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The Board | |
Steve Gelsi, NYFWA president for 2008 (read the President's Blog) THE NEW YORK FINANCIAL WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. OFFICERS/GOVERNORS/ASSOCIATE REPRESENTATIVES - Officers - - Board of Governors - - Associate Representatives -  Associate Representative: George Auerbach joined the Financial Writers in 1952 and has been on stage in the Follies every year since. After a long stint as a reporter in the business news department at the New York Times from 1948 to 1963, he joined a financial PR and in 1971 set up his own financial PR firm. He retired in 1997. George served as NYFWA VP in 1962-63 and was the Follies’ first producer in 1988. Secy-Asst Treasurer : Kenneth Barry is a financial news copy editor at Reuters, where he has worked as a reporter and editor for more than 20 years. After graduating from Columbia, he began his journalism career at United Press International, took a detour to teach high school English, then returned to journalism, first as a reporter at the Bureau of National Affairs Inc. in Washington, then at Reuters. For Reuters Barry covered the government's breakup of AT&T and the savings and loan crisis, among other stories. He received a Gannett Foundation fellowship in Asian studies at the University of Hawaii, and his assignments also included four years working in Asia with Reuters Vice President : Josh Friedlander is a senior writer at Absolute Return, a magazine covering the hedge fund industry. His beat includes profiles of hedge fund managers, trend coverage, and reports on hedge fund performance. He previously wrote for Investment Dealers' Digest, a weekly magazinecovering Wall Street, where he reported on hedge funds and private equity. Prior to that, Friedlander reported on bulge bracket brokerage firmsand equity research for the Wall Street Letter and covered the retirement industry at Defined Contribution News, two publications of Institutional Investor News. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Connecticut College. Associate Representative: Sharon Gamsin was the second woman to be elected president of the New York Financial Writers Association, and one of the first women to join the cast of the Follies. Currently Vice President of Global Communiations for MasterCard, she has more than 20 years experience in corporate communications and journalism. A graduate of Boston University's College of Communications, Sharon was a reporter for The Journal of Commerce, The Trib, The Oil Daily and Petroleum Information International, focusing on covering the oil industry and OPEC. She joined the New York Stock Exchange in 1983, and was head of the NYSE press office during one of the most exciting periods in its history. She has lived and worked all around the world, having been based in London for SmithKline Beecham and Hong Kong for Merrill Lynch. President: Steve Gelsi is a reporter for MarketWatch at Dow Jones. He lives with wife and three children in Jersey City. Steve has been active in the Follies and is now on the Finance Committee. Associate Representative: Steve Govoni is a Senior Financial Writer-Market Analyst with Lord Abbett, one of the oldest money management firms in the United States. He joined the NYFWA in 1986, served on the board from 1991 to 1993, and performed in seven Follies productions. A graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics & Business Journalism, he has worked as a supervisory analyst for Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Lehman Brothers. Before moving to Wall Street, he was executive editor of Financial World, a story editor at The New York Times, and senior editor at Corporate Finance magazines.While freelancing for numerous national publications, he was a contributing editor to CFO and Plan Sponsor magazines. As a newspaper reporter, he received a number of prizes, including a Deadline Award for exposing the fraudulent bankruptcies of trucking companies in New York in New Jersey. After rejoining the NYFWA board in 2006, Steve joined the finance committee. He also photographed seven association events, including the Follies, and is currently working with the website committee on a redesign. Treasurer: Conway G. Conway has been a member of the NYFWA since 2003 after being "star struck" at the Annual Follies Dinner several years before. He became a member of the Board of Directors in 2006. After graduating magna cum laude from Long Island University, Conway joined Reuters Television in 1997. During his decade long career he has reported live from the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYMEX. His reports now focus on the growing eco-business environment as well as his much-loved beat covering the financial markets. Governor: Erika Hymowitz Vujnovich has been a member of the NYFWA since 2000 and chair of the Follies program committee for the past three years. She's been at Thomson Financial for the past year and prior to that had been at CNBC and CNN Financial News. Governor: Richard Koreto, who was president in 2005, joined NYFWA in 1999. He is editor-in-chief of Wealth Manager Magazine. Most recently he was executive editor of Financial Planning magazine and has also worked at the Journal of Accountancy and various online news services. Governor: Sheila Mullan is a senior bond reporter at Market News International. She has also worked as a freelance writer at the New York Times and New York Post's Sunday business news sections, and as an IPO reporter at IFR magazine in New York and Hong Kong, and a bond analyst at Standard & Poor's MMS in Hong Kong. Governor: Colleen O'Connor-Grant has been a financial journalist for the last five years and was with Inverstors' Dealers Digest where she covered equity capital markets news. She is a former assistant editor, covering CDOs, for Asset Securitization Report, and is a former Managing Editor of Private Placement Letter. Having served a two terms on the Board thus far, she joined the NYFWA in 2002, which also marked her first appearance in the Financial Follies. She currently chairs the Events Committee. She graduated cum laude from Monmouth University, W. Long Branch, NJ with a BA in Communication. Governor: Britt Erica Tunick most recently was a senior editor for Alpha, a monthly magazine covering the hedge fund industry. She has been writing about finance for the last decade, most recently for Investment Dealers' Digest where she spent four years covering equities, media and entertainment, technology, the securities exchanges, venture capital and accounting. Her other experience includes a two year stint in London where she reported on European and U.K. startups for EO News and freelanced for Euromoney Magazine, the Sunday Business and the Financial Times. Other positions have included Securities Week, The Bond Buyer and Financial Markets Daily. Britt has a BA in English/Journalism from Pepperdine University and an MA in Public Affairs Reporting from the American University School of Communication. She was the 2006/2007 president of the NYFWA and served as producer for the Financial Follies in 2005, 2006, and 2007. |
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