Welcome to the Green Light

Welcome to The Green Light, my blog dedicated to my finance research, recommendations and strategies. I am committed to transparency, for better or for worse, to put my financial positions up for public scrutiny. Time will be my judge and jury.

About Me
I received an MBA in finance from the F.W. Olin School of Management at Babson College, graduating with a 3.7 GPA. During my second and final year, I was honored to be one of 17 students, undergraduate and graduate, selected by the Trustees to manage a portion of the Babson endowment, in a highly selective program called the Babson College Fund (BCF). As a student portfolio manager and consumer sector analyst, I helped conduct fundamental valuations of public equities, and prepare "buy side" research reports for those companies. That research was used to take long or short positions in some of the more compelling stocks. During my calender year in the Babson College Fund, we handily beat the S&P 500.

During that same year, I was one of five students selected to represent Babson College in the CFA Institute's New England Investment Research Challenge (NEIRC). Including Babson, seven top New England business schools competed by analyzing Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT). The first deliverable was a research report, from which three finalists were selected to give an oral presentation to a panel of industry professionals. Babson advanced to this stage with Boston College and MIT Sloan. Babson won the competition, and advanced to the North American Investment Research Challenge. While we didn't win, we were humbled by some excellent competitors and on May 2, 2008, we helped close the NASDAQ.

I am actively pursuing a CFA Charter because it requires a level of professionalism, integrity, and deep financial knowledge.

My background is as a mechanical engineer, having worked for AMETEK Aerospace & Defense, designing a variety of sensors for the hostile environment inside jet engines. I graduated in 2001 from Boston University, and later received a Masters degree in microelectronic and nanoelectronic manufacturing from the same school.