| Todd Harrison | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Founder and CEO of Minyanville |
Todd Harrison is the founder and CEO of the Emmy Award-winning internet media company Minyanville.
Harrison has more than twenty years of experience on Wall Street. Starting in 1992, he spent seven years on the worldwide equity derivative desk at Morgan Stanley, finishing as Vice President; was Managing Director of Derivatives at The Galleon Group ("brief and unsatisfying stint" of about a year-and-a-half[1]), and was President of the $400 million hedge fund Cramer Berkowitz[2] and writer for TheStreet.com.[1] He then founded the Minyanville internet media company and acts as its CEO.[2]
He published his career story in The Other Side of Wall Street: In business it pays to be an animal, in life it pays to be yourself (2011: FT Press).[1]
Harrison has appeared on Fox, CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg Television, and in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Worth, Fortune, Barron’s, Dow Jones MarketWatch, New York Magazine, and Canada’s National Post. He has been a guest on Bloomberg's Taking Stock on numerous occasions to discuss the stock market and his book.
Harrison has lectured at numerous academic institutions including Harvard University, Syracuse University, New York University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Along with Minyanville Media, Harrison received an Emmy Award from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his role as Executive Producer of the animated business news show Minyanville's World in Review.[2]
Harrison and Minyanville support the company's charitable branch, The Ruby Beck Foundation for Children's Education. In mid-2011, he and the Foundation were "committed to rebuilding a high school library destroyed by the deadly tornado in Joplin, Missouri".[3]
The content of this article has been derived in whole or part from Bibliography section at http://www.amazon.com/Todd-A.-Harrison/e/B004LUZGI6/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0. Permission has been received from the copyright holder to release this material under an appropriate free content license. Evidence of this has been confirmed and stored by OTRS volunteers, under ticket number 2011042710018948. Some of this article is also picked up from the Minyanville bio.