Howard Klein Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

Howard founded New York-based boutique capital markets advisory firm RK Equity in 2002 and has over 25 years experience raising capital for and investing across multiple investment themes in natural resources, with a particular focus on lithium and other commodities relevant to batteries used in electric vehicles and utility storage. Howard authors and distributes the "Lithium-ion Bull" newsletter and co-hosts "Rock Stock Channel" on YouTube and "Lithium-ion Rocks!" podcast, which has a wide audience of institutional investors and accredited investors in North America, Australia and Europe. Howard also speaks regularly at investment conferences about the disruptive battery metals thematic.

Led the institutional sales desk focused on emerging market equities in South Africa, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East/North Africa region with brief stint selling Japanese equities. This four-year window of time coincided with the Asia financial crisis, the Russian financial crisis, the collapse of Long Term Capital Management, the IPO of Amazon, Y2K monetary stimulus fueling the euphoric topping and popping of the internet bubble, the Bosnia War, Clinton impeachment, Yeltsin's death and Putin's accession, the Greek stock market bubble upon graduating from MSCI Emerging to Developed Index, the first implementation of the Euro, cool new devices called Blackberries and, finally, 9/11.

Researched M&A, new issues and privatization transactions in Central Europe, Russia and other emerging market countries.

Mba, Finance

Ba, Economics

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