Dow Jones Adds Senior Energy Analyst and Veteran Financial Services Reporters to Investment Banking Editorial Team
10 Décembre 2009 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones & Company today
announced the appointments of Edward Tan, Greg Millman and Jacob
Plieth to Dow Jones Investment Banker's dedicated editorial team,
which offers in-depth opinion and analysis on global industries and
the topics essential to bankers and analysts, including M&A,
capital raising, regulatory changes, and venture-capital and
private-equity financing. Edward Tan joins as a senior columnist
based in the New York newsroom, focusing on energy, natural
resources and industrials. Greg Millman joins as a senior columnist
based in Hong Kong covering Asian financial services, and Jacob
Plieth joins as a columnist writing on pharmaceuticals, energy and
chemicals, working out of the London newsroom. "In adding Edward,
Greg and Jacob to our global team we are continuing to tap some of
the most experienced and knowledgeable minds in the financial world
to add fresh perspective to our investment banking coverage," said
Adam Smallman, global managing editor for investment banking
solutions at Dow Jones. "Edward, Greg and Jacob will use their
extensive experience and expertise in the financial services,
energy, utilities, pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors to provide
unique perspective, deeper coverage and increased analysis and
opinion on the topics critical to our investment banker
readership." Mr. Tan brings 35 years of banking and analyst
experience on Wall Street in the oil, natural gas, utilities and
industrials space. Mr. Tan joins Dow Jones from Moody's Investors
Service where he served as a senior analyst and vice president of
the energy and utilities team for eight years. While at Moody's
Investors Service he was also the author of Moody's rating
methodology for North American regulated gas companies. Prior to
that he worked for 24 years at Bank of America, where his last role
was managing director, structured trade finance, following a credit
and marketing role in oil and gas. Mr. Tan has an MBA in finance
and international business from New York University's Stern School
of Business and a bachelor's in international relations from Yale
University. He is also fluent in French and Spanish. Mr. Millman
brings to Dow Jones 20 years of financial writing experience, as a
journalist as well as an author. His articles on corporate finance
and risk management have appeared in various international
publications including Barron's, Financial Executive magazine, the
Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Millman has also
authored several books, including The Floating Battlefield:
Corporate Strategies in the Currency Wars; The Vandals Crown: How
Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks; The Day
Traders: The Untold Story of the Extreme Investors and How They
Changed Wall Street Forever; and Home Schooling: A Family's
Journey. Before taking up writing full time, Mr. Millman was a
business analyst involved in strategic planning for project finance
and technology transfer deals in China with the Eisenberg Corp,
Asia Editor of the Business International newsletter at Business
International Corp, a relationship officer on the Korea desk at
Bankers Trust, and editor of the American Chamber of Commerce's
magazine in Taipei. Mr. Millman has an MBA from Olin Business
School at Washington University and a master's in Asian studies
from Washington University. He is fluent in Mandarin, French,
German, Spanish and Latin. Mr. Plieth joins Dow Jones from Edison
Investment Research, where he'd been a biotechnology analyst for
two years. Prior to that, he was a news editor at Scrip
Pharmaceutical News, where he won an Informa award for "Best Scoop"
for his coverage of the investor battle for control of SkyePharma.
He has a B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of London. All
three appointments are effective immediately. Mr. Millman and Mr.
Plieth will report to Adam Smallman. Mr. Tan will report to Arindam
Nag, deputy managing editor for investment banking solutions at Dow
Jones. For more information about Dow Jones solutions for
investment bankers, visit
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