About us
Proactiveinvestors North America
Proactiveinvestors North America was established to provide financial news, stock market news, and business financial news in Canada and the United States, reported from our offices in Toronto.
Proactiveinvestors Limited
Proactiveinvestors North America is part of the wider network of Proactiveinvestors websites that cover financial news in Australia, UK, and China. We are an international news organisation with offices in Beijing, Toronto, Sydney and the UK.
Our goal is to be a database of news, research, comment and analysis on listed companies across the world's major stock exchanges. Our articles offer up to date, informed, dynamic snap shots of a company’s past, present and future ambitions and we encourage our readers to research further material to make a rounded decision on a company's prospects.
Global Web Traffic
Globally, our traffic is growing at a phenomenal rate as private and professional investors continue to rank us as one of the leading free sources of breaking news and in-depth comment on companies listed on stock exchanges across the globe. For the month of June 2009, total unique visitors to Proactiveinvestors topped 125,000, up 20% on the previous month. Our North American and Australian websites are ranked in the top 250,000 global websites by alexa.com; while our UK site recently entered the top 100,000.
We supply ours news to the world's largest news amalgamators, and we also provide commentary to dozens of other leading investor focused websites. You can also follow us on blogger.com, youtube.com and twitter.com
1000's of our readers subscribe to our RSS feeds, and our newsletter now reaches in excess of 36,000 readers each week, and continues to grow rapidly.
We also host investor forums in Sydney, London, UK and Toronto, Canada on a monthly basis where 3 companies present to an audience of high net worth professional investors, fund managers, analysts and brokers. These events are hugely popular and attract up to 120 attendees. Forums will soon be operating in Vancouver, Melbourne and Birmingham, UK.
Proactive Sponsors
Companies wishing to reach investors are continually looking for ways to get their story out. We offer an unparalleled package of online opportunities for companies looking to raise their exposure into multiple markets across the globe. Should you wish to hear more about how we can help you expand your reach, drop us a line here action@proactiveinvestors.com
The Proactive Team:
Ian Mclelland - Managing Director and EditorAs the founder of Proactiveinvestors Group, Ian Mclelland currently acts as Managing Director and Editor for the Group. His focus is on continually sourcing new editorial material, developing the brand and business, and generally dealing with the day to day operations. With a degree in Business Development and a keen passion for investing, Ian set up the company to address what he believed was a dearth of well written, free material on listed companies.
Craig Ribton - Executive Director of CommunicationsGraduated with a BA Honours in 2002 before moving on to become a project manager where he co-ordinated a variety of large scale projects while furthering his knowledge of the stock market. In 2003 Craig began investing in companies with a natural resource focus and in 2005 qualified in advanced web design. With growing experience in the implementation of finance media and a keen interest in investing, Craig is tasked with client communications and development, as well as growing the Proactive Group's brand, awareness and reach.
Sam Kiri - Managing Director, Proactiveinvestors CanadaSam is in charge of Proactive Investors’ North American operation and is also one of the analysts of the group. He has over 10 years capital markets and asset management experience in both North America and the Pacific Rim, with primary focus on Resources and Oil & Gas sectors. He spent three years with Scotia Bank as an International Equity analyst, and was responsible for the management of the Scotia Pacific Rim Mutual Fund. Sam is a CFA Charter Holder, a qualified Management Accountant (ACMA) and has a MBA in Finance. He also has considerable academic experience spanning over 10 years teaching Financial Analysis in England.
Ed Borrelli - Managing Director, Proactiveinvestors USAEdward Borrelli has over two decades of financial transaction experience, and has raised in excess of $500 million for an extensive list of clients. Ed spent several years as a senior registered broker at RAS Securities in New York and was Director, Investment Banking/ European Institutional Sales at Leeb Brokerage Services, and Senior Partner - Director of International Sales at Brookehill Equities, both in New York.
Andrew McCrea - Managing Director, Proactiveinvestors AustraliaAndrew McCrea is an emerging company’s specialist and small company analyst – with a focus on emerging resources producer’s listed on the ASX. Mr McCrea has worked for Citigroup in New York & London and in Hong Kong and Malaysia as a top rated securities analyst. He has been a share market columnist and contributing writer for national newspapers and magazines in Australia and Asia – most recently for Virgin Blue magazine. Mr McCrea has also been extensively involved in corporate finance, progressing early stage companies to IPO in Australia and North America. Mr McCrea is a director of U3 Capital – a stock broking/dealer specialising in small cap stocks on the ASX.
Carrie Howes - DirectorEvent management is overseen by Carrie Howes, who runs her own Investor Relations business which offers extensive European Road shows. FSA regulated, with past experience as a broker with Union Securities, Carrie advises, assist and manages our One2One Forums in London and also offers all of our sponsors European road show options.
Andre Lamberti - Sub EditorAndre Lamberti spent ten years as sub-editor at Thomson Reuters before joining Proactiveinvestors. Before his time at Thomson Reuters, he was a copywriter for Fidelity International and Telecom Finance. Andre speaks fluent German and Dutch, and has a Masters Degree in History and Political Science.
Harry Norman - Contributor & InterviewerHarry contributes ideas, research, articles, audio interviews, and argues with Ian about big issues like strategy, the next big thing ... and the use of commas. He comes from a psychology and writing background, so he also coaches writers. Harry believes you can't get enough gold, copper, oil, wheat etc - or enough good management!
Jeff Coote - Investment WriterAfter graduating in Business Management from the University of Brighton in 1994, Jeff spent 10 years in Tokyo learning Japanese, teaching English and working for Bloomberg News as a Multimedia Journalist. On returning to the UK in 2005, he spent a further 3 years at Bloomberg in London before taking a sabbatical year to study for an MBA at London Metropolitan Business School. Jeff has now settled in Sydney and joined Proactive Investors as an Investment Writer.
David Rowlands - ContributorDavid Rowland describes himself as a latecomer to equities. After very successful but horribly arbitrary debut flirtations a decade ago with Gazprom, Lukoil and then Brancote, he became interested in the resource sector and started the long, painful climb up the learning curve as a specialist private investor, focussing mainly on the junior end of the gold and precious metal market. He remains an avid consumer of all things geological. Thanks to David’s professional background, he has a secondary interest in biotechnology equities. As well as wielding his pen for Proactive, he writes and teaches on ethical issues in the UK and abroad.
Wendy Durham - ContributorWendy Durham has spent the best part of 35 years scribbling busily, having been editor of several business to business magazines and PR manager for a variety of companies, including two well-known exhibition organisers. In recent years, working from home has aided and abetted an investing habit which - whilst having a patchy success record to begin with - has led to a good knowledge of the natural resource sector, where she focuses on precious and base metals.
Jackie Steinitz - ContributorAn economist by background Jackie Steinitz has worked in the fields of economics, statistics, market research and strategic planning in the transport and mining sectors. Previous employers have included Charter Consolidated/Anglo American and De Beers, where, inter alia, she was involved in forecasting short- and long-term trends, and she organised and analysed research projects in 20+ countries. She now works as a journalist and consultant.
George Jenkins - ContributorGeorge has been an investor for 15 years. He spent his early years focusing on getting asset allocation right in managed funds, successfully going into bonds at the stock market peak in 2000. He then started looking at commodities and in recent years been an active investor in small and mid-cap oil and resource stocks with both stunning success and some abject failure. In addition, he takes an active interest in a wide range of personal finance matters.
Jon Mainwaring – ContributorA former engineer, Jon has written about the technology sector since the mid-1990s. His career includes time spent as an analyst for Durlacher investment bank, where he researched technology companies quoted on London’s Alternative Investment Market. Since 2003 he has freelanced, writing for a wide range of publications that include UK national newspapers, US technology magazines and specialist financial publications. In 2005, he was named AIM Journalist of the Year – a prestigious award conferred upon him by the London Stock Exchange.
Robert Waterhouse - ContributorRobert heads a successful private syndicate which invests in recovery plays in the natural resources sector. With an honours degree in science and a management career that began in 1967, he seeks to apply an analytical approach to investment, and is the creator of the BPS (barrels per share) Index for use in appraising and comparing oil company portfolios. Formerly the head of operational planning and performance appraisal for one of Europe's largest corporations, Robert believes in doing extensive research, taking long-term positions in hand-picked companies, and in backing one's own judgement.
Patrizia Rossi – ContributorPatrizia has been a journalist and editor for ten years, starting out as a national news reporter on The Mexico City Times. She was also editor of the US newsstand magazine, Latino Leaders, a who’s who of high profile US Hispanics. After returning from overseas, she took the editorship of the monthly financial title Mergers & Acquisition magazine, gaining greater insight into the corporate finance market. She currently freelances, writing for a wide range of publications that include B2B magazines and specialist financial publications.
