Thomas Ronk is the founder and CEO of Buyins.net, Thomas Ronk has created a proprietary database and trading strategy based on short sale timing and sales data that was not accessible to anyone prior to January 2005. Mr. Ronk managed more than $150-million in equity accounts from 1993 until 1998. He has 27 years of trading experience and is the principal of Century Pacific Investments, a registered investment advisor in California.
Lawyer: Paul Davis
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Paul Davis has a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, proxy fights, corporate governance, corporate finance and business restructuring, and a broad range of securities and business law matters for both private and public issuers. Paul is the Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets & M&A practice group and leads and coordinates the practice’s efforts across Canada.
Academic: Joshua Mitts, Ph.D
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Joshua Mitts, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Joshua Mitts, who joined the faculty in 2017, uses advanced data science for his research on corporate and securities law. His primary focus is on information disclosure in capital markets, consumer financial protection, and related topics in law and finance. Mitts employs empirical methods, including statistical analysis and machine learning, for his research on short-selling, informed trading on cybersecurity breaches, information leakage and hedge-fund activism, insider trading on corporate disclosure, and information transmission in financial markets.
Lawyer: James “Wes” Christian
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James “Wes” Christian is a fourth generation Texan, who has handled complex litigation in at least eight different states and two countries. Most of these cases have been in State or Federal Courts; some have been complex arbitrations. He is licensed to practice in 11 Courts across the U.S. and everywhere in Texas and New York. His primary focus in the last 11 years has been suing Wall Street for fraud. He has also handled many disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, wrongful death, intellectual property, breach of fiduciary duty and serious personal injuries or wrongful death actions.
Academic: Peter J. Chepucavage, Esq
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Peter J. Chepucavage has 40 years of experience in both the public and private sectors of the securities industry. He has worked for the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as a private law firm and a major international investment bank. He is familiar with all aspects of broker-dealer and hedge fund regulation, including broker dealer operations and stock loans.
Filmmaker: Kristina Copeland
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Kristina Leigh Copeland is a founder, CEO and Chief Visionary Officer of h2o-420, a company offering HEMP-infused, alcohol free lifestyle beverages. Kristina is also the CEO & Founder of Black Night Films, formerly Brown Saddle Films, a documentary film and TV production company dedicated to exploring subjects with global impact.
Academic: Robert J. Shapiro
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Robert J. Shapiro (born 1953) is the cofounder and chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a United States private consultancy for economic and security-related issues that has built a reputation on a range of policy matters, including climate change, intellectual property, securities fraud, healthcare reform, demographics, the resilience of the electric grid to cyberattacks, and blockchain technologies.
Beyond Dr. Shapiro’s responsibilities and leadership at Sonecon, he is also currently a Senior Fellow of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a board member of the Medici Venture Fund, and a member of the advisory boards of Gilead Sciences and Cote Capital.
Media: Charles Gasparino
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Charles Gasparino is an American journalist, blogger, occasional radio host, and author. He frequently serves as a guest panelist on the Fox Business Network program segment The Cost Of Freedom and the stocks/business news program Cashin’ In.
Gasparino was born to an Italian-American family in the Bronx, Gasparino graduated with a B.A. from Pace University before earning his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Media: Gretchen Morgenson
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Gretchen C. Morgenson (born January 2, 1956) is an American, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist notable as longtime writer of the Market Watch column for the Sunday “Money & Business” section of the New York Times. In November, 2017, she moved from the Times to the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal investigations editor Michael Siconolfi announced that Morgenson was joining that paper’s investigative team as a senior special writer, working closely also with reporters in the money and investing group and the financial enterprise group.
Media: Gary Matsumoto
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Gary Matsumoto is Executive Producer, News and Programming for CGTN America. He is an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter/producer in business.
As a foreign correspondent for NBC News and Senior Correspondent for the Fox News Channel, he won numerous awards for his reports from more than 40 countries on five continents, including an Overseas Press Club of America Ben Grauer Award for best radio spot news.
Academic: Susanne Trimbath, PhD
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Susanne Trimbath, Ph.D. is CEO and Chief Economist of STP Advisory Services. Dr. Trimbath’s credits include appearances on national television and radio programs and the Emmy® Award nominated Bloomberg report Phantom Shares. Dr. Trimbath served as a Technical Advisor to the California Economic Strategy Panel and Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Dr. Trimbath was formerly Senior Research Economist at the Milken Institute and Senior Advisor on the Russian capital markets project for KPMG.
Media: Matt Taibbi
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Matthew C. Taibbi born March 2, 1970 is an American author and journalist. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports. He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone.
Taibbi has authored several books, including The Great Derangement (2009); Griftopia (2010); The Divide (2014); Insane Clown President (2017);[5] I Can’t Breathe (2017); and Hate Inc. (2019).
Lawyer: Michael J. Bowe
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Michael J. Bowe
Michael’s ground-breaking defense of short-selling attacks has restored billions of dollars in market capitalization to his clients, frustrated class action lawsuits that accompany those attacks, and instigated the investigation, indictment, and closure of companies that engaged in such illegal conduct.
He was the lawyer for FairFax who fought the naked short cabal and which the Black Edge book is based. He knows this crime type intimately.
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Lawyer: Alan M. Pollack
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Alan M. Pollack
Partner, Washaw Burnstein
Among multiple areas of interest:
Represented defrauded investors in naked-short selling and stock manipulation cases brought against major investment banks under RICO and the federal securities laws.
Media: Kadhim Shubber
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Kadhim Shubber is the Legal and Enforcement correspondent for the Financial Times (UK), based in Washington, D.C., from March 2018. He was previously a reported for FT Alphabille. He is a graduate of Imperial College London, with a Master of Science in Physics.
