Nat Guild, Concord MA, has been directly involved in the investment business since 1983 with an emphasis on special situations, option strategies and short selling. He is an expert in the critical analysis of competitve business strategies and the early identification of distressed companies. He has worked as a public accountant at Coopers and Lybrand and co-authored The Public Manager's Handbook (Cram, 1981). He graduated from Harvard College and received his Masters in Corporate Strategy and New Technical Ventures from M.I.T. with a perfect grade point average in only twelve months.

Nat is responsible for building and maintaining the proprietary research data base which uncovers short candidates prior to general perceptions of overpricing and that drives much of the subsequent research effort. He manages much of the search work and produces the analysis of a firm's competitive strategy and its financial condition.

Mike Long, Charlotte NC, has been in the investment business since 1974 and has been focusing on hedging and short selling since 1990. He graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in economics, and then founded the first managed futures department at Shearson, where he was a Director of Hayden Commodities. He later worked for Millburn Partners as Director of Trading where he became involved with alternative investments. He has written numerous articles about short selling and the short interest issue, for various publications including Barrons (where he first hypothesized that heavily shorted stocks underperform the market) The Financial Times Global Guide to Investment, and the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Mike is actively involved in the fields of competitive intelligence, library science and investigative journalism. He has experience with Freedom of Information Act requests, maintains good contacts with regulators and class action attorneys and has undergone training in elicitation technique. He is responsible for the bulk of the investigative work, fact checking, and client contact.

For further information contact:

Mike Long
704 543 4880

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Suite B Box 301
4100 Carmel road
Charlotte, NC 28226