The Team:
Steve Sandifer - Founder
SSandifer@TheStreetBeat.com
Steve is a founding member of The Street Beat and has been providing his customers with an innovative outlook on marketing and branding since day one. His broad experience in marketing, advertising, sales, and Web 2.0 provide Steve with the know-how to lead an effective organization in today’s constant changing world of internet marketing.
Identifying the ever emerging synergy between corporate branding and investor relations is imperative to Steve in order to continue bringing clients the greatest tangible results. A satisfied client is only one who can see the real value of their investment and Steve works to ensure The Street Beat teams are delivering outstanding customer service for each client, all the time.
Steve Kanaval - Market Education / Chief Editor / Contributor
editor@TheStreetBeat.comSteve Kanaval is well known around the trading community and has developed products and systems used on many of your desktops today. As an original member of the Morgan Stanley Futures Task Force at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the early 80's Steve was one of the early adopters and market makers in what we know as the S&P500 Futures Contract.As President and Founder of Chicago Arbitrage Group Steve developed hedging tools the Corporate and Pension Fund Industry still use today. Steve came from a family of commodity traders and has managed multi-million dollar portfolios for 30 years working through historic events like the stock market crash in 1987, the Internet boom in San Francisco in the mid 90's and traded successfully through the markets around 911 as a Fund Manager. He has held Capital Commitment responsibility at various trading desks on Wall Street and remains active in trading circles as a regulatory advisor to several hedge funds after his 30 years in the trading community.His current direction has been in New Media and journalism as it applies to financial markets. Among his recent projects are; President of Market News First Television; Director of Research at Knobias, Inc.; and Advisory Board Member at several public companies over the years. Steve appears regularly for popular media outlets as an authority in the small and micro-cap marketplace and writes daily about these market sectors as the Executive Editor at WorldMarketMedia.com, Penny PayDay.com, MaddStocks.com, MicroCap Thinker.com. The Editor’s Desk authors insightful real-time coverage on the economy, capital markets and their listed companies. Steve oversees the a comprehensive Research Group combining media and in-depth journalistic research in these targeted market segments.Andrew Klips - Senior Research Analyst and Contributor
aklips@TheStreetBeat.comAndrew Klips, Contributing Writer, has been involved in the stock market since the early 1980's. An active trader for many years, Andy honed his skills in technical analysis, specifically for the Small and Mid-Cap markets. His experiences and close association with senior management of both large and small corporations throughout the years have led to a vast knowledge of investor's sentiment and business strategies. He was working as a freelance stock market journalist when he set out to change the way that typical investor relations were handled. Frustrated with "low bar standards" set in the investor relations industry, Andy drew upon his experiences, "out of the box" strategies and journalism skills to establish a successful consultation and investor relations firm. He joined PennyPayday in early 2010.Bolton Flautt - Stock News Reporter and Contributor
bflautt@TheStreetBeat.com
Bolton Flautt graduated from Millsaps College in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a minor in economics. From 2001 to 2006, he was employed by the public company Knobias (KBAS) in the following capacities: 1) Research Specialist – creating company profiles for 5,000 SmallCap public companies; 2) Earnings Writer – reported quarterly and yearly earnings, guidance and headline news for all public companies; 3) PIPE/trac Database Supervisor – design, development and maintenance of Knobias database tracking all PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) transactions (roughly 10,000 PIPE records). From 2007 to present, Mr. Flautt has worked for service providers to SmallCap public companies in the following capacities: 1) Director of Research – coordinated journalists and show hosts with content relevant to audience and published more than 1,000 articles on public companies; 2) Software Development – VOIP software for call rooms, backend publishing tools, social media dissemination of public information (i.e Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc.) and search engine optimization (SEO); and 3) Advertising Director – via Google Adwords, blogging, SEO, Web site design and trade shows that attributed to tripling of revenues from 2007 to present.
David Flautt - Contributor
dflautt@TheStreetBeat.comDavid joined PPD in 2010 as a writer covering Micro Cap and Small Cap stocks and news. He has been tutored by both Steve Kanaval and Bolton Flautt and their combined knowledge show in David's contributions.Sean Furstentwerth - Web Master / Contributor
sean@TheStreetBeat.comSean has been the webmaster for PennyPayday.com since March of 2010 and is a casual contributor. His style lends more to the social scene and he brings a unique perspective of an "outsider" to our readers. He is also known to throw in the occasional editorial on world events.Fio Steckler - Market Analyst and Contributor
fsteckler@TheStreetBeat.com
Fio Steckler is a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Graduate in Journalism and has lived in the Northwoods all of her life. Fio blogs daily on the US Equitiy Markets as they relate to cultural events. She also plays the Sitar.
Tee Friskey - Equity Research and Contributor
tfriskey@TheStreetBeat.com
Tee Frisky is a Mother of 3 and is a self taught writer also from Wisconsin. She follows and writes on Commodity Markets and World Currency and has more than 1000 articles published via various media outlets. She has been known to appear at events with all 3 children who are all perfectly trained to collect facts from the event, and often appear as characters in her stories.
Janice Meehan - Research Analyst and Contributor
jmeehan@TheStreetBeat.com
"Andy Dufrane" - Stock News Reporter
adufrane@TheStreetBeat.com