Instructor

Paul Bard

Practical Experience:

Our guest speaker is Paul Bard, Vice President at Renaissance Capital LLC, a global IPO-focused research, money management and indexing firm. Paul is responsible for the company’s research department and has been with Renaissance since 1998. He has covered over 500 companies for Renaissance Capital’s institutional client base, including well-known brands such as Google, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Seagate Technology and Wynn Resorts. He is frequently quoted in the financial press including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg Radio, Business Week, Financial Times and Forbes. Mr. Bard holds a BS in Finance and Economics from New York University, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Renaissance Capital, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Greenwich, CT, is the leading provider of independent research on newly public companies. The Firm provides independent research to major institutional investors through its IPO Intelligence research service. Individual investors can access the Firm's aftermarket research through the renaissancecapital.com website and through major Wall Street brokers including Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. Renaissance Capital maintains the FTSE Renaissance IPO Composite Index (Bloomberg: “IPOS”), the definitive benchmark of IPO performance, and manages the only mutual fund, the IPO Plus Aftermarket Fund (“IPOSX”), that specializes in investing in newly public companies. Renaissance Capital’s analysts frequently appear on TV and are quoted by financial publications including CNBC, CNN, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and the Firm’s IPO content is relied upon by leading financial news outlets, such as Dow Jones and USA Today. Renaissance Capital is the author of IPOs for Everyone, the definitive book on investing in IPOs.