Brian Sozzi Email & Phone Number

New York, Us

Member of the editorial leadership team, reporting directly to the Head of Content for Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance's first-ever Executive Editor.Co-creator and lead on the annual fall Yahoo Finance 'Invest' conference. 'Invest' is an in-person, all day live event that also runs on Yahoo Finance's TV network. In my capacity, I lead the event narrative, bookings, text story distribution among other intricacies. 'Invest' brings together top CEOs and celebrities for personal chats in front of investors worldwide. Lead all content creation, booking and editorial for Yahoo Finance's tentpole events, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, Milken, Dreamforce and numerous investment banking conferences. Host of the 'Opening Bid' podcast that airs on Yahoo Finance and podcast platforms Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pandora and iHeartMedia.Lead interviewer of all global newsmakers. Top TV interviews conducted in this role: President Joe Biden, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Ford CEO Jim Farley, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates, LA Clippers Owner Steve Ballmer, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Blackstone Founder Steve Schwarzman, Pivotal Ventures Melinda French Gates.Led the content launch of Yahoo Finance's 'Lead This Way' leadership show, and remain a frequent contributor. Top interviews include Melinda French Gates, GM CEO Mary Barra, LA Clippers Owner Steve Ballmer.Work collaboratively with the head of video, news and distribution to ensure high quality journalism is released daily. Strategic planner and new idea developer in concert with Head of Content.Newsroom mentor and trusted colleague.Have generated close to 600 million text views alone in my time at Yahoo Finance.

New York, Us

Yahoo Finance's first-ever editor-at-large.Booked and conducted feature interviews with top Fortune 500 executives and other influencers across Yahoo Finance's industry leading platform: live programming, online web pieces, taped interviews and conferences. Top interviews included Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Grammy-award winning artist Ciara, NBA great Dwayne Wade, NFL Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, bond king Jeffrey Gundlach, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Target CEO Brian Cornell, Melinda French Gates, David Rubenstein, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. Authored daily and feature stories that ranged from key trend stories to insights gleaned from conversations with top executives and influencers across the sports, media, and business communities. Wrote up to 4 stories a day.Generated more than 400 million page views while serving in this position. Anchored Yahoo Finance's flagship two-hour morning show, which airs on Yahoo Finance, the Yahoo Finance app, DirecTV, Freevee, Samsung TV, YouTube, Roku, Pluto TV and Apple TV. Worked closely with executive producers, conference organizers and content leadership team to hatch new ideas to be developed across Yahoo Finance and Yahoo properties. Top projects included organizing, booking and hosting Yahoo Finance's first-ever 'Infrastructure Week', which included interviews with 30 top executives changing the country's infrastructure. Another project included planning anf live on the ground hosting of Yahoo Finance's coverage of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. Co-authored Yahoo Finance's flagship 'Morning Brief' daily newsletter which reaches more than 2 million inboxes each day.

Phoenix, Az, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Led editorial direction across TheStreet's -- a publicly traded financial media company -- three publications: TheStreet; The Deal; RealMoney spanning bureaus in New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco, and the United Kingdom. Under my leadership, TheStreet increased content views by more than 40% to 50 million monthly views and subscriptions to premium services by more than 25%. TheStreet also won a 2017 SABEW award for best financial commentary. P&L responsibility for multi-million $$$ budget of journalists.Coordinated coverage across various multimedia platforms, including video, graphic design, podcasts, and social media to maximize reader experiences and drive subscription and advertising revenues. This coordination helped to drive numerous new advertisers to TheStreet's platform. Drove editorial direction for a newsroom of more than 100 journalists globally and helped bring in top guests for TheStreet's numerous investor focused conferences. Interviewed Fortune 500 CEOs, other top executives and leading influencers in the world of business for written and video platforms. Some interviews included Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Boeing CEO Dennis Muillenberg and Ford CEO Mark Fields.Created and authored the 'Morning Jolt' daily newsletter and hosted the 'Morning Jolt' webshow. The 'Morning Jolt' newsletter amassed 25,000 subscribers within its first three months of launch. Helped incubate new ideas across TheStreet's digital publications, including new newsletters and video content.Member of TheStreet Inc.'s executive management team, reporting to the CEO. Duties included budget planning, helping to drive strategic direction for the company, presentations to fellow executive team members, assisting in preparation for quarterly earnings calls with investors, and talent development efforts. As a member of the executive team, played a key role in the successful sale of TheStreet's businesses for a total enterprise value of more than $160 million.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed/hosted on-air and written special features focusing on behind the scenes profiles of Fortune 500 businesses and the executives at the helm.Lead correspondent for TheStreet's consumer coverage. Authored the daily "Daily Dose" column that discussed market-moving economic events, and potential long-term economic outcomes, and how to position one’s financial portfolio accordingly.Authored the "Weekend Watcher" Saturday column that addressed such education-themed topics as investment strategies, mechanisms driving the market and common investor misconceptions.

Authored the weekly "Million Dollar Man" column, which included top executive interviews and easy to approach investing insights.

Brian Sozzi was Chief Equities Analyst for NBG Productions and Portfolio Manager for Decoding Wall St. In the Chief Equities Analyst capacity, he was responsible for developing independant opinions/ratings and actionable stock recommendations across NBG Productions' various brands. As Portfolio Manager for Decoding Wall St., he was responsible for managing two portfolios for retail and institutional investors, including one focused on dividend-paying stocks and the other for more active investors.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Developed in-depth equity research reports (35 companies consisting of retailers of hardline and softline goods, industrials, and video game software) by studying financial statements (income, balance sheet, and cash flow), reviewing SEC filings, attending analyst presentations, and participating in quarterly earnings conference calls. On-air guest for CNBC, Yahoo Finance "Breakout", Bloomberg, Fox Business Network, BNN Television Network, and PBS.Provided updated research assessments to institutional and retail clients on equities under coverage upon the release of pertinent information, including macroeconomic developments or firm-specific elements. Actively scanned the equities market to distribute stock ideas to clients of Swing Strategies, a trading service, disseminated four times daily. Assisted in authoring twice daily commentary on broad market activity along with equity and option recommendations to meet strategic medium-long-term investment goals of clients.Authored featured articles for company's website on the topics of macro economy developments, consumer developments, and investing tutorials.Provided mentoring to new employees and training in fundamental analyses, equities selection, and public speaking.Lead product developer for equity research department.Reported directly to CEO.