Kirk Lindstrom has an engineering degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Following 20 years of research and development as a scientist and engineer at Hewlett Packard, Kirk turned his attention to investments where he edits "Kirk Lindstrom's Investment Letter," that includes a newsletter portfolio he started in September 1998.

Since 12/31/98 "Kirk's Newsletter Explore Portfolio" is UP 126% vs. S&P500 DOWN 2.4% vs. NASDAQ down 8.6% (All through 8/7/09)

More info & a FREE Sample Issue at:

http://kirklindstrom.blogspot.com

Kirk has written about and helped individuals learn to manage their investments since the early 1990's. For over a decade, Kirk edited "Investing and Personal Finance (http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/kirk)" at Suite101, one of the first investment web sites on the Internet. Kirk took-off on his own in late 2006 and early 2007 to write "Kirk's Market Thoughts (http://kirklindstrom.blogspot.com/)", co-found "The Retirement Advisor (http://www.theretirementadvisor.net/index.php)" newsletter and several other successful web sites.

Kirk continues his decade plus tradition of helping others learn to invest wisely with his free Facebook group, "Investing for the Long Term" at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2267714264

Kirk also moderates a Facebook forum for ECRI to answer questions

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2267714264&topic=6119

Working with ECRI, Kirk will occasionally condense ECRI's subscriber articles for public posting on his blog:

http://kirklindstrom.blogspot.com/search/label/ECRI