
Andrew Melnick
Mr. Melnick retired from Wall Street at the end of 2005 after 35 years starting as an investment analyst and then later serving in senior research management positions. Most recently, he was a Senior Managing Director of the hedge fund PSD Capital. Prior to this role, he joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 2002 to be Co-Director of Global Investment Research Division and a member of the Management Committee and he later served as an Advisory Director.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Securities and Economics Research Group for Merrill Lynch. During his 13 years at Merrill Lynch, he expanded the Firm's Research Group from primarily a domestic effort to one with research offices in 26 countries around the world. During that period Merrill Lynch was ranked as the top research department in nearly all regions of the world including six straight times as the number one equity research department in the United States.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he was President of Woolcott & Co. a boutique research and investment banking firm. From 1981 to 1986, Andy Melnick was Director of Research and a Partner of L.F. Rothschild Unterberg Towbin. Before joining that firm, he had been a Senior Analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert for 11 years. Mr. Melnick served in Vietnam and was a graduate of Rutgers, earning a B.A. in Economics and M.B.A. in Finance from that institution. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.).

