Lou Basenese is a well-known thought leader and advocate for young technology companies with promising intellectual property. He regularly shares his insights with national media outlets including FOX Business, Reuters, CNBC, and Yahoo! Finance. He brings decades of experience as a public venture investor and independent analyst, as well as a marketing, communications, investor, and public relations professional. As president and chief market strategist at MDB Capital, Mr. Basenese focuses on leveraging the firm’s unique and proven process to elevate new technology companies into market leaders and establish public ventures as a vital asset class to a much wider community of investors.
Prior to joining MDB Capital, Mr. Basenese served as founder and chief analyst for Disruptive Tech Research, an independent equity research and advisory firm focusing exclusively on disruptive technology companies. He also co-founded one of the web’s largest financial publishers with a daily circulation of more than 700,000 investors and served as an investment consultant for an institutional investment consulting practice with over $2 billion in assets at Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Basenese received a B.A. from the University of Florida and an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. He currently serves on the board of directors of Endra Life Sciences (NDRA) and The Roberto Clemente Health Clinic.
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