CHARLES GOLDBLUM, CFA, is the President and Founder of Hurley Capital, LLC. Mr. Goldblum has more than 15 years of investment experience in equities, fixed income and commodities. He worked as an Equity Research Analyst at SG Cowen Securities Corporation, CIBC World Markets Inc. and First Union Securities, specializing in technology companies. Before First Union, Mr. Goldblum was a copper and nickel trader for Trafigura, Marc Rich + Co. AG and Glencore International AG, and he was based in New York City, Moscow and Switzerland. He also worked at Hurley Group, a family-owned industrial/commercial real estate development firm with investments throughout Connecticut, and as an Adviser to Emancipation Capital, a tech-focused, value-oriented hedge fund. Mr. Goldblum majored in English and German Area Studies at Tufts University.