About us
Proactiveinvestors
Proactiveinvestors is a leading multi-media news organisation, investor portal and events management business with offices in Hong Kong, Sydney, Toronto, Frankfurt and London.
Proactiveinvestors operates five financial websites in four languages providing breaking news, comment and analysis on hundreds of listed companies across the globe daily. We are one of the fastest growing financial media portals in the world.
The group also operates hugely successful “investor forums” where three or four companies present to an audience of high net sophisticated investors, fund managers, hedge funds, private client brokers and analysts.
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. In the month of October 2009, total unique visitors to Proactiveinvestors websites topped 250,000 up 50% from just three months earlier.
We provide our content to many of the world's largest news amalgamators, financial websites, and news tracking services, and we also provide commentary to dozens of other leading specialist investor focused websites.
1000's of our readers subscribe to our RSS feeds, and our newsletter now reaches in excess of 45,000 readers each week, and continues to grow rapidly.
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
The Proactive Team:
Ian Mclelland - Group Managing DirectorIan Mclelland currently acts as Group Managing Director and is the founder of the business. His focus is on continually sourcing new editorial material, developing the brand and business, and generally dealing with the day to day operations. Ian has a degree in Business Development and has successfully managed his own investments for over a decade.
Craig Ribton - Director of Operations, Proactiveinvestors United KingdomGraduated 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 of 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 companies specialist and small company analyst – with a focus on emerging resources producer’s listed on the ASX. Andrew 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. Andrew has also been extensively involved in corporate finance, progressing early stage companies to IPO in Australia and North America. He is a director of U3 Capital – a stock broking/dealer specialising in small cap stocks on the ASX.
Carrie Howes - Director of Operations, Proactivinvestors GermanyEvent 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 Editor, Proactiveinvestors United KingdomAndre Lamberti spent ten years as sub-editor at Reuters before joining Proactiveinvestors. Before his time at 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.
Giles Gwinnett - Sub Editor, Proactiveinvestors GermanyGiles Gwinnett is a qualified journalist and has worked for a number of newspapers and for a press agency. He was formerly a news analyst on the German team at Thomson Financial, now Thomson Reuters. He has a Bachelors degree in English Literature and German and a Masters in Film Studies. He currently manages content on Proactiveinvestors Germany.
Sergei Balashow - Equities JournalistSergei Balashov began his journalistic career in 2001 as an op/ed writer for The North County Times before joining the Los Angeles Times’ Moscow Bureau on a part time basis, while still a student at the University of Management of the Moscow Government. After graduating from alma-mater and commencing working on his PhD degree in economics, Sergei served as a senior analyst at Russian-American oil & gas consultancy Russian Petroleum Investor and as a staff writer at the Russia Profile magazine prior to moving to the UK and joining Proactiveinvestors.
Jamie Ashcroft - Equities JournalistAfter graduating with first class honours in Economics from Lancaster University 2006, Jamie spent a number of years as a Private Client Equity Dealer gaining front-line experience in the Investment industry during the most fast paced and volatile period in financial history. Having acquired an insight from both professional and individual investors, Jamie joined our growing editorial team in 2009.
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.
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!
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.
Alec Hajinoff – ContributorAlec Hajinoff has been managing his own investment fund for the last five years. He has been running an equity investment course for private investors for the last two years. His area of expertise is in fundamental company valuation. His holds a degree in Business Management which has been complemented by over three years of self-study in Corporate Finance.
Michael Welsh – ContributorMichael Welsh has been investing in small cap energy and minerals shares market for over four years. His trading strategy comprises buying fundamentally strong shares on a long term basis and utilising technical analysis in day trading through spread betting. Michael is currently working towards a Bsc (Hons) degree in Psychology.
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.