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Thomas G. Messina, CEO
MKM Partners LLC was founded in 2001 by Thomas G. Messina to provide a service and detail-oriented trading and research organization focused on becoming an extension of their clients’ trading and research efforts. Prior to founding MKM, Mr. Messina was the Executive Vice President of Institutional Sales and Trading at A.B. Watley. He founded the Institutional Trading Operation at A.B. Watley in 1995. From 1988 through 1995, Mr. Messina gained experience in Institutional Sales and Trading at firms including Cantor Fitzgerald, Weeden & Co., LP and Mabon Securities. Mr. Messina uses his almost 20 years of experience to service the clients of MKM as the Head of Sales and Trading. |
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Steven L. Messina, President
Steven L. Messina co-founded MKM Partners in 2001. Mr. Messina is the President of MKM and is known for his ability to deliver quality service and value-added trading solutions. Prior to founding MKM, Mr. Messina was a Senior Vice President of Equity Sales and Trading at A.B. Watley from 1996 to 2002. He was a member of the Institutional Management Committee and directed all equity sales strategy. Previously, Mr. Messina served as Vice President and Sales Manager of Fidelity Insight Management. From 1987 to 1992, he was a Vice President and Sales Manager at Fidelity Investments. |
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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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Katie Townshend Stockton, Chief Market Technician
Katie Townshend Stockton joined MKM Partners in August 2004 as Chief Market Technician. Prior to joining MKM, Mrs. Stockton worked as a trader for New York-based hedge fund Ulysses Management and was a publishing analyst for Morgan Stanley’s technical strategy group. From 1997 to 2001 she worked as a technical analyst for Wit Soundview in San Francisco. Mrs. Stockton received her Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation in 2001, and graduated magna cum laude with a BSBA from the University of Richmond. |
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Richard Sherman, Managing Director of Equity Research
Richard Sherman is responsible for building and managing our equity research team. As an analyst, he covers infrastructure management and SOA-related firms. Before joining MKM, Mr. Sherman managed the institutional equity sales organization and was a corporate officer at Janney Montgomery Scott. Previously, he was a research analyst at Janney and Pennsylvania Merchant Group. Prior to his analyst career, he worked in the cable and satellite communications industries and served as a Naval Intelligence officer. Mr. Sherman holds an MBA from Georgetown University, where he was a Master Scholar, and a BA in Economics and International Relations from Lehigh University. |
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Wendy D. Farina, Chief Strategist, Equity Intelligence
Wendy D. Farina joined MKM Partners in April 2008 as Chief Strategist, Equity Intelligence. 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. Before making the transition to the financial world, Ms. Farina was a successful business strategist and spent over 20 years consulting to Fortune 500 companies in industries as wide ranging as retail, apparel, food and beverage, restaurants, consumer electronics, airlines, hotels, real estate, technology, telecommunications, etc. Most recently, Ms. Farina was a Principal with Kurt Salmon Associates, a global strategy boutique widely respected by C-level executives across the entire retail and consumer business landscape. Ms. Farina graduated with honors from City University of New York/Baruch College where she earned her MBA and from New York University with a Post Masters degree in Accounting. She received her B.S. in business from The University of Arizona. |
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| Research Analysts |
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Patrick McKeever, Analyst
Patrick McKeever joined MKM in October 2007 and covers discount and off-price retailers. He was most recently 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 has made numerous appearances on CNBC, Fox Business TV, Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio and has been widely quoted in the financial press. 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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Stephen Anderson, Analyst
Stephen Anderson is an analyst covering the Restaurant sector for MKM. Prior to joining MKM in September 2004, Mr. Anderson worked as the Chief Market Strategist at Polyconomics, a renowned classical research firm. He began his career as a Research Analyst in fixed-income market strategy at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Mr. Anderson earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in Economics and Japanese studies and he also graduated with honors from the Stern School of Business MBA program at NYU. |
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Linda Tsai, 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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Brad Mook, CFA, Analyst
Brad Mook joined MKM Partners in April 2008 as an analyst covering software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Mr. Mook most recently covered SaaS as Director of Research at Boenning & Scattergood, earning distinction as the #2 analyst in the software sector in the Wall Street Journal’s 2007 “Best on the Street” survey. His prior experience includes covering small-cap software as Director of Research at Emerging Growth Equities and as an analyst at Investec/PMG, Schroder, NatWest and Value Line. Mr. Mook is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Philadelphia. He graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Political Economy. |
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