Meet Our Management Team
When Brooks McFeely started MidnightTrader in 1999, he had one goal in mind: To provide superior real-time market news and analytics services to assist active retail and institutional investors trading in the extended-hours market. The company’s subsequent growth and success is the direct result of our steadfast commitment to outstanding customer service, continuous product innovation to meet new needs, unrivaled expertise of our analysts and journalists and the astute leadership from our management team. We’re pleased to meet you!Brooks McFeely
Founder & PresidentBrooks McFeely is MidnightTrader’s founder and president, and is recognized throughout the industry as one of the foremost authorities on extended-hours trading. Brooks founded MidnightTrader in mid-1999, following several years heading up his own financial planning and brokerage firm.
A 1995 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Brooks started his investment career aboard the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower. While serving on the Eisenhower, Brooks earned his certified financial planner (CFP) degree and obtained several NASD securities brokerage licenses. He subsequently started a financial-planning-service-at-sea to help his 5,500 shipmates invest their money wisely.
Toward the end of his Naval career, the SEC lifted several regulatory constraints letting individual investors trade in the extended-hours market for the first time, and Brooks took special interest in learning all he could about extended-hours trading. He noticed that although corporations announce the most significant market-moving news after close of the regular trading day, none of the news services provided coverage of after-hours and pre-market trading. Brooks recognized the opportunity to fill the information gap for the millions of investors beginning to engage in extended-hours trading and started MidnightTrader.
In 2000 Brooks founded black-box trading firm Pearl Investments and in 2003 launched Brochet Capital Partners, LP, a pre-market and after-hours event-driven hedge fund to take advantage of extended-hours trading opportunities identified by MidnightTrader. Today Brooks serves as a managing partner of Brochet Capital Partners.
Brooks’s expert commentary has appeared in leading business media, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, Business Week, Barron's, Dow Jones NewsWire, Reuters, MarketWatch, CNBC and BNN television. Brooks also contributed significantly to The After-Hours Trader, the premiere book about after-hours trading (McGraw-Hill, 2000).
Gerry Tarantino
Chief Financial OfficerGerry Tarantino is MidnightTrader’s chief financial officer. His background includes financial, legal and small-company operations.
After an initial career as a Wall Street securities lawyer, Gerry logged 25 years as an entrepreneur and owner/manager of numerous public and private small and midsized businesses in a variety of industries, including computer software, information technology and Internet services. Gerry also serves as MidnightTrader’s treasurer and secretary and is responsible for all financial, legal, administrative and operational matters. He holds a BA and an LLB from the University of Pennsylvania.
Keith Lanigan
Vice-President of Content and Senior EditorKeith Lanigan is MidnightTrader’s vice-president of content and its senior editor. His background includes a decade-long career in the news/communications business.
After an initial stint as a reporter for a daily New York newspaper covering a wide array of subjects and beats, Keith covered financial news at a publication focused on mergers and acquisitions. He wrote and edited stories about domestic M&A activity, distressed securities and deal arbitrage. Prior to joining MidnightTrader in 2000, he was a media-relations executive at financial communications firm Stern & Co. Keith holds a BA from the University of Scranton in communications and journalism.