Francisco, where she worked as a technical analyst for Wit Soundview. Mrs. Stockton received her Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation in 2001, and graduated magna cum laude with a BSBA from the University of Richmond. She is a frequent guest on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, and is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and financial newswires. |
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Wendy D. Farina, Managing Director/MKM Intelligence Community
Wendy D. Farina joined MKM Partners in April 2008. Prior to joining MKM, Ms. Farina led all consumer research and trend analyses at Vardon Capital Management, a long/short equity hedge fund located in New York. Previously Ms. Farina was a successful business strategist and spent over 20 years consulting to Fortune 500 companies covering a wide range of industries. Prior to Vardon, Ms. Farina was a Principal with Kurt Salmon Associates, a global strategy boutique widely respected by C-level executives across the retail and consumer business landscape. Ms. Farina earned her MBA with honors from City University of New York/Baruch College and also received honors from NYU for her Post-Masters degree in Accounting. She received her B.S. in business from The University of Arizona. |
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Jim Strugger, Managing Director/Equity Derivative Strategist
Jim Strugger joined MKM Partners in August 2009. Prior to joining MKM, Mr. Strugger was the Equity Derivative Strategist at Societe Generale and a derivative salesperson at Susquehanna International Group. Previously Mr. Strugger spent 8 years at Morgan Stanley in economics, international equities, and domestic equity sales. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rutgers University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. |
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Keith M. Moore, Managing Director/Event Driven Research
Keith M. Moore heads up MKM Partners’ Event-Driven group. Prior to joining MKM Partners in December 2009, Keith served as Kellner DiLeo & Company's Co-Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager of the KDC Merger Arbitrage Fund and Director of Risk Management. He is the author of the nationally recognized book on arbitrage, Risk Arbitrage: An Investor’s Guide, and an author of the Mergers & Acquisitions chapter for Corporate Finance, published by the CFA Institute. Keith’s arbitrage career spans research, trading and portfolio management at Neuberger & Berman (1975-1983 and 1989-1996), DLJ (1983-1989) and Jupiter Capital (1997-2006). A former Assistant Professor of economics and finance at St. John's University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Rhode Island and New York University, Keith has earned numerous academic awards and honors. He holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island and an MBA from New York University. |
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Patrick McKeever, Managing Director-Sector Head/Senior Analyst
Patrick McKeever joined MKM in October 2007 and covers discount and off-price retailers. Prior to MKM, Mr. McKeever was with Avondale Partners, and prior to that, spent more than six years with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. His professional experience also includes research positions with Credit Suisse First Boston and ABN Amro. Mr. McKeever has been recognized in the Institutional Investor Poll and was awarded “Top Stock Picker in Multiline Retail for 2002” by Starmine. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston College and holds an M.A., with honors, from the University College, Dublin, Ireland. |
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Eric Handler, Managing Director-Sector Head/Senior Analyst
Eric Handler joined MKM Partners in March 2009 as an analyst covering the Media & Entertainment sector. Mr. Handler has more than 10 years of experience covering a broad range of industries within the Media & Entertainment universe including video games, theatrical exhibition, Hollywood movie studios, advertising related media and the Internet. Prior to MKM, Eric most recently spent more than four years covering small and mid-cap companies within the entertainment and video game industries at Barclays (formerly Lehman Brothers). His professional experience also includes research analyst positions at Goldman Sachs and SG Cowen. He holds an MBA from Tulane University and a BA in Political Science from Boston University.
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Chris Agnew, CFA, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Christopher Agnew joined MKM Partners in September 2009 as an analyst covering the Travel and Leisure sector. Previously, he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in New York for five years and in London for seven years prior to that. Mr. Agnew has covered a broad range of industries within the Consumer and Leisure sectors including Auto Rental most recently and Online Travel companies while in London. Christopher achieved recognition coming second in The Wall Street Journal’s Best-on-the-Street for stock picking in the Home Construction and Furnishings sector in 2009. He graduated from Bristol University in England, qualified as a Chartered Accountant whilst at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London and he is a CFA charterholder. |
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Stephen Anderson, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Stephen Anderson joined MKM Partners in September 2004 as an analyst covering the Restaurant sector. He was recognized as one of the industry’s top-ranked restaurant analysts in 2010, ranking #2 in the Financial Times/Starmine survey based on earnings accuracy and #3 in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” survey based on rate of return. Mr. Anderson previously worked as the Chief Market Strategist at Polyconomics, Inc., and as a Research Analyst in fixed-income market strategy at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. He holds an MBA from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Tim Boyd, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Tim Boyd joined MKM Partners in December 2009 as an analyst covering the Internet sector. Prior to MKM, Mr. Boyd covered Internet stocks for both Broadpoint.AmTech and Caris & Company. He began his career on Wall Street in 2001 as a derivatives trader for Bridgewater Associates. Mr. Boyd graduated magna cum laude from Connecticut College with degrees in Philosophy and The Classics. He was a three-time All-American in Men’s Lacrosse and was named Connecticut College Athlete of the Year for 2001. |
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Tero Kuittinen, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Tero Kuittinen joined MKM Partners in August 2009 as an analyst covering the Wireless Equipment sector. Over the past decade, Mr. Kuittinen has become one of the most widely recognized Finnish experts on the mobile handset industry, quoted regularly in the European and US media and giving presentations at telecom conferences from Los Angeles and Las Vegas to Dublin and Helsinki. He joins MKM from GC Research Ltd. where he was a senior analyst covering the Wireless industry. Mr. Kuittinen joined GC Research Ltd. from Avian Securities, where he was a Managing Director in charge of telecom research. Tero received a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry. |
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Pablo A. Perez-Fernandez, Ph.D., Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Dr. Perez-Fernandez joined MKM Partners in July 2009 as an analyst covering the Wireless Equipment sector. Most recently he was with Global Crown Capital where he was the Director of Research and the Head of Wireless and International Research. Prior to Global Crown Dr. Perez-Fernandez held senior research positions at ThinkEquity Partners and the Stanford Group. His investment experience is also rounded by his role as Head of Research and Risk Management at Swiss hedge funds Sagio Investments / G2 Group. Dr. Perez-Fernandez holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Yale University. |
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Linda Tsai, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Linda Tsai joined MKM Partners in May 2007 as an analyst covering the Retail Apparel sector. Prior to MKM, Ms. Tsai was an associate analyst at BMO Capital Markets, covering Specialty Retail, and, from 2000 to 2002, a research associate at Morgan Stanley on the Enterprise Software team. She has held additional positions at Morgan Stanley and ABN AMRO. Ms. Tsai graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Barnard College and earned an MBA in Finance from New York University. |
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Keith Denninger, Vice President, Event-Driven Strategies
Keith Denninger joined MKM Partners in January 2010 as a desk analyst for the event-driven team. He previously worked as a mergers & acquisitions analyst at Wall Street Access. Keith holds a B.S. in Finance from St. John’s University. |
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Edward Gangi, Research Associate
Ed Gangi joined MKM Partners in March 2010 as Research Associate in the Media & Entertainment Sector. He previously worked at Oppenheimer & Co. and the Bank of New York. Ed graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Finance and received an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Ed has completed Level 2 of the CFA Examination. |
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Jack Wheeler, Research Associate
Jack Wheeler joined MKM Partners in August 2009 as a Research Associate in the Consumer Sector. Jack previously was a Research Associate with Azimuth Capital Management, where he worked extensively analyzing both debt and equity securities. Jack graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with a B.S. in Business Economics and Finance. |
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