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Larry Berman is Chief Information Officer and Founder of ETF Capital Management. Drawing from his broad experience, Berman blends fundamentals with expert technical analysis to help BNN viewers uncover opportunities in the marketplace. Prior to founding ETFCM, Berman was Chief Technical Strategist and Managing Director for CIBC WorldMarkets since 1997. He was Senior Technical Analyst for Thomson IFR in Boston, and Senior Technical Analyst and Trader for Marleau, Lemire Futures in Toronto. Berman began his career as a Toronto-based investment advisor in 1989.

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Pat Bolland is the former on-air Stocks Editor at CNBC. Bolland broke stories on stocks in the early days of after-hours trading before his move to mornings where he set the tone for the rest of the day. Preceding CNBC, Bolland was a leading figure in Canada’s business news scene, as host and business editor for several national TV and radio shows. Bolland began his career as a floor clerk on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For over a decade, he sold stocks at the retail and institutional levels and eventually became the Vice President of Equity Trading with his firm in the industry’s top tier. Bolland is well-known to BNN viewers as the guy with the handlebar moustache!

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Mark Bunting joined the BNN team in 2001. In 2002, Bunting left the network and moved to CTV Newsnet and CFRB Radio in Toronto, where he was a business editor; he was also the host of Investors Online. Bunting rejoined BNN in 2004 then departed for the United Kingdom to assume the role of BNN’s London Bureau Chief for three years. Bunting returned to Canada in 2007 and now delivers stocks and strategy reports to BNN viewers from the network’s Toronto-based headquarters each trading day.

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Martin Cej has covered financial markets in Europe, Canada and the U.S. for more than a decade. He managed Bloomberg News' European equities desk from London for four years before moving to Toronto where he acted as Bloomberg's Markets Editor, responsible for stock, bond and currency coverage. After a stint in San Francisco as Global Markets Editor and columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com, the world's number-one financial news site, Cej returned to Canada to help launch GlobeinvestorGOLD.com, Canada's premier subscription-only financial website. In addition to his hosting role at BNN, Cej is currently Managing Editor for the network.

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One of the founding anchors at the network, Howard Green spent seven years at BNN (formerly Report on Business Television) before heading to Columbia University in 2006. Green was honoured by the school with a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business and economic journalism. Green began his reporting career in 1980 and started covering business in 1988. His work has been broadcast in more than 50 countries and his experience includes roles as a producer and reporter at Venture, a business magazine program on the CBC, contributing correspondent for PBS’ Nightly Business Report and producer/reporter for CBC's info technology and media series, Undercurrents. From 1990 to 2004, Green made nearly a dozen documentaries, the most notable being The Investigation of Swissair 111, a 90-minute film that took viewers inside the 4½-year inquiry into a plane crash that cost the lives of 229 people. He directed, wrote and co-produced the documentary, which won Canada’s top television prize -- the Gemini Award. For his Swissair 111 work in the U.S., which aired on PBS’ NOVA, Green was nominated for two Emmys. He has also won the top prize at the Columbus, Houston & Yorkton Festivals. Green returned to Canada and BNN in 2007 following his Fellowship at Columbia.

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Brett Harris is the Western Bureau Chief for the Business News Network. Brett was one of the original cast members of BNN when it launched in September 1999 and has helped build the specialty channel into Canada’s premier broadcast source for business and capital markets news. He hosted the popular phone-in show, Market Call, and developed and hosted BNN’s first weekend show, This Week in Business. Prior to BNN, Brett spent 10 years with CBC Television and Radio as a reporter, political correspondent, host and documentary producer.

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In addition to hosting some of BNN’s top rated programs, viewers may also recognize Michael Hainsworth for his work distilling the day’s financial news on local CTV newscasts across the country and for CTV Newsnet. Hainsworth made the transition into television after 11 years in radio; six of those were spent as news anchor and business reporter for Canada’s largest radio station, 680 News in Toronto. When not reporting the day’s financial news, Hainsworth can be found devouring the latest technology stories; he is a self confessed “computer geek.”

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Frances Horodelski has over 25 years of experience working with two of Canada's largest investment dealers. Her career has spanned research, portfolio advice, investment banking and international strategy. She also holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She has held a variety of roles, including senior management, and was appointed one of only a handful of women directors at RBC Dominion Securities in the 1990s. Her great love, however, is the analysis of markets in general and companies specifically – and trying to determine the direction of both. Despite her tenure on the street, the dynamics of financial markets and the opportunities they present continue to intrigue her. Every day, she shares her enthusiasm with viewers so together they can look for ways to profit from the stories that develop.

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Before joining BNN in 2001, Michael Kane was the markets editor on the CanWest Global-TV show Prime Business with Deirdre McMurdy. Kane began his broadcast career in radio at CJOY in Guelph, Ontario before spending eight years in and around Prince George, B.C. at CJCI 620. Kane was operations manager at CKSY-FM in Chatham, Ontario before becoming senior editor and newscaster on a Toronto-based national wire service, Standard Broadcast News; and he was the morning line-up editor at 680News when it was converted from rock station CFTR.

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Patricia Lovett-Reid is one of Canada’s leading and respected authorities on personal finance. She is the Senior Vice President of TD Waterhouse Canada Inc., and the host of BNN’s MoneyTalk, Canada's premier show on personal finance, airing every Monday at 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT. For her commitment in educating investors, Patricia has been recognized with the 2007 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award™ in the “Trailblazers and Trendsetters” category. A sought-after speaker and commentator on wealth management, she has also co-authored several national best selling books. Patricia holds the designation of Certified Financial Planner and is a Honourary Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. She has also taken on the role of Trusted Wealth Advisor, with Indigo Chapters.

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Niall McGee hails from Donegal, Ireland. Prior to joining BNN in 2004, he worked as a reporter with the Weather Network. In 2003, McGee completed the Canadian Securities Course. McGee holds a BA in European Studies and majored in economics; he speaks five languages including Gaelic, French, Italian and Spanish.

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Linda Nazareth has been the Senior Economic Analyst for BNN since 1999. Prior to joining the network, Nazareth was a senior economist with CIBC, and earlier in her career she was an economist with the federal government. Nazareth is an author and an expert on the economic effects of demographic and social change; her newest book is titled, The Leisure Economy. Nazareth holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics, both from the University of Toronto.

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Kim Parlee joined BNN during its infancy in 2001 and has worked as anchor, markets editor and technology reporter at the network. Parlee launched her journalism career at CBC Newsworld, but her in-depth knowledge of business evolved from working in finance at a number of blue-chip companies in Canada and abroad. Following that, she taught marketing at Dalhousie University, and helped start a technology venture capital company in Toronto. Parlee holds a commerce degree from the University of Guelph, an International MBA from York University and has done post-graduate work at IESA, one of South America’s top business schools located in Caracas, Venezuela.

Jacquie McNish is a senior writer with The Globe and Mail. She is the winner of numerous awards including two national newspaper awards and the 2005 National Business Book Award for Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, which she co-authored with Sinclair Stewart. McNish is also the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller The Big Score: Robert Friedland and the Voisey's Bay Hustle.

Andrew Willis has been covering capital markets in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business for more than a decade. The London, Ont., native follows the deals, the deal-makers and the street's scoundrels and has spent the past 20 years either keeping tabs on investment banks, or working at one. Willis co-authored a book on the Bre-X fraud in 1997.

Paul Waldie has been an award-winning journalist with The Globe and Mail for more than 10 years. He has won two National Newspaper Awards for business coverage and authored a best-selling biography of the McCain family. Waldie is a former national editor of the National Post and he has worked at newspapers in Vancouver and Montreal.