Prior to joining Hedgeye Risk Management, Brian was at Morgan Stanley, most recently as Executive Director in Equity Research, reworking the traditional stock coverage blueprint to maximize impact across a materially larger number of stocks.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Brian ran the consumer sector team at Copper Arch Capital, was the Director of Investor Relations at Nike, and started his career as a research analyst at Salomon Brothers and Smith Barney.

Todd has been a Portfolio Manager, Managing Director, and Analyst at Jefferies Asset Management, Cobalt Capital, and Ardsley Partners. Previously Todd worked as a sell-side analyst at Raymond James, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Buckingham Research.

Howard Penney is Managing Director at Hedgeye Risk Management. His research coverage focuses on the Restaurant Industry and other Consumer Staples sectors in the US. He has nearly two decades of experience following consumer related sectors including Tobacco, Beverage (including Latin America), Gaming and Restaurant sectors.

Prior to Hedgeye Risk Management, Howard spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley, including working on the MACRO team covering Small Company Strategy. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Howard was ranked #1 by Institutional Investor (Restaurants) and #1 in the WSJ poll (Tobacco). In addition, after Morgan Stanley Howard worked at FBR and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Howard received his BA in Finance and Economics from Florida Southern College.

Prior to joining Hedgeye Risk Management, Daryl was the Sector Head for Basic Materials at HIG Capital’s hedge fund, Brightpoint Capital. Earlier, Daryl founded the public investment effort at Onex Corporation, a leading private equity firm. At Hedgeye, Daryl covers commodities, geo-politics and major asset classes outside of equities.

Joshua has more than a decade of experience following sectors including Specialty Finance, general Financial Services and Satellite Communications.

Prior to Hedgeye Risk Management, Joshua was an integral part of the number-one ranked Institutional Investor and Greenwich Survey Mortgage and Specialty Finance team at Lehman Brothers before moving to the buy-side at Amaranth Group and Millennium Partners. He got his start at CE Unterberg, Towbin covering the Satellite Communications sector.

Prior to Hedgeye Risk Management, Tom was head of healthcare investments at Dawson-Herman Capital Management, which he joined after working as an analyst at W.P.Stewart. Tom’s industry background includes research work at MZT Holdings and at the Harvard/MGH Cutaneous Biology Research Center.

Jay has covered the Industrials sector for over a decade, providing buy-side research for long-only, long/short hedge funds, and proprietary trading strategies. He was a Co-Founder and Partner at Bishop & Carroll Capital Management, where he focused on Industrials, Materials and Consumer Durables.

Previously he was a Managing Director at LaBranche, which seeded Bishop & Carroll, and an Industrials & Materials Sector Analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman. Jay graduated from Yale with a B.S. in Chemistry.

Rob has nearly 20 years experience in the industry and within the last 5 years on the buy side at some of the top hedge funds in the business, including Pioneerpath, Diamondback Capital, and Searock Capital. Prior, he was a senior equity analyst at Prudential Securities where he was consistently Institutional Investor ranked.

Before Prudential he was at Sanford Bernstein as an equity research associate covering food, beverage, and retail. He began his career as a strategic consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Rob has a MBA from Columbia and BA in Economics from Duke.