Andrew Corn is the executive vice president and chief investment officer of the Equities Beacon Trust Company (www.beacontrust.com) Mr. Corn runs the equity investment team at Beacon Trust managing six long only strategies and a long/short fund. He also serves on the senior management team of Beacon Trust and reports to his former Chairman Fred Fraenkel who is now Vice Chairman at Beacon Trust Company.

Prior to joining Beacon Trust Company, Corn was the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Clear Asset Management. He developed the vision and premise of the firm's multifactor models, investment process, and trading strategy. Until May 2004, he was SVP of TheStreet.com and its institutional broker-dealer subsidiary, Independent Research Group Inc.

Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Citigate, Inc. From 1989 until 2000, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Admaster Communications, a specialty financial communications firm, and MasterApproach, an investment industry focused software developer. Both were sold in 2001 to Citigate. As CEO of Admaster, Mr. Corn consulted on product development and marketing for institutional money managers, mutual funds, investment banks, pension consultants, and brokerages. He also co-founded and sold a magazine publishing firm as well as a custom applications and web solutions firm. Mr. Corn is a former board member of Junior Achievement of NY and Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and guest analyst in the financial media. The views expressed on this blog are Mr. Corn’s and are not reviewed by Beacon Trust Company or its affiliates.

Visit his blog: Beacon Ideas (www.beaconideas.com)