Daniel Ives
Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst
Wedbush Securities Inc

Daniel Ives is a Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst covering the Technology sector at Wedbush Securities since 2018. Dan has been a tech analyst on Wall Street for over two decades covering the software and the broader technology sector. He spent the first few years of his career as a financial analyst at HBO and then received his MBA in Finance before becoming a globally known technology equity research analyst and Managing Director with FBR Capital Markets for 16 years, focusing on the enterprise software/hardware sectors including cyber security, cloud computing, big data technology, and the mobile landscape. A major area of his research focus is electric vehicles and disruptive technology over the next decade.

Dan is a highly sought after tech expert around the world, has been a keynote speaker across the US, Europe, and Asia and regularly makes television appearances on networks such as CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and Fox News to provide commentary related to his technology expertise. Dan has also appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, PBS NewsHour, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and CBS Evening News. Dan can be heard regularly doing radio on the tech sector for Bloomberg, ABC News, NPR, BBC, and other radio programs. Dan is often cited globally by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investors Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, NY Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Daily Mail, South China Morning Post, Barrons, The Times of London, Financial Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, and New York Times, among many others.

He holds a BS in Finance from Penn State University and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Daniel Pilling
Senior Research Analyst
Sands Capital Management, LLC

Daniel Pilling is a Senior Research Analyst at Sands Capital Management, LLC, an active, long-term investor in leading innovative business, globally. Mr. Pilling joined Sands Capital in 2018 as a Research Analyst in the Global Technology Sector Team focusing on the semiconductor space, amongst others. Before Sands, he worked at Millennium, Balyasny and Fidelity, focusing on the technology space. Mr. Pilling graduated from Manchester Business School with a BA in Finance and Cambridge University with an MPhil in Finance in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

John K. Freeman
Equity Analyst
Ravenswood Partners

John K. Freeman is an Equity Analyst at Ravenswood Partners, a newly formed global equity asset manager. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Equity Research at CFRA, where he was responsible for fundamental equity research and analysis covering several segments within the Information Technology and Communication Services sectors, including enterprise software and SaaS/cloud providers, Internet advertising/social media platforms, and game developers.

Prior to joining CFRA in 2019, John co-founded Samadhi Capital Partners, an investment advisor and equity research firm where he developed an investment process and framework targeted at tech sector equities, with a particular emphasis on gauging the impact of and identifying the long-term winners from artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and related developments categorized under the larger “cognification of software” mega-trend. Before his entrepreneurial stint, he served as Senior Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Sands Capital Management, responsible for the firm’s investments within the tech sector.

John began his career in equity research with an independent equity research firm, Precursor, where he was ranked as the top analyst covering network equipment stocks among independent research firms. He also spent the first dozen years of his career in various roles within the tech industry. During this time, he published dozens of white papers and research reports on topics ranging from network processors, Virtual LAN (VLAN) technology, and the historical evolution of enterprise application architecture.

John graduated from Harvard University with a BA in East Asian Studies.