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Us
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STP Advisory Services, LLC provides independent research and consulting in finance and economics. Our research provides answers you can use today, this week and next month. We customize reports you can use for decision making and client building. Contact us today to arrange a review of your needs for economic or financial analysis, advice on operating efficiently, and capital market strategies. Let STP Advisory Services create your “Dream Team” today!
Representative Client List
Public Companies
- Overstock.com, Inc.
- CBS News (60 Minutes)
- Circle Group Holdings, Inc.
Private Corporations
- Venable, LLC
- Christian, Smith and Jewell, LLC
- O'Quinn, Laminack & Pirtle
- Hodges and Associates
- Olde Monmouth Stock Transfer, Co., Inc.
- Entwistle & Cappucci LLP
- OhTech Development Corp.
- Financial Markets World, Inc.
- Frizzell Law Firm
- Mawardy Corporation
- Asset Recovery Group, Inc.
- Vistage International, Inc.
Other
- Egyptian Banking Institute
- Higher Institute for Specific Studies (Egypt)
- International Financing Review (Thomson Reuters)
ABOUT
STP ADVISORY SERVICES
Our expanding network includes providers of a wide range of products and services throughout the U.S. and overseas. We have had the good fortune to work with many outstanding individuals, such as those listed below, to help solve problems and provide answers to satisfy the demands of our diverse clients.
ABOUT
SUSANNE TRIMBATH
Susanne Trimbath, Ph.D. is CEO and Chief Economist of STP Advisory Services. Dr. Trimbath’s credits include appearances on national television and radio programs (CNBC’s Power Lunch and NPR’s Marketplace) and the Emmy® Award nominated Bloomberg report Phantom Shares. Trimbath’s articles appear in the national publications US Banker, The International Economy, The American Enterprise, and The Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor.
Dr. Trimbath was formerly Senior Research Economist at the Milken Institute and Senior Advisor on the Russian capital markets project for KPMG. Dr. Trimbath taught at both University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and New York University ’s Department of Economics . She gained 20 years experience in financial services operations at Depository Trust Company in New York, Pacific Depository Trust and Clearing Corporations in San Francisco and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
ABOUT HILTON ROOT
Dr. Hilton L. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international political economy and development, joined the faculty of the School of Public Policy at George Mason University in summer of 2006. He was Freeman Fellow and Visiting Professor of Economics at Pitzer College and Senior Fellow at Claremont Graduate University from June 2003 to June 2006. He served the current administration as US Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the Treasury. Dr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian affairs. As a policy expert, Dr. Root advises the Asian Development Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the US State Department, the US Treasury Department and USAID. He has completed projects in 23 countries. While at the ADB as chief advisor on governance, he was the principal author of the ADB’s Board-approved governance policy. He presided over a committee on governance indicators at the OECD and initiated the restructuring of the Sri Lanka civil service as an advisor to President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. He was one of the principal contributors to the design of the Millenium Challenge Account of the Bush administration.
ABOUT JOEL KOTKIN
Joel Kotkin is an internationally known expert and historian
who provides the social and political context for our statistics. Kotkin
was among the first to identify new trends in urban growth, in such papers
as “Can the Cities Survive?” and the landmark, HUD-funded “Knowledge Value
Cities in the Digital Age”. Kotkin's is the author of The New Geography,
How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random
House, 2000). His latest book, The City: A Global History, is available
from Modern Library.
ABOUT
CARL HAGBERG
Carl T. Hagberg is the Chairman and CEO of Carl T. Hagberg and Associates,
a firm he founded in 1992 that specializes in Shareholder Services and “Retail
Investor Relations.“ He is also the editor and publisher of The Shareholder
Service Optimizer, a bi-monthly newsletter which he founded in 1994. Carl is
one of the country's foremost experts on the proxy-voting process. He has also
served as an expert consultant or expert witness in more than a dozen cases
involving securities transfers, exchanges and tender offers, lost and restricted
securities and proxy voting matters. Carl holds a B.A. in economics from NYU
and an M.S. from the Columbia University School of Business. He is a panelist
of the American Arbitration Association, a member of the American Society of
Corporate Secretaries, the National Investor Relations Institute, and the Securities
Transfer Association.
ABOUT STANLEY SHELL
Stanley Shell is head of Stanyurl LLC, an enterprise that
develops herbal food supplements, health beverages, and cosmetic products.
Stanyurl's consumer products are based on the work that Mr. Shell initiated
with a group of Russian scientists in 1997. The food supplements and cosmetics
are currently used in the Russian Far East and will be available in the US
in the near future. Products in development include beauty aides, Balzams
food supplements and beverages.
Shell also brings 25 years of financial industry experience to STP Advisory
Services. From the front lines of the offices of a major U.S. stock broker
to the floor of the stock exchange in Vladivostock, Russia, he has experience
in operations, compliance, regulation, and marketing.
ABOUT RAYMOND RILEY
Raymond “Ray” Riley specializes in corporate trust systems
and procedures. He has served as Inspector of Election at well over 100 routine
and contested corporate shareholder meetings. While serving as the chief
technology officer for Manufacturers Hanover Corporate and Institutional
Trust and Agency group in New York, he developed the first fully-online
proxy tabulation and reporting system. Ray is a former president of the Securities
Transfer Association.
Riley has specific, working knowledge of the accounting, reconciliation
and operating procedures used to maintain shareholder records on behalf of
issuers, as well issuer/agent interactions with the central depository in
the U.S. He has worked on several projects to aid the development of safe
and efficient capital markets in countries including Russia and Egypt.
ABOUT RICHARD SMITH
Richard E. “Dick” Smith assisted in the development of
Capital Markets in former Soviet Union nations, other Eastern European countries,
and other countries with newly-developing markets. His extensive legal and
operational securities processing background allows him to tailor-fit new
institutions to budding market economies.
Smith has approximately 30 years of securities processing and corporate
governance experience. He worked as an attorney in the US and has approximately
10 years related experience in Moldova, Russia, Romania, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, Montenegro, and Bulgaria.
In 23 years as Counsel and Compliance Officer at Bank of Boston, Smith has
significant expertise in the Securities Processing area of commercial
banking. In addition to the corporate trustee operations, Smith commented
on SEC, IRS, and State Securities directives, and monitored the Bank's compliance
with the rules of all these regulators. Smith earned his J.D. from Harvard
Law School.
