Michael Moe is a founding partner of ThinkPanmure and the Chief Investment Officer of ThinkCapital Management, LLC. He was formerly Director of Global Growth Stock Research and a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1998, Michael was a Senior Managing Director and Director of Growth Stock Strategy at Montgomery Securities. Michael has been named to Institutional Investor's "All American" research team and has been awarded "Best on the Street" by The Wall Street Journal. He has also testified in front of the U.S. Congress on the subjects of education technology, the new economy and initial public offerings, and he has also appeared before the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. Michael is frequently cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for his opinions on growth companies. Michael also appears regularly on financial programs on CNBC and CNN and is a contributor to the AlwaysOn Network - a blog site about new media technology and venture capital news. Michael earned his BA in Political Science and Economics at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, a member of the San Francisco Analyst Society, on the Board of Directors for the National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame, and is a past advisor for the Center for Innovation. In 2007 he published his first book, Finding The Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the Hot Stocks of Tomorrow.