About Us
| Proactive Investors is global network of websites that cover financial news on Australian, North American, European and Chinese stock markets. We are an international news organisation based in the UK with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Toronto and Sydney. Our goal is to offer a database of news, research, comment and analysis about 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. |
| We take particular care to make sure our articles not only reflect the current situation surrounding the company in question, but are also grounded to the overlying sentiment in the market, reflected in the share price chart. |
| 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 news and information on companies listed on stock exchanges across the globe. We supply ours news to the world's largest news amalgamaters, and we also provide commentary to several other leading investor focused websites, including Kitco.com, Digitallook.com and Stockhouse.com - to name just a few. Thousands of our readers subscribe to our RSS feeds and our newsletter now reaches in excess of 33,000 readers each week, and continues to grow rapidly. |
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| Proactive sponsors |
| Companies wishing to reach investors are continually looking for ways to get their story out. We offer an unparalleled package of online, print and event opportunities for companies looking to raise their exposure into multiple markets across the globe. Should you wish to find out more about how we can help you expand your reach, please contact us at: enquiries@proactiveinvestors.com.hk |
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The Proactive team
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| Ian Mclelland - Managing Director and Editor As the founder of Proactive Investors 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. |
| Kim Hunter Gordon - Beijing bureau chief Kim Hunter Gordon is a financial journalist who has lived in Beijing and Shanghai for over three years. He has previously worked as a correspondent for The Scotsman newspaper and as a business reporter for The Observer in London. |
| Frank Yang - Senior researcher, Beijing bureau Frank Yang is an MBA graduate from Beijing's Tsinghua University. He has worked as an editor in a Chinese publishing house and in investor relations for NASDAQ-listed Chinese companies. He has also translated several financial book tiles from English to Chinese. |
| Andrew McCrea - Director of Operations, Proactive Australia Andrew McCrea is an emerging company's specialist and small company analyst with a focus on emerging resources producer's listed on the ASX. He 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. He has also been extensively involved in corporate finance, progressing early stage companies to IPO in Australia and North America. Andrew is also a director of U3 Capital a stock broking/dealer specialising in small cap stocks on the ASX. |
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Sam Kiri - Director of Operations, Proactive North America Sam 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. |
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Craig Ribton - Executive Director of Communications Graduated 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. |
| Carrie Howes - Director Event 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 Andre 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 Harry 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! |
| David Rowlands - Contributor David 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, focusing 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 - Contributor Wendy 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 - Contributor An 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 - Contributor George has been an investor for 15 years. He spent his early years focusing on getting asset allocation right in managed funds, successful ly 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. |
