Meet the Wallstrip Team · The Wallstrip Players

See What’s Being Said About Wallstrip

“Everywhere I turn…Wallstrip. Has to be one of the fastest brand-awareness ramps I’ve ever seen.” - Henry Blodget – Cherry Hill Research / InternetOutsider

“The Suze Orman skit is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.” - Pat Friel - Wallstrip Viewer

Inside Wallstrip.com - Financial Post interview with Howard Lindzon

“Its ‘Squawk Box’ meets ‘Saturday Night Live’” - The New York Times

“A sassy new investment show for generation YouTube” - BusinessWeek

“I had little interest in the stockmarket before Wallstrip…now I’m hooked!” - Cammy - Wallstrip Viewer

“This is a riot! Cramer as Dr. Phil!” - Dylan Ratigan - Host of CNBC’s Fast
Money

“When I showed it to Jim (Cramer) today - he was crying with laughter - Dylan
Ratigan” - Host of CNBC Fast Money

“You have created a very cool product…” - CNBC Executive Producer

“A parody that seems to have been done with good humor and a sense of
appreciation for the underlying subject” - Barry Ritholz - The Big Picture

“Funniest Cramer Parody EVER!” - Fly on Wall Street

“I’m hooked…your shows have all the wit, humor and sophisticated insights that are lacking in cable/network shows.” - Garry Golden, Wallstrip Viewer

“Love your site, can’t believe I’m only now just finding it.” - Kevin Depew -
editor of Minyanville.com

“Cult video blog RocketBoom has been joined by a new competitor in the daily
three-minute online video market.” - Will Head - vnunet.com

“Wallstrip is a daily show that highlights one public company each day. Today
it’s Adobe day. The videos are short, funny and snarky.” - The Boston Globe

“But Wallstrip has gone beyond showing a pretty talking head tapping keys,
flailing arms, and mugging for the camera. Adam Elend and Jeff Marks have
produced 22 original and watchable shows in their first month.” - Frank
Barnako - CBS Marketwatch

“Now video blogging has come to Wall Street. Wallstrip, a financial site
tracking various stocks is a mostly worthy affair.” - John Gapper - The
Financial Times

“I’ve gotten more email and IMs from this interview than from my last 10 CNBC
appearances combined. craziness! and high quality, of course.” - Dave Kansas -
Editor - Wall Street Journal

How can you not write about wallstrip? - Om Malik - GigaOM

Meet the Wallstrip Team

Co-Creators and Executive Producers

Adam Elend and Jeff Marks are Executive Producers for original content at CBS Interactive. In 2006 they founded BrightRED Pictures, the web video production company that produced Wallstrip. Prior to that, they produced and directed the feature documentary Fighting for Life in the Death-Belt (2005). Adam and Jeff met in film school at Florida State University (class of 1998) and have been partners ever since.

Founder and Co-creator

Howard Lindzon is the founder of Lindzon & Associates, an investment advisor in Phoenix, Arizona. Lindzon & Associates is also the general partner of Lindzon Capital Partners, a fund of funds which started in 1998. Prior to Lindzon & Associates, Howard was the Chief Operating Officer at Pro-Innovative Concepts, a promotional products company, from 1994-1997. In 2003, Howard started Access Capital Management with John Cundari in Toronto, Canada. Access represents best of breed hedge fund managers from around the world. The managers specialize in varying strategies including global macro and managed futures and fund of funds. Access utilizes a systematic approach to money management. Howard has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Ontario, an M.B.A. from Arizona State University and an M.I.M. from the Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management. He was born in Toronto and lives in Phoenix with a loyal wife (11 years, 12.5 Canadian), two awesome kids and a dachshund.

Check out Howard’s visit to the Wallstrip studio.

Host

Julie Alexandria is a New York based actress originally from Orange County, CA. Hosting credits include Time Out New York on Demand, Starz!, Heavy.com, Vh1, Nintendo World, E! Entertainment, Fast Lane Daily, and the upcoming “Beer Money” on SNY Network. A die hard sci fi fan, she enjoys playing dress up in “Princess Leia’s gold bikini” (on weekends).

Julie can be reached at julie@wallstrip.com.

Senior Producer/Show Runner

Scott Solary is an indie filmmaker turned web video maven. He lives it, he breathes it, he loves it. Watch the show. Show some love.

Web Producer

Sean Tice manages Wallstrip.com and the development and distribution of the show’s web presence. He blogs about interesting developments in web trends here.

Senior Shooter/Editor

Roman Bodnar is an enigma; as charming as he is coarse, as seductive as he is repulsive. He would like to thank all of his supporters for “teaching me how to love”.

Senior Shooter/Editor

Appolos Laurient, the God of visual artistry. Forged from the County of Kings in the 20th century 80AD. The purveyor of lights, camera, action.

Writer/Story Editor

Amanda Elend has been writing for Wallstrip since January 2007. She enjoys forks and spouting random feminist rants.

Shooter/Editor

When you’ve loved and you’ve lost like Terrence Elenteny has, then you know what life is about.

Shooter/Editor

Sean R. Smith
A Winter Park, Florida native, Sean R. Smith attended the University of Kansas and received his BFA in Visual Art in 2007. Now, he enjoys long subway rides, the smells in China Town and taking advantage of the CBS Corporate benefits!

Production & Office Assistant

Katie Ainslie
Is this the real Katie Ainslie? Known from Seattle to LA to New York, a woman of many alias’, a.k.a.’s, and code names, she has recently found her way from the internet superhighway to Wallstrip. Around five feet seven, with longish hair, she loves polaroids, green screens, and finding obscure artifacts around NYC for Wallstrip shows. Her true identity will be revealed in due time.

Wardrobe Stylist

Jennifer Kirschman is a wardrobe stylist and costume designer who has worked in both LA and NYC on films, theater and, now, on the web. She enjoys shopping, designing and sewing ‘for profit’ and can be contacted at jdkirschman@hotmail.com. Jennifer’s website is coming soon…

Web Production Assistant

Adam Bedient

Blogger

Brian Shannon is a full time private trader from Denver, CO. Brian also writes the AlphaTrends blog which provides in-depth technical analysis videos each day. Brian has previously worked as a hedge fund manager and propretary trader. His trading style is based on multiple timeframe analysis for trades which typlically last from 1-10 days.