Christopher Merrill Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

• Joined Bishop Rock Capital, a single manager, fundamental, long/short Hedge Fund at launch in 2015. Contributed to the investment team's strong performance in 2017 and 2018, allowing the firm to more than double its.
• Initially joined as an Analyst supporting the Portfolio Manager and Senior Equity Research Analyst on investment ideas and later was responsible for generating long and short ideas across the TMT, Industrial.
• Optimized the firm's workflow by improving our research funnels for sourcing and researching ideas,
• Qualified and tested technology and third party research providers, enabling the firm to maintain the highest level of data integrity, while lowering research expenses.
• Hired and trained research assistants, which provided significant leverage to the three-person investment team. Top Long Ideas:
• MSCI - Understood that more than 50% of the company's Index, Analytics, and Other segment were defensive and integrated into workflows regardless of market conditions, while 20-25% of revenue was tied to ABF and likely.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Joined the Investor Relations team at Seagate after previously working with the company in a consultative capacity at Thomson Reuters. Accomplishments:
• Provided novel shareholder analysis of firms and funds that enabled the firm to be more sophisticated with its targeting program.
• Built a comprehensive competitive analysis and earnings summaries of the company's broader public comps that was integrated into materials for Board meetings.
• Streamlined the earnings process by collaborating with external reporting and helped discover new insights that were relevant to the investment community.
• Interacted with Buy Side and Sell Side Analysts and helped the company establish new relationships with long term investors.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Joined Thomson Financial prior to its merger with Reuters in the firm's Corporate Advisory Services business, which provided insights and analysis to the investor relations teams of publicly traded companies. Started.
• Provided best practices consultations to investor relations programs within the Technology sector where multiple clients were recognized by Niri and II as having a top program.
• Co-created investor targeting programs that were successfully integrated by clients.
• Aided in activist defense for accounts that were under threat of shareholder activism by identifying and sizing activists' buying activity.