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ABOUT
STP ADVISORY SERVICES
STP Advisory Services, LLC was recently formed to facilitate the work of a diverse team of researchers and advisors with backgrounds centered around finance and economics. Lawyers, entrepreneurs, PhD economists, researchers and writers, each member of the STP Advisory team brings skills that allow us to see news and events in ways that even the best boutique consulting firms can’t accommodate.
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.
We have had the good fortune to work with outstanding individuals, such
as those listed below, to help solve problems and provide answers for
questions in capital markets and real estate to satisfy the demands of
a confidential client list. Contact us today to arrange a review of your
needs for economic analysis or advice on operating efficiently in financial
services. Let STP Advisory Services create your “Dream Team” today!
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 is a Technical Advisor to the California Economic Strategy Panel and Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Dr. Trimbath was formerly Senior Research Economist at the Milken Institute and Senior Advisor on the Russian capital markets project for KPMG. 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.
Dr. Trimbath has authored, edited or contributed chapters to five books, including Mergers and Efficiency: Changes Across Time (2002), Beyond Junk Bonds: Expanding High Yield Markets (2003), and The Savings and Loan Crisis: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure (2004).
Dr. Trimbath holds an MBA in Management from Golden Gate University and received her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 2000. Her research covers mergers and takeovers, real estate asset studies, corporate finance, and capital market development. Her most recent working paper, Settlement Failures in Bond Markets, addresses the $400 billion secret hidden inside the black box of Wall Street’s back office operations.
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.
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 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.
