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Management

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Renny Ponvert

President & CEO, Director of Research

Renny has an extensive background in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and investment analysis complemented with senior operating roles. Prior to founding Management CV, Renny spent several years in the private equity industry where he identified and led the leveraged buy-out of Media General Financial Services in 2003 and subsequently served as the Company's CEO and later as the President of combined roll-up entity Hemscott, Inc. until its eventual sale in 2006. Prior to his private equity experience, Renny was a co-founder and CEO of DataJungle Software and served as the Managing Director of the Worldscope financial database before it was acquired by Thomson Financial in 2000. Early in his career, Renny worked at the Value Line Investment Survey whose influence is evident in Management CV's ranking system approach. Renny is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the advisory board of FirstRain, a news and information search company.



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Jeff Burnett

Senior Vice President

Jeff heads institutional sales and has 15 years experience in investment research. Prior to joining Management CV, Jeff had been Director of Research for GARP Research & Securities. Previously, Jeff was an investment analyst at CIBC Oppenheimer mainly covering the Software industry. In earlier associate positions at Oppenheimer, Smith Barney and Nat West Securities, Jeff covered the automotive and consumer products industries. Early in his career, Jeff spent several years in the consumer products industry in sales and marketing at the Gillette Company and market research at ACNielsen. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate Business School at Wake Forest University and the University of Richmond.



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Brandon Russell

VP of Sales

Brandon is VP of Sales and brings over 7 years experience in sell side Equity Research Sales. Before joining Management CV, he worked for Ipreo, LLC, a Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. LLP (KKR) portfolio company, helping Investment Banks, Broker Dealers, and Independent Research Providers work efficiently with the Institutional buy side. Brandon has a B.A from George Mason University and attended GMU’s law school for two years before changing course and earning a Master's Degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He’s a soccer fan and lives in Washington, D.C.



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John Delta

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

John has an extensive background in private equity and venture capital where he has held senior finance and operating roles in portfolio companies. Prior to joining Management CV, John spent several years in the private equity industry where he served as the COO of Media General Financial Services and later as the EVP of Global Operations for the combined roll-up entity Hemscott plc. After Hemscott, John served as the CFO of venture backed DoublePositive Marketing Group. Most recently, he was a co-founder and the CFO of private equity backed E-Zone Direct which was sold in February 2011. Early in his career, he served as the VP of Interactive Services at The NASDAQ Stock Market where he launched and ran the NASDAQ.com website. He also has extensive consulting experience having previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Deloitte & Touche. John is a graduate of The University of Virginia where he received both his undergraduate degree and MBA.



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Christine Song

VP of Client Service

Christine is VP of Client Services and brings 12 years experience as a buy side investor. Before joining Management CV, Christine worked at Daruma Asset Management, an investment firm based in New York City, where she helped manage a $1.5 billion focused portfolio of small/midcap stocks. She started her investment management career at Morgan Stanley Asset Management and has worked on the Small Cap Value team at Chartwell Investment Partners and the Equity Income Fund at Parnassus Investments. Christine holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where she previously earned a B.A. in Government.



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Ann Northrop, CFA

VP - Research Services

Ann has extensive experience as an investment analyst. She has covered the equities of diverse sectors, most recently restaurants. Previously, she covered wireless telecom equipment at UBS, and began her career in investment research following high-yield fixed income securities at Gruntal & Co (since acquired by Ryan Beck). She joined the industry from Security Pacific Merchant Bank (since acquired by Bank of America), where she was an analyst in its credit training program. Ann has a BA in Economics from the University of Southern California and later earned a CFA.



Advisory Board

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Logan Chandler

Managing Partner at LMC Advisors

Logan has extensive experience in designing and facilitating strategy offsites for senior executive teams and Boards in a diverse range of industries, including financial services, technology, food service, professional services and manufacturing. He has an encyclopedic mind for management theory and practice. His areas of expertise include strategy formulation and execution, strategic alignment and growth best practices. He is a co-author of "Off-Sites that Work" in the June 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Logan previously practiced corporate law for several years with Wilkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. He has a BA and a MBA from Penn and a JD from Northwestern.



Alison Mackey, PhD

Assistant Professor - California Polytechnic State University

Alison is an Assistant Professor of Management at CalPoly's Ofalea College of Business in San Luis Obispo, CA. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. Alison teaches and conducts research in the areas of strategic management, executive labor markets, and corporate social responsibility. She has had her research published in top academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review . Her research on CEOs and executive labor markets was recently recognized by the Academy of Management Business Policy and Strategy Division as one of the most promising academic contributions from young scholars. Alison's 2005 working paper "How Much Do CEOs Influence Firm Performance - Really?" was a formative part of Renny's idea for Management CV and provides a meaningful and quantifiable attribution to the CEO factor in public companies. Alison graduated with a BA in economics and an MBA from Brigham Young and then earned her PhD at The Ohio State University.



Gary Mitchell, J.D.

Portfolio Manager

Gary is an active equity portfolio manager and analyst for an established investment advisory firm in Baltimore, Maryland. As an investment practitioner, he spends a good deal of his time evaluating public-company management teams and interacting directly with CEOs and CFOs. Gary is a self-described "process person" and is helping MCV refine our rigorous due diligence methodology for evaluating and analyzing public company management teams. His legal background is particularly valuable in understanding the complexities and nuances of SEC filings and the regulatory environment for public companies. Prior to joining his current investment advisory firm in 2005, Gary practiced law for thirteen years. He has served as a corporate attorney for two S&P 500 companies in New Jersey (Lucent Technologies and then C.R. Bard) with a particular focus on corporate, securities and regulatory law, as well as mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He previously practiced at the law firm Sidley & Austin (now Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood) in New York. Gary received an A.B. from Harvard College in Economics and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.



David Hill, CFA


David Hill is a former Senior Vice President of Research Content at FactSet Research Systems Inc (NYSE: FDS) and has over 25 years of business and product development experience in the financial services sector. During his tenure, FactSet grew from a company of less than 15 people to a publicly traded corporation with over $600 million in annual revenues and thousands of employees. While at FactSet, Mr. Hill led strategy and development for various new end user applications and content sets, including industry leading earnings estimate/research services and Marquee News/Quote applications. Each of these developments were successful in generating new revenue streams, gaining new market share and extending the functionality of the FactSet workstation for new user groups.

Mr. Hill is a former board member of the Investorside Research Organization which focused of serving the business needs of the independent research firm. He has also served on the operating committee of RIXML.org, an industry trade organization dedicated to the production, distribution, and consumption of sell side research.


Mr. Hill started his career as an equity analyst at Founders Asset Management. He is a graduate of University of Denver in the field of operations management and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr. Hill serves on several company Advisory Boards as well as remains active in local charity endeavors that focus on food delivery to the hungry (www.communityplates.org). He currently lives with his wife and children in New Canaan CT.






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