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Our Team

Senior Management:

  • Dan Bogler
  • Regina Schleiger
  • Daniel Sternoff
  • Brendan Fitzsimmons

Strategists:

  • Aubrey Hayward
  • Jacqui Cooper
  • Masaaki Shimizu
  • Matthew Chamberlin
  • Paul Silk
  • Tim Bathurst

Senior Analysts:

  • Susumu Awanohara   Japan/Korea/Taiwan
  • Matthew Benjamin   US Politics/US Legislation
  • Erin Blanton   LNG/Electric Utilities/Coal
  • Agata Dabrowska   Central and Eastern Europe
  • Mohammad A. Darwazah   Middle East and Africa
  • Christian Distasio   Swiss National Bank/European Central Bank/EU

Senior Analysts (cont.):

  • Yasser Elguindi   Macro Oil Strategy
  • Peter Hamilton   Bank of Canada/Fed/US Legislation
  • Earl Han   Korea/Taiwan/East Asia
  • Tim Jones   European Central Bank/UK and EU politics
  • Ignacio Labaqui   Latin America
  • Josh May   US Politics/Blogging
  • Kenichi Nagura   Bank of Japan/Ministry of Finance/Japan Politics
  • Luisa Palacios   Latin America
  • Nigel Rendell   EMEA
  • Jeffrey Silva   US Telecommunications/Media/Technology
  • Bernardo Wjuniski   Latin America
  • Logan Wright   China

Business Development:

  • Matthew Birch
  • Tugba Colpan
  • Kristin Coutu
  • Robert J. Hanney
  • Jeeway Kan
  • Mary Sheridan
         

Finance:

  • Jana Katcher

Dan Bogler

Dan Bogler, MGA's President and Editor, joined MGA from the Financial Times, where he spent the previous 15 years. He was the FT's Lex columnist based in London and then New York, and also worked as Asia News Editor in Hong Kong, Financial Editor of the FT Deutschland in Frankfurt and as head of the Lex Column before becoming Managing Editor in 2005. Mr. Bogler had a brief spell as speechwriter for the president and COO of Goldman Sachs in New York and early on worked for the Daily Telegraph in London. He holds a first class degree in modern history from Oxford University.

Regina Schleiger

Regina Schleiger heads the firm's G7 central banking analysis with primary focus on the US Federal Reserve. Ms. Schleiger joined MGA after more than a decade of financial and political coverage with various media organizations, including Knight-Ridder and Bridge News, where she held chief editing and reporting positions specializing in real-time international capital markets and policy news. Before transferring to New York in 1994, Ms. Schleiger covered economic policy and finance for leading media in her native Australia.

Daniel Sternoff

Daniel Sternoff heads MGA's emerging markets and energy research, with a primary research focus on oil markets, geopolitics and China. Prior to joining MGA, Mr. Sternoff covered Middle East politics as a Jerusalem-based correspondent with Reuters, and subsequently led coverage of global macroeconomics and international capital markets as director of Reuters' Foreign Exchange Group in New York. Mr. Sternoff contributes to policy roundtables with groups including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute, the Carnegie Center for Ethics in International Affairs and the Council on Foreign relations. Mr. Sternoff received a Fulbright Scholarship after completing his M.A. in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University.

Brendan Fitzsimmons

Brendan Fitzsimmons, is responsible for integrating global market intelligence with MGA's policy intelligence. He brings more than 10 years of strategy, intelligence, and policy analysis experience from trading, banking, consulting, and government service. Mr. Fitzsimmons began his career at Manufacturers Hanover in London working on North Sea energy and policy risk issues, subsequently consulting at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Petroleum Finance, and McKinsey & Company. Prior to joining MGA, Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Senior Market Specialist at Enron Global Markets, working with the Financial Trading Group covering global interest rates, FX, and commodities. Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow at Harvard University, pursued graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and graduated magna cum laude from Boston University.

Aubrey Hayward

Aubrey Hayward came to MGA with over 25 years of experience trading in global financial markets. Most recently, he traded personal capital within Deben Asset Management in Exchange Traded Derivatives. He served as Investment Manager for one of the wealthiest private business individuals within Inter IKEA Treasury SA Brussels for eight years, and spent 10 years in proprietary trading at Nordea Bank London. Earlier in his career, he traded money markets and foreign exchange at Bankgesellschaft Berlin London, and gold and foreign exchange at the Bank of England.

Jacqui Cooper

Jacqui Cooper brings over 20 years experience in global financial markets to MGA. Ms. Cooper was a senior salesperson at both UBS and Bank of America focusing on Global Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD). At Bank of America, she was promoted to become head of sales after beginning her career as a derivatives salesperson, providing advice to clients incorporating macro-economic trends, short-term market news and technical analysis. In 1998 she moved to UBS as a derivatives sales person and later worked with a team that helped to define their strategy for electronic trading.

Masaaki Shimizu

Masaaki Shimizu joined MGA after working for J.P. Morgan for nearly two decades. During his J.P. Morgan career, Mr. Shimizu worked in Tokyo, New York, and Brussels in the areas of foreign exchange advisory and sales, capital markets products, corporate finance, global custody, and credit risk analysis. Over the years he has worked with a broad array of clients including many of the leading Japanese institutional investors and a number of Asian central banks. Mr. Shimizu has an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Kansas and a B.A. in economics from Keio University in Tokyo.

Matthew Chamberlin

Matthew Chamberlin joined MGA's New York office as a strategist in 2011, bringing with him over 25 years of market experience in equity futures, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities. Mr. Chamberlin began his career at Shearson Lehman Brothers, then spent eight years climbing the ladder at Tudor Investment Corporation. In 1996 he moved to SAC Capital Management, where he served as a Senior Trader and Portfolio Manager. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University.

Paul Silk

Paul Silk, based in New Zealand, brings over 20 years of experience in global financial markets to MGA. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Silk was head of interest rate trading for National Australia Bank in London, which followed an extensive career in fixed income markets in Wellington, Sydney, and London including tenures at Bain and Co, Deutsche Bank as head of fixed interest in Australia and at Greenwich Natwest as head of German government bond trading.

Tim Bathurst

Tim Bathurst joined MGA in 2009 after graduating from Canterbury University. He holds a B.A. with first class Honors in Economics and a B. Com. with endorsements in Finance and Economics. Whilst Mr. Bathurst’s studies specialized in Microeconomic theory and Behavioral Economics, he has since developed a passion for Macroeconomics, in particular developments in Monetary Policy theory.

Susumu Awanohara   Japan/Korea/Taiwan

Susumu Awanohara is a well-known expert on US-Asia relations with three decades of experience as a journalist and financial researcher. Before joining MGA, Dr. Awanohara was the Washington correspondent for Nikkei Business Magazine and a special project consultant on global money markets for the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Awanohara began his career as an assistant editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review and went on to play a key role in successive postings as bureau chief in Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta and Washington. Dr. Awanohara has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and a B.A. in international relations from Tokyo University.

Matthew Benjamin   US Politics/US Legislation

Matthew Benjamin joined MGA after a 14-year career in financial and economic journalism. Mr. Benjamin most recently served as an economic correspondent for Bloomberg News in Washington, focused on the US and global economies, regulatory and macroeconomic policy, politics and trade. Prior to that he was chief economics correspondent for US News & World Report magazine. Mr. Benjamin holds a B.A. from Bucknell University and an M.A. from New York University.

Erin Blanton   LNG/Electric Utilities/Coal

Erin Blanton came to MGA after working for several years on Wall Street as a trader for NASDAQ. Ms. Blanton has a B.A. in economics from Cornell University and an M.A. in international energy policy from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Agata Dabrowska   Central and Eastern Europe

Agata Dabrowska joined MGA as an intern working her way into a full-time analyst position in 2007. Before coming to MGA, Ms. Dabrowska was a junior research analyst for JP Morgan's global equity team and a research associate for a New York fund of funds. Ms. Dabrowska holds an M.A. in international finance and policy from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs as well as an M.A. in international relations and sociology from Warsaw University.

Mohammad A. Darwazah   Middle East and Africa

Mohammad Darwazah joined MGA as an intern, working his way to a full-time position in 2011. Before joining MGA, Mohammad developed his experience through several positions, most notably with HSBC’s CEMEA equity research team in Cairo, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates’ Trade and Commercial Office in Washington DC. Mohammad holds a B.A in Economics and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.I.A in International Economic Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Christian Distasio   Swiss National Bank/European Central Bank/EU Politics

Christian Distasio joined MGA after a 16-year financial career in reporting, including more than a decade with Market News Service, based in Frankfurt. Mr. Distasio, an American who has resided in Germany since 1985, has focused on the European Central Bank and other regional monetary authorities, including the Swiss National Bank, as well as on macroeconomic developments and policy issues. Mr. Distasio holds a magna cum laude B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University and a M.A. in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Yasser Elguindi   Macro Oil Strategy

Yasser Elguindi serves as MGA's Macro Oil Strategist, having covered oil markets for the past 15 years. Yasser originally joined the firm in 2000, when he initiated oil policy coverage with a strong global emphasis on oil market fundamentals. He returned to MGA in 2011 after leaving in 2007 join the trading firm SIG, based in Bala Cynwyd, PA. While at SIG he developed proprietary strategies and provided regular commentary in support of the group’s global trading operations in commodity and currency markets. Yasser launched his career as a journalist at the respected Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) oil journal, where he developed his extensive network of industry and policy contacts. He holds an M.A. in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina.

Peter Hamilton   Bank of Canada/Fed/US Legislation

Peter Hamilton joined MGA in 1999, initially with a focus on UK and European developments, and then shifted to North American monetary policy, US congressional developments and the Washington policy process. Before MGA, he developed experience of high level monetary policy, international economic relations and financial crisis management as an official at the Bank of England. He was private secretary to the bank’s Executive Director of Financial Market Operations, and worked in the Policy Planning Group, which handled G7 and IMF relations during the Asia crisis. He has degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Earl Han   Korea/Taiwan/East Asia

Earl Han was an intern at MGA before moving to his current position. His previous experience includes working for the US Commercial Service, General Electric, ABC News, and national think tanks. Mr. Han received his B.S. in electrical engineering, B.A. in economics-political science, and M.A. in international security policy from Columbia University, as well as a master's degree in public affairs from Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Tim Jones   European Central Bank/UK and EU politics

Tim Jones joined MGA after a 12-year career in financial journalism, specializing in European monetary and business affairs. He helped found the Economist Group's groundbreaking weekly newspaper, European Voice, and became the journal's deputy editor. As deputy editor, he covered Brussels regulatory affairs, antitrust, trade policy, the creation of the Eurozone and EU enlargement. Mr. Jones has also written extensively for the business pages of British weeklies. Prior to this, he was a correspondent for Knight-Ridder Financial News in Brussels and London reporting on monetary policy and currency markets, and an equities reporter for Financial Times Business Information. He has a degree in history from the University of Sheffield.

Ignacio Labaqui   Latin America

Ignacio Labaqui is a Senior Analyst for Latin America at MGA based in Buenos Aires. Ignacio has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a B.A. in Political Science from the Universidad Catolica Argentina. He has published papers and book chapters on IMF Argentina relations, US-Latin American relations, regional trade integration in South America and Defense Policy in Latin America. He has worked for FLACSO-Argentina as researcher in the International Relations Department, and the Eurasia Group as analyst for Argentina. Ignacio is based in Buenos Aires and also teaches Latin American Politics and International Relations at the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations at the Universidad Catolica Argentina.

Josh May   US Politics/Blogging

Josh May came to MGA from Dresdner Bank, where he traded Emerging Market and Sovereign Eurobond Debt, spending three years in Frankfurt as a key member of the top-ranked DM-Eurobond desk. Mr. May has proprietary trading experience in German, French and Italian government bond markets, and has also worked in the US dollar Eurobond and money markets and trained as a commercial banking industry analyst. He has an undergraduate degree from Haverford College and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Kenichi Nagura   Bank of Japan/Ministry of Finance/Japan Politics

Kenichi Nagura is based out of MGA's Tokyo office. He joined the firm after working as a journalist and economist for more than a decade. Mr. Nagura wrote for the Kyodo News Agency in Tokyo covering monetary and fiscal policies, financial markets and Japan's foreign economic relations. After studying economics in the US for two years, Mr. Nagura became a senior economist at Norinchukin Research Institute in Tokyo, monitoring financial markets and macro- and micro-economic policies, as well as making economic forecasts. Mr. Nagura has a B.A. from Waseda University in Tokyo and an M.P.A from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Luisa Palacios   Latin America

Luisa Palacios is the Head of Latin America at MGA based in New York. She joined MGA from Barclays Capital where she was a macro strategist for the Andean Region at the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Desk. Before this, Ms. Palacios was a Senior Economist for the Japan Bank of International Cooperation, where she focused on Latin America energy and debt issues. Ms. Palacios has also worked for Societe Generale in both Paris and New York, where she started out following Middle East/North Africa and Turkey and, later, as the Latin American economist. Ms. Palacios has also served as a consultant for the World Bank in the office of the Chief Economist for Latin America. Ms. Palacios has a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She has published papers in international journals on economic policy and debt issues in Latin America and on regional energy policy issues. Ms. Palacios is an adjunct professor at the center for Energy Studies at IESA’s MBA School in Caracas, Venezuela.

Nigel Rendell   EMEA

Nigel Rendell joined MGA's London office in 2012 to cover Emerging Markets, including Russia, South Africa and Turkey. Nigel has spent the past 25 years working in the financial markets as an economist and strategist for HSBC, Credit Agricole/CLSA and the Royal Bank of Canada. Initially covering Western Europe in the 1980s, he has spent much of the past 20 years analyzing various emerging markets across the global and has lived in London, New York and Singapore. Mr. Rendell was educated in the UK, gaining a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Hull and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Southampton.

Jeffrey Silva   US Telecommunications/Media/Technology

Jeffrey Silva joined MGA in 2009 after a 26-year career as a leading telecom-high tech policy journalist and commentator. Mr. Silva served most recently as Washington Bureau Chief of RCR Wireless News, where he tracked telecom and high-tech policy matters pending before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the administration, courts, state governments and state regulatory agencies. Previously, Mr. Silva had stints with The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Springfield (Va.) Times, the National Captioning Institute and the Voice of America. He holds a B.S. cum laude in communications from the University of Tennessee.

Bernardo Wjuniski   Latin America

Bernardo Wjuniski is a Senior Analyst for Latin America at MGA. Based in Sao Paulo, Mr. Wjuniski joined MGA in 2011 after working as a Senior Macro Analyst in the economics consultancy Tendencias Consultoria Integrada, where he covered monetary policy, inflation and economic activity in Brazil. Mr Wjuniski has a Master degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he wrote a dissertation on the political economy of fiscal policy in Brazil, and a B.A degree in Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EESP). He is also a visiting professor in FGV-EESP, teaching undergraduate courses in Brazilian Economic History and Macroeconomics.

Logan Wright   China

Logan Wright, based out of MGA's Beijing office, came to MGA from Stone & McCarthy Research Associates in Beijing, where he was the firm's China analyst, focusing on China's influence on global fixed income and currency markets, Chinese exchange rate policy, the measurement and management of China's foreign assets, and Chinese macroeconomic statistics. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and has lived and worked in Beijing since 2001. He recently defended his Ph.D dissertation concerning the political factors shaping the reform of China's exchange rate regime, at George Washington University. He also holds an M.A. in security studies and a B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.

Matthew Birch

Matthew Birch joined Medley Global Advisors with a strong background in global financial markets. Prior to joining the firm, Mr Birch was a partner in a boutique investment bank in New Zealand. His career in finance spans almost three decades, and includes roles as Head of Fixed Income and Treasury for BNP Paribas in Australia, Head of Foreign Exchange and Currency Options for Credit Lyonnais, Asia, Treasurer of Societe Generale, Hong Kong and a number of other senior roles in financial markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Mr Birch has an MBA from the University of Otago and a 1st class honours degree in Psychology from Victoria University of Wellington.

Tugba Colpan

Tugba Colpan is MGA’s Managing Director of Business Development, and has more than ten years of experience in assisting sophisticated financial institutional clients with global risk issues. Before joining MGA, Ms. Colpan spent five years in institutional sales for Eurasia Group in New York, focusing on global emerging markets. Previously, she managed marketing relationships for two German media companies in London, assisting them in adapting to the UK marketplace. Ms. Colpan holds a M.Sci. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in International Relations from Ankara University.

Kristin Coutu

Kristin Coutu is Associate Director, Business Development. Ms. Coutu comes to MGA with five years of sales and account management experience from her time spent at Euromoney Institutional Investor in New York City and Kaztronix in Washington, DC. She has experience working with institutional clients, as well as procurement within Fortune 500 companies. Kristin currently volunteers with nonprofit organizations throughout the city and is a part of the Association for Women in Communication and International Association of Business Communicators. She is currently the Executive Director of Sponsorship and Recruitment for The Y Society. Ms. Coutu holds a Bachelor's degree in Interpersonal Studies from James Madison University with a focus in Public Relations.

Robert J. Hanney

Robert J. Hanney, Director of Sales, U.S, joined MGA with over 13 years experience working on Wall St. as a retail broker and securities principal. After initially working with various retail brokerages in the late 80s and early 90s, Mr. Hanney opened his own firm where he ran the retail brokerage side and was the firm's operating principal. By the late 90s, Mr. Hanney's entrepreneurial pursuits included leaving Wall St. to become the co-president of a manufacturing company in the construction products field. He returns to the financial field with an additional seven years of direct sales and operational experience added to his resume.

Jeeway Kan

Jeeway Kan is Associate Director, Business Development. Prior to MGA, Ms. Kan spent over two years in sales and account management for Euromoney Institutional Investor in New York City, focused on conference and subscription sales for institutional clients, including hedge funds, asset managers and public pensions. Previously, she successfully managed her own business in patent representation, and also worked pro bono for local non-profit organizations. Ms. Kan holds a bachelor's degree in economics with a minor in law and society from UC San Diego. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Mary Sheridan

Mary Sheridan is the Sales Administration Manager. Prior to MGA, Ms. Sheridan was an Account Manager for an exclusive magazine (Project Finance International) at Thomson Reuters. In addition she was the Circulation Manager for a small NYC newspaper chain (including The Villager and Downtown Express.) She has also worked as the Office Manager for a tech start-up and a recruiting firm. Ms. Sheridan holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University.

Jana Katcher

Jana Katcher joined Medley Global Advisors from the Financial Times where she most recently served as the Financial Controller for the US. During her 5 years there, Jana’s primary focus was on managing finances for US Advertising Revenue and the FT Global Conference business. Prior to that Jana held a variety of roles in the Treasury and Accounting Departments within Pearson Inc and the Pearson Controller’s Group. Jana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Maryland.