Chad Brand is the founder and President of Peridot Capital Management LLC, a registered investment advisory firm specializing in customized personal finance and investment management services for individuals.

Chad’s blog, Peridot Capitalist, has been named one of the top investment blogs by the likes of Forbes.com (Best of the Web 2006), Capital Magazine (Best U.S. investment blogs), and 24/7 Wall Street (Top 25 investment blogs) since he began blogging in 2004. He has done interviews on various companies and industries with the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg, Business Week, and Forbes. Chad’s blog is often referenced on various investment web sites including Forbes.com, Seeking Alpha, TheDeal.com, and TheStreet.com.

After the 2000-2002 bear market depleted many investors’ brokerage accounts, the outrage among individuals was overwhelming. Most of the disgust was aimed at mutual funds and stock brokers who had gotten carried away with tech stocks and had abandoned crucial investment disciplines such as diversification and valuation analysis. In 2002, Mr. Brand founded Pittsburgh-based Peridot Capital Management in order to open his knowledge base and asset management services to those outside his immediate family.

Chad received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Washington University in St. Louis and has passed both the NASD Series 7 General Securities Representative exam and the Series 65 Uniform Investment Advisor exam. Prior to managing money full-time, he worked in the corporate finance department at Express Scripts (ESRX), a $45 billion per year healthcare services and management company.

Chad has been featured in various business publications, including a 2006 front page story in The Wall Street Journal which discussed the future prospects for Google. In late 2008, Brand was included in the BusinessWeek Annual Investment Outlook issue, where he highlighted worldwide beer leader Anheuser Busch InBev as a bargain at $21 per share and the stock subsequently rose by more than 120% in less than a year. Chad has spoken regularly at the University of Missouri (Columbia) Business School, as a guest lecturer to both undergraduate and MBA level students.

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