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Michael T. Darda, Chief Economist/Chief Market Strategist
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/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. Her career began in 1997 in San Francisco, where she worked as a technical analyst for Wit SoundView and McCullough, Andrews & Cappiello. Mrs. Stockton received her Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation in 2001, and she is on the Board of the Market Technicians Association. She is a frequent guest on CNBC and Bloomberg Television and is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and financial newswires. Mrs. Stockton graduated magna cum laude with a BSBA from the University of Richmond. |
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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, Ph.D., CFA, 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, Managing 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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Jon LeCroy, M.D., Managing Director/Senior Analyst
Jon LeCroy joined MKM Partners in June 2011 as an analyst covering the Biotechnology/Specialty Pharmaceuticals sector. Dr. LeCroy previously covered the same sector at Hapoalim Securities USA, Natixis Bleichroeder and Goldman Sachs. He ranked #5 in this year’s Wall Street Journal Best on the Street poll in Biotechnology. Dr. LeCroy holds an MBA from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management, an M.D. from University of South Florida College of Medicine and a B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University.
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Michael Genovese, Managing Director/Senior Analyst
Michael Genovese joined MKM Partners in November 2010 as an analyst covering the Communications Equipment sector. Mr. Genovese has more than 12 years’ experience on both the buy and sell sides, as well as within industry. He comes to MKM most recently from Soleil Securities and worked previously at Citigroup and AllianceBernstein. He also spent several years at Ciena Corporation. Mr. Genovese holds an M.A. from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. |
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Daniel Berenbaum, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Daniel Berenbaum joined MKM Partners in May 2011 as an analyst covering the semiconductor sector. Mr. Berenbaum has followed the semiconductor sector since 2006, most recently at Auriga USA, where he also served as the Director of Research. His prior experience includes seven years in a variety of technical and management roles at Applied Materials, as well as five years as a nuclear power trained surface line officer in the United States Navy. Mr. Berenbaum has a B.S. in History from the United States Naval Academy, has published several technical papers and is the holder of a U.S. patent. |
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Megan McGrath, CFA, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Megan McGrath joined MKM Partners in April 2011 as an analyst covering the Homebuilding and Building Products sectors. Mrs. McGrath spent almost 10 years at Barclays Capital (Lehman Brothers), most recently as a Senior Analyst and Associate Director in the Homebuilding and Building Products sector. Prior to that, she served as a Senior Analyst covering the Media Services sector and as a Research Associate covering the Imaging Technology sector. Mrs. McGrath has an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics and French from Washington & Lee University. |
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Joshua Pokrzywinski, Executive Director/Senior Analyst
Joshua Pokrzywinski joined MKM Partners in August 2010 as an analyst covering the Industrials sector. Mr. Pokrzywinski most recently was a Research Associate in the industrials group at KeyBanc Capital Markets, where his coverage universe included the climate control, industrial automation and process industry sectors. Prior to that, he was a Credit Analyst at LaSalle Bank – ABN AMRO. Mr. Pokrzywinski has a B.S. in Business Economics from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. |
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Keith Denninger, Executive Director, 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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Matthew Bielawski, Research Associate
Matt Bielawski joined MKM Partners in June 2011 as a Research Associate in the Communications Equipment and Mobile Technologies sectors. His professional experience includes product design engineering and product engineering at Motorola and a variety of stored energy companies. Matt has completed Level 1 of the CFA Examination and holds an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Iowa. |
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William Harrison, Research Associate
Will Harrison joined MKM Partners in September 2011 as a Research Associate in the Media & Entertainment sector. Mr. Harrison worked at Consolidated Edison over 2006-2009 and served in the U.S. Army from 2003 to 2006 at Ft. Benning, Georgia, achieving the rank of Captain. He holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Ada Menaker, Research Associate
Ada Menaker joined MKM Partners in May 2011 as a Research Associate in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications sector. Ms. Menaker previously worked as a Research Associate at Auriga USA and as a Senior Financial Analyst in Intel’s Technology Development Group. She holds an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Russian Studies from Oberlin College. |
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Ben Osborn, Research Associate
Ben Osborn joined MKM Partners in December 2011 as a Research Associate in the Discount & Off-Price Retail sector. Mr. Osborn previously worked as an investment banking analyst at Leonard Capital Markets. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan. |
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Brendan Shea, Research Associate
Brendan Shea joined MKM Partners in April 2011 as a Research Associate in the Travel & Leisure sector. Mr. Shea previously was an analyst at BlackRock Financial Management and a fund manager at Nittany Lion Fund LLC. He graduated from the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University – University Park with a B.S. in Finance. |
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Kristy Sowin, Research Associate
Kristy Sowin joined MKM Partners in May 2011 as a Research Associate for MKM’s Macro Strategy team. Ms. Sowin holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut. |
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