David Riedel is the founder and President of Riedel Research Group, which provides independent equity research focusing on emerging markets Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Prior to founding this firm, David worked as an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney in New York and Bangkok. While overseas, he supervised a twelve-person research team covering telecommunications companies and other industries in Southeast Asia. While in New York, he covered business services stocks, including staffing and outsourcing, as well as small-cap growth companies in the automobile and motorsports industries.

David is also the author of Finding the Hot Spots: 10 Strategies for Global Investing ...More (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFinding-Hot-Spots-Strategies-Investing%2Fdp%2F0471773778%2Fsr%3D11-1%2Fqid%3D1166113178&tag=seekingalpha-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) (Wiley, August 2006).

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