Stephen is the Chief Analyst at RiskHedge. He combines long-term prudent optimism, a deep research network, and proven risk-management strategies into a unique investing framework that has helped 40,000+ readers and counting profit from progress.

“I grew up in inner city Dublin without a dad. Not great. Books, good teachers, and technology saved my life. But maybe more than anything optimism saved my life. Believing there was a better life if you worked hard and tried to achieve.”

In 2018, Stephen co-founded RiskHedge with Dan Steinhart from a coffee shop in Vermont. Stephen has lived on four continents and currently splits his time between the US and Ireland.

For media inquiries and podcast appearances, email media@riskhedge.com.

Reach Stephen at stephen@riskhedge.com.

Chris Wood is the Chief Investment Strategist at RiskHedge. He has a long track record of identifying winning stocks early—including Google and Amazon in 2012, and Nvidia in 2013.

Prior to his career as a professional analyst, Chris played running back for the Cotton Bowl champion Longhorn football team at the University of Texas. His academic background includes bachelor’s degrees in economics and finance, and an MBA with a concentration in finance.

Chris runs our popular microcap investment advisory, Project 5X. He also coedits Disruption Investor, our flagship advisory, with Chief Analyst Stephen McBride.

Dan is co-founder of RiskHedge, an investment research firm founded in 2018 on the idea of prudent optimism. He has served as publisher/editorial director for multiple financial research companies.

Dan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), having formerly specialized in Private Equity and Hedge Funds at a “Big 4” accounting firm. He leans closer to the “prudent” side of prudent optimism, which probably has something to do with having started his career in September 2008 on Wall Street.

Reach Dan at dan@riskhedge.com.

Justin is RiskHedge’s Chief Trader. He trades with his own money and writes about it in order to help RiskHedge subscribers be better traders. He’ll trade anything—stocks, bonds, gold, oil, real estate, crypto, Japanese yen... If it can make money, it’s on his radar.

Justin’s unique and disciplined approach to trading has guided RiskHedge readers to profitable opportunities since 2019.

Justin holds his Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics from Loyola University in New Orleans. Originally from Omaha, Justin is a “digital nomad” who’s visited 19 countries and counting.

As Executive Editor, Chris guides RiskHedge’s analyst team to clearly express unique ideas. A 10-year veteran of the investment research industry, he’s worked closely with some of the brightest minds in all of finance.

Chris holds his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication & Journalism from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

When not working, Chris enjoys golfing and spending time with his family in South Florida.

As a Managing Editor at RiskHedge, Jen helps the analyst team put their best ideas to paper. She’s spent nearly a decade in the investment research industry working with some of the best experts in the field. 

Jen holds a Professional Writing degree from York College of Pennsylvania. When she’s not wrangling copy, she enjoys painting, reading, and traveling to new places.

As a RiskHedge Analyst, Alex supports the whole team by studying the markets and researching public companies to determine the best opportunities for our RiskHedge subscribers.

Alex holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems with a focus in business intelligence, from Florida Atlantic University.

While in college, Alex coded his own math puzzle application for Android, which combined his two passions: pattern recognition and numbers.

After graduating, he went on to use these two passions to develop his very own stock picking system, focusing on biotech IPOs.

In 2012, along with Olivier Garret and best-selling author John Mauldin, David co-founded Mauldin Economics and continues as an active partner.

David Galland has enjoyed a long and varied career in investment research and financial services, including serving as the conference director for the world’s largest investment conference (National Committee for Monetary Reform, 1979 to 1987), as financial newsletter editor and publisher (Gold Newsletter, Aden Analysis, Wealth Magazine among many others), as a founding partner and director of a successful mutual fund group (Blanchard Group of Funds), and as a founding partner and executive vice-president for EverBank, one of the earliest and most successful online banks.

After selling his interest in EverBank in 2004, David partnered with Doug Casey to form Casey Research, LLC, an international investment research and publishing firm, which grew to serve a client base of over 200,000 individuals before being acquired by Stansberry Research.

Reflecting his belief in the importance of strategic diversification, David and his family divide their time between Stowe, Vermont and La Estancia de Cafayate (www.LaEst.com), the Argentine sporting and lifestyle estate he helped create.

From 2007- 2015, Olivier was CEO and Partner of Casey Research, a publisher of financial research focused on the resource sector. Olivier successfully sold the company in May of 2015. 

He is also a founding Partner of Mauldin Economics and Garret/Galland Research, two leading publishers of financial research geared to individual investors and institutions. 

In 2012, he launched the Hard Assets Alliance, a revolutionary trading platform for precious metal investors. In addition, Olivier is managing partner of three hedge funds invested in the resource sector.

Prior to joining Casey Research in January 2007, Olivier was a principal in Kemp Management, a management consulting firm focused on merger & acquisition, restructuring, and turnaround activities for a variety of private equity firms and financial institutions. In this capacity, he led and participated in dozens of merger & acquisition and restructuring deals in a variety of industries.

During the 1990s, Olivier was CEO and general manager of a number of industrial businesses ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to divisions of a Fortune 500 company.

He earned an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and a Masters in Business from the Université de Paris IX-Dauphine.