LEON H. CHARNEY

Leon H. Charney was born to an East European immigrant family, worked his way through Yeshiva University and Brooklyn Law School, and was admitted to the Bar in 1965.  

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Standard & Poor

As chief investment strategist, Sam serves as analyst, publisher and communicator of S&P’s outlooks for the economy, market, sectors and stocks. 

Kay Koplovitz
Chairman, Broadway Television Network
Founder, USA Networks

 Kay Koplovitz is a successful entrepreneur and seasoned venture capitalist.  She is currently Chairman of Broadway Television Network.  She is the author of an upcoming book;  Bold Women, Big Ideas:  Learning

 Seymour Jones

Professor, NYU Stern School of Business and Retired Senior Partner, Coopers & Lybrand

Seymour Jones, CPA, was a Senior Partner in the New York Office of Coopers & Lybrand on extension to September 30, 1995 to complete his role as the firm’s Partner-in-Charge of its Risk Management Program.

Peter Canelo

    Peter Canelo is Managing Director in the US Strategy Group and a member of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Policy Committe.

JOHN CLIFTON BOGLE

            John C. Bogle, 72, is Founder of the Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He founded Vanguard in 1974 

Joseph V. Battipaglia

Chief Investment Strategist – Gruntal & Co., LLC
Conducts strategic market and economic analysis in support of the firm’s retail network and growing institutional presence. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in economics from Boston College and earned his MBA at the Wharton Graduate  School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. 

October 18, 2001

Jack Harziuk
Vice President & Senior Economist
Goldman Sachs, & Co.

Jack Harziuk, Vice President and Senior Economist Goldman Sachs, based in the New York Office He advises clients on the US economic and financial market outlook and contributes to the US economic research publications

June 27, 2001

Ms. Maria Bartiromo
Anchor, CNBC

With the March 2000 debut of CNBC's "Market Week with Maria Bartiromo" (7:30 to 8:30 p.m. ET Fridays), Maria Bartiromo is continuing to set the standard for business news programming around the world. The show, co-produced by Bartiromo, broadcasts live from the floor of The New York Stock Exchange and is seen on CNBC, CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe. Bartiromo also serves as a daily anchor for the first hour of CNBC's "Street Signs" (2-3 p.m.) and the second hour of "Market Wrap" (5-6 p.m.).

May 23, 2001

Mr. John Schline
Vice President and Corporate Director of Business Affairs - Penguin Putnam, Inc.

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April 17, 2001

Ms. Mary C. Farrell, managing director and member of the Investment Policy Committee for PaineWebber Incorporated.

Biographical Summary
Mary C. Farrell is a managing director and member of the Investment Policy Committee for PaineWebber Incorporated.

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March 7, 2001

Mr. Arthur R. Hogan, Chief Market Analyst at Jefferies & Company

Arthur R. Hogan III is Chief Market Analyst at Jefferies & Company, an institutional brokerage firm focusing on equity, high yield convertible and international securities. He is also Manager of the Boston office at Jefferies where he heads the equity trading effort.

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Thursday, January 25, 2001

Mr. Leon H. Charney, moderator of a public broadcasting program on WNYE TV, Channel 25, which is distributed nationally. "The Leon Charney Report"

Mr. Charney has been practicing law since 1965 starting with sports and entertainment law, later entering the political arena. During his political experience, Mr. Charney worked with such political spearheaders such as Senator Vance Hanke (Indiana), Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, President Jimmy Carter, Governor Mario Cuomo (NYS), Ezer Weizman, Minster of Science & Technology, and Governor George Pataki (NYS). His most recent appointment was in 1999 by Mayor Rudolf Guilliani, as Chairman of the NY Jerusalem Advisory Committee.

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Thursday December 7, 2000

Mr. Tim Zagat, Co-founder & Co-chairman of Zagat Survey & Zagat.com
4 Columbus Circle New York, New York 10019
Tel. 212-977-6000 Fax 212-977-8496
zagat@zagatsurvey.com
www.zagat.com

Tim Zagat is the co-founder and co-chair of Zagat Survey, the best-selling guides to restaurants, hotels, resorts and spas in 45 cities worldwide, and zagat.com, the Web's premiere provider of survey-based dining, lodging and leisure information. Mr. Zagat, in conjunction with his wife, Nina, is responsible for creating and planning the overall direction of the company and supervises the day-to-day operations of the business.

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Wednesday October 18 , 2000

Mr. Larry Wachtel, Senior Vice President and Market Analyst, Prudential Securities Incorporated

Mr. Wachtel, who has been with Prudential Securities for over thirty years, manages the Firm's private newswire connected to its more than 300 office throughout the world. He prepares market commentary, has a daily radio spot in WINS-NY radio and lectures extensively throughout the United States. Mr. Wachtel, also known as the "Voice of Wall Street" is widely quoted regarding investment trends in major national publications, including "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "Investor's Business Daily" and "The Christian Science Monitor".Ê He is often seen on television at critical junctures and frequently provides market commentary on CNBC, a nationally televised business news channel.

Mr. Wachtel graduated from Long Island University, School of of Journalism.

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Tuesday June 20, 2000

Mr. John Catsimatidis, Chairman & CEO of the Red Apple Group Inc.

John Catsimatidis is a renowned NYC entrepreneur & a former fellow NYU student.Ê He is Chairman & CEO of the Red Apple Group Inc., a $ Two Billion + Company with over 6,000 employees. They own over 50 Gristides & Sloan supermarkets, as well the "Hellenic Times" newspaper, Capital Air & Red Apple Aviation, and an oil refining business.

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March 30, 2000

Mr. Steven P. Delco, Senior Biotech Analyst, Vice President Miller Tabak & Co., LLC

Ranked Number One in the "Carson Group Top Ten Biotech Analysts"

Prior to joining Miller Tabak & Co., LLC, Steven P. Delco was the President of Delco Scientific Resources, Inc., a company he founded in 1982 to provide market research and analysis of the biotechnology, medical and pharmaceutical industries.

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January 27, 2000

Mr. Richard Zandi, Analyst, Salomon Smith Barney

Richard Zandi is an Analyst in Salomon Smith Barney's U.S. Equity Research Department. He covers the Electronic Commerce Industry with a focus on the Internet Financial Services stocks.Ê Prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney, Mr. Zandi was the CEO and founder of Hudson River Works, Inc. and its predecessor firm, Fintech Software Corporation. Its personal productivity and entertainment software are licensed to third-party publishers and sold worldwide. Prior to Hudson River, Mr. Zandi was a Vice President in Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Banking Division. Mr. Zandi received an MBA from Wharton and an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

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December 9, 1999

Mr. Ralph J. Acampora, CMT Prudential Securities Incorporated

Ralph J. Acampora, CMT is Managing Director of Technical Research at Prudential Securities Incorporated. He has served as Prudential Securities' Director of Technical Analysis since July 1990. From 1980-1990, Mr. Acampora was Director of Technical Research at Kidder Peabody & Co. He is a widely recognized industry leader in the field of Technical Market Analysis who has been voted #2 Technician on the "Institutional Investor" poll for the last four years.

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Mr. Walter F. Loeb, Loeb Associates

Walter F. Loeb retired from a 16-year career as senior retail analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co., and now heads a private retail consulting firm in New York, Loeb Associates Inc.Ê In addition, Mr. Loeb continues to offer his global insights into the retail industry as publisher of the Loeb Retail Letter, a monthly analysis of the industry.

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January 26, 1999

Ms. Louise Yamada,CMT Salomon Smith Barney

Director in research and Senior Technical Analyst for Salomon Smith Barney; Louise Yamada has a BA from Vassar College and received an MS from Bank Street College of Education. She joined Salomon Smith Barney in 1980, is a Chartered Market Technician, and was cited by the Institutional Investor Poll for Honorable Mentions in 1996, 1997 and 1998 as well as for best up and coming analyst. In 1995, she was cited in II Poll for research contribution to Alan R. Shaw's winning No. technical team.

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Mr. Robert Stovall, C.F.A. President, Stovall/Twenty-First Advisers, Inc.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Robert Stovall began his career on Wall Street as a messenger for Reynolds & Company during summer vacation from Seton Hall Prep. With time off for overseas service with the U.S. Army in Italy during World War II, and the completion of his formal education, he has worked in or around that financial community ever since.

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Mr. Sam Stovall, Senior Investment Strategist, Standard & Poor's

Sam Stovall joined Standard & Poor's (S&P) in April 1989.Ê Today, he is the senior investment strategist.Ê He has responsibility for The Monthly Investment Review, through which S&P's fifty equity analysts offer fundamental and investment analyses on the 115 industries within the S&P 1500 Super Composite Index, as well as buy, hold, and sell recommendations on the more than 1,000 stocks in the S&P Stock Appreciation Ranking System (STARS).Ê He is a member of the S&P Investment Policy Committee, where he focuses on sector allocation strategies and industry recommendations.

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October 27, 1998

Mr. Martin S. Fridson, CFA Managing Director, Merrill Lynch & Co.

Mr. Fridson is the Director of Global High Yield Strategy, and member of the Institutional Investor All-American research team.Ê The New York Times called Mr. Fridson "one of Wall Street' most thoughtful and perceptive analysts."Ê In 1997 Worth Magazine included Fridson's Investment Illusions among the 22 books published since 1841 constituting its investor's core library.Ê Economist Henry Kaufman said of Fridson's It Was a Very Good Year(1998),Ê "There are important lessons in this book for all investors."

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December 17, 1998

Mr. Haley Garrison, Curator of Scripophily

Mr. Garrison is an expert on the significant stocks and bonds of history.Ê He has been recognized by the White House, the House of Lords, the Smithsonian Institution and many business and historical societies world-wide.Ê He has been featured in Forbes, Business Week, Barrons, USA Today, US News and World Report, CNBC and many other journals and newspapers here and abroad.

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Mr. Jerry A. DeMartino, CEO & Founder, Competitive Telecommunications Group

The Competitive Telecoms Group (CTG) was founded in 1999 by Jerry DeMartino, former senior Vice President of Global Strategy and Development for MCI WorldCom.Ê After more than 26 years as aÊ Senior Executive in MCI WorldCom, holding senior positions in strategy, development, sales, marketing and international, Mr. Demartino saw the unique opportunity to capitalize on the MCI WorldCom acquisition by creating CTG.Ê CTG is an organization of senior telecom executives from some of the most competitive telecommunications companies in the world and a leading provider of support services to the worldwide carrier industry.

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October 27, 1999

Mr. A. Marshall Acuff, Jr. Chief Equity Strategist, Salomon Smith Barney

Mr. Acuff, Jr. is a senior vice president and manageing director of Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. responsible for equity strategy as a member of the firm's Investment Policy Coordinating Committee.Ê Mr. Acuff joined Salomon Smith Barney in 1966. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary (1962) of which he is currently a member of the Board of Visitors and the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration(1966).Ê He has also participated in advanced investment seminars at Harvard and Princeton.Ê Mr. Acuff is a thirteen time member of the Institutional Investor magazine's All American Team.Ê He is frequently quoted by the media.Ê He writes a monthly column for the Japan Economic Journal.

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February 29, 2000

Mr. Michael T. Cohen, President & Chief Executive Officer, GVA Williams

Michael T. Cohen joinedÊ Williams in 1981 and currently serves on the firm's management committee and as its President and Chief Executive Officer.Ê His primary responsibilities are administering the firm's marketing efforts and representing national tenants in the acquisition of office space nationwide.Ê He is the third generation of his family to be President of the firm.

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Wednesday May 10, 2000

Ms. Barbara Corcoran, Chairman and Founder of the Corcoran Group

Barbara Corcoran is the Chairman and Founder of the Corcoran Group, Manhattan's largest privately owned real estate firm.Ê With over 25 years in the real estate business, Corcoran has earned the title "Queen of New York Real Estate".

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