I am currently CEO co-Founder, and Editor in Chief of Silicon Alley Media, Inc., a network of real-time business news and analysis sites. Our first site, Silicon Alley Insider, focuses on digital business and is one of the fastest growing business publications in the world. I am also a host on Yahoo!'s TechTicker and a guest columnist at Slate. Previously, I was president of Cherry Hill Research, a business analysis and consulting firm, and editor of Internet Outsider, an award-winning Internet business blog.
From 1994-2001, I was an investment banker and equity research analyst at Prudential Securities, Oppenheimer & Co., and Merrill Lynch & Co. From 1999-2001, I was ranked one of the top Internet and eCommerce analysts on Wall Street by Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates, and other third-party firms. From 1999-2001, I ran the global Internet research practice at Merrill, coordinating teams of analysts in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In 2000, our team became No. 1 in the industry, and I was the “most read” analyst on Wall Street.
After I left Wall Street, I was keelhauled by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who alleged that conflicts of interest had led a dozen firms and analysts, including me, to publish misleading research. Along with most parties to the complaint, I participated in the “global settlement” of the allegations, the details and consequences of which I have described here.
In recent years, I have written about the Internet and Wall Street for numerous publications, including Newsweek International, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes Online, The Guardian, Euromoney, and Business 2.0. I have also written a book, The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide To Intelligent Investing. I have a B.A. in History from Yale University.
