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Robert Barbera, Ph.D.
 Dr. Robert J. Barbera is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at ITG, Investment Technology Group, New York. He is responsible for ITG’s global economic and financial market forecasts. Dr. Barbera has spent the last 26 years as a Wall Street economist, earning a wide institutional following. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and is regularly quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
In 2009, Dr. Barbera authored The Cost of Capitalism: Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future. The book identifies the root causes of the Great Crisis of 2008. It also identifies key policy prescriptions for economic recovery and offers commentary about the shape of capitalism in the decades to come.
Dr. Barbera currently is a Fellow in the Economics Department of The Johns Hopkins University. He has been teaching applied macroeconomics at Hopkins for the last five years.
Early in his career, Dr. Barbera served as a staff economist for U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas and as an economist for the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Barbera also lectured at M.I.T. from 1994-1996 and he was Co-Chairman of Capital Investment International, a New York based research boutique. Dr. Barbera earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.
John A. Mendelson
 John Mendelson is Senior Vice President, Market Analysis at Potomac Research Group. Before joining Potomac, he was Senior Vice President and head of market analysis for the Stanford Group Company. John previously served as vice president of market analysis with Schwab Capital Markets L.P. Prior to Schwab, he worked as Head of Market Analysis for both Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter.
John has been a frequent member of Institutional Investor magazines “All-American Research Team” beginning in 1977 and including the past three years. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University. John has been a guest speaker at many educational institutions, including Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, Princeton University and at numerous analyst societies around the country.
Jason DeSena Trennert
 Jason Trennert is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Strategist of Strategas Research Partners. He has been ranked consistently by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the top Strategists on Wall Street and has been named to SmartMoney magazine’s Power 30 list of the most influential people in the world of investing. He has earned a reputation as a keen market observer and for his regular, and often humorous, essays on investing.
Widely quoted in the domestic and foreign press, he is a regular guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He is the author of the popular investment book, New Markets, New Strategies, published in 2005 by McGraw Hill. Prior to founding Strategas, Mr. Trennert was the Chief Investment Strategist and a Senior Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group where he built and oversaw two of that Firm’s most popular research efforts, the Company Surveys and more recently, its Investment Strategy Group.
He has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BS in International Economics from Georgetown University.
Louise Yamada, CMT
 Louise Yamada is Managing Director of LYA, founded October 2005. Louise was Managing Director and Head of Technical Research for Smith Barney (Citigroup). Louise is a perennial leader in the Institutional Investor poll, and was the top-ranked market technician in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
At Smith Barney for 25 years, Louise authored a weekly flagship report “Market Interpretations.” Additionally, Louise penned several notable reports, including “Bull Market Extension? There is Historic Precedent” (1994) and “New Horizons for the 21st Century” (1996), both the subject of feature interviews in Barron’s on May 8, 1995 and September 9, 1996, as well as the special 1999 TRENDS report “Shifting Sands.” She is also the author of Market Magic, published by John Wiley & Sons, which was released in March 1998 and reviewed as “a monumental book, one that all serious and professional investors should read.”
Louise is a Chartered Market Technician and a member of the Market Technicians Association, the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts, the Financial Women’s Association, and the New York Society of Security Analysts. Louise appeared as a special guest on “Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street.” She appears frequently on Bloomberg, CNBC and in other media. Louise joined Smith Barney in 1980 after receiving a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.S. from Bank Street College of Education.
Edward Yardeni, Ph.D.
 Dr. Ed Yardeni is the President of Yardeni Research, Inc., a provider of independent global investment strategy research. In his publications, Dr. Yardeni explores trends in the economy and financial markets which are vital to a broad spectrum of investment decision makers.
Dr. Yardeni previously served as Chief Investment Strategist for Oak Associates, as Chief Investment Strategist and a Managing Director of Prudential Equity Group, as Chief Investment Strategist for Deutsche Bank, and Chief Economist for C.J. Lawrence, Prudential Securities, and E.F. Hutton. He taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also held positions at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Yardeni completed his doctoral dissertation under Professor James Tobin, a Nobel Laureate, at Yale University. Previously, he received a Masters degree in International Relations from Yale. He completed his undergraduate studies magna cum laude at Cornell University.
Dr. Yardeni has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Barron’s. He has appeared on numerous television and radio business and financial programs.
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