Emerging Money™ provides insightful and timely information about the increasingly important world of Emerging Market investments. CNBC Emerging Markets Contributor Tim Seymour leads the team of Emerging Money to bring you cutting edge global news and analysis.
Tim Seymour
Tim is a founder of Emerging Money™. He is a founder and Managing Partner at Triogem Asset Management, and The Emerging Markets Contributor to CNBC. Triogem Asset Management focuses on investing throughout the global emerging markets asset class. With a view that emerging and developing economies will continue to outpace the economic growth and advancement of developed economies, Seymour has devoted a career to investing in the dominant markets of tomorrow, today. Seymour’s career has included significant experience in both alternative asset management (hedge funds) and capital markets, having launched two hedge funds, and built the largest Russian broker dealer in the USA.
Seymour started his career at UBS, focusing on international credit (cash, swaps, forex) in a specialized hedge fund group (New York). Seymour completed the firm’s training program after graduating with an MBA in international finance from Fordham University. Seymour received his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University.
Brian Morse
Brian is a founder of Emerging Money™. Morse has extensive experience in operations, marketing, financial planning and strategic development. He has worked to grow and develop a number of small companies including: online education, employment training, enterprise solutions for federal and local governments, content delivery network solutions, motion picture distribution and medical devices. Morse also directed Business Development for Bank Rate Monitor – www.bankrate.com – an online publisher of personal finance rate information.
Mr. Morse completed his MBA in finance at UC Irvine, and attended Georgetown University earning degrees in government and history.
Bernard Sucher
Bernie Sucher is an analyst and advisor for Emerging Money™ and has lived and worked in Russian capital markets since their beginnings. After nearly two decades of building and leading businesses in Russia, Bernie is a trusted advisor to some of the region’s leading commercial and non-profit organizations. Today, Bernie is a non-executive director responsible for the strategic development of Aton, Russia’s oldest independent investment bank. He serves on the board of directors of the PBN Company, the region’s leading international specialist in strategic communications. In May 2011, he was elected to the board and audit committee of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, one of Russia’s industrial icons.
Bernie’s career in finance began in New York in 1984 with EF Hutton. He then took on various sales and management positions with specialist broker Cresvale and later Goldman Sachs, working in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 1993, inspired by the overthrow of Communism, Bernie moved to Russia. He co-founded and then over nine years helped to build investment bank Troika Dialog, the domestic market leader recently acquired by Sberbank. From 2002, Bernie oversaw the restructuring and re-launch of Alfa Capital, one of Russia’s first-ever asset management firms. And from 2007 to 2010, he led Merrill Lynch’s profitable re-entry into Russia, becoming country head following the firm’s acquisition by Bank of America.
While Bernie continues to live in Russia, he has begun to dedicate more energy and resources to entrepreneurship and public service initiatives in the US. He has become involved with www.nationbuilder.com, an internet-based organizational platform that increases substantially the punching power of grassroots political efforts.
Drawing on lessons in community work in Russia as well as learning in social entrepreneurship as a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Bernie has become a supporter of Detroit’s Imagination Station, facethestation.com and the initial financial backer of its ally, Loveland Technologies, www.makeloveland.com. He is as regional advisor in Detroit for Venture for America, an initiative aimed at encouraging high-performing university graduates to work in new enterprises in distressed urban areas.
Bernie holds a BA from the University of Michigan (1983) and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Senior Executive Program (2001).
Scott Martin
Scott brings 15 years of financial journalism perspective to his role as content producer at Emerging Money™. He has served as head market writer for CNNfn.com (now money.cnn.com), editor of Buyside and as a contributor or contributing editor to various publications including Institutional Investor, ALPHA, Money, Business Information (Thailand) and the Wall Street Reporter. On the web, he worked closely with Lou Dobbs and company to create the aerospace industry and entertainment channels of SPACE.com, building and managing an extensive content production team in the process.
He holds a BA in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from Williams College.