Brian D. Egger

Brian Egger is the author of Social Media Strategies for Investing (Adams Media). He is a Senior Industry Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence and can be followed on Twitter @eggernomics. Earlier in his career, Brian was a nationally-ranked stock analyst at Credit Suisse and BMO Capital Markets. He held four team positions, including two second-place rankings, in Institutional Investor's "All-America Research Team." He was also recognized six times as a Wall Street Journal "Best on the Street" analyst.

During a twenty-year career on Wall Street, Brian held positions of increasing responsibility as an equity analyst at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BMO Capital Markets, and Topeka Capital Markets. He served as Associate Director of Research at BMO and Director of Research at the Institutional Research Group. An experienced lecturer, Brian taught securities analysis to MBA students as an Adjunct Finance Professor at Columbia Business School. He received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.