Brooks McFeely
Founder & President

Brooks McFeely is the founder of MidnightTrader, Inc. (www.MidnightTrader.com), the leading provider of extended-hours market news and corporate event impact analysis. McFeely founded MidnightTrader in mid 1999 after some years at the helm of his own financial planning and brokerage firm. He is also a managing partner of Brochet Capital Partners, LP (www.BrochetCapital.com) a Washington, DC based hedge fund.

A 1995 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, McFeely started his investment career while serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower. McFeely earned his degree as a certified financial planner (CFP), along with getting several NASD securities brokerage licenses, while serving on the Eisenhower. He subsequently started a "financial planning service at sea," able to help his 5,500 shipmates invest their money wisely. Toward the end of his Naval service, McFeely took an interest in extended-hours trading as the SEC lifted some regulatory hurdles allowing individual investors to trade before the open and after the close for the first time. Understanding that the most significant market moving corporate news is announced after the close of regular market hours, he noticed that there were no other news services providing coverage of after-hours and pre-market trading. McFeely saw an opportunity to fill the information gap for the millions of investors who were beginning to engage in extended-hours trading. This was the inspiration behind the creation of MidnightTrader.

In 2000 and 2003 respectively, McFeely founded Pearl Investments (a black box trading firm) and 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.

Brooks McFeely is widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable sources on extended-hours trading and equity electronic communication networks (ECNs). His commentary has appeared in leading business media such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, Business Week, Barron's, Dow Jones NewsWire, Reuters, MarketWatch, CNBC and BNN television. McFeely was also a significant contributor to The After-Hours Trader, the first book published on after-hours trading (McGraw-Hill, 2000).

Gerry Tarantino
Chief Financial Officer

Gerry Tarantino has a financial, legal and small company operations background. After an initial career as a Wall Street securities lawyer, he has had an additional twenty five years of experience as an entrepreneur and as owner/manager of a range of small and medium sized businesses, both private and public, in diverse areas and industries, including sophisticated software, information technology and the Internet. He also serves as Treasurer and Secretary and is responsible for the Company's 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 Editor

Keith Lanigan has worked in the news/communications business for the past 10 years, first, as a reporter for a daily newspaper in New York covering a wide array of subjects and beats. He then broadened his experience by covering financial news at a publication focused on mergers and acquisitions, where he wrote and edited stories on domestic M&A activity, distressed securities and deal arbitrage. Prior to joining MidnightTrader in July, 2000, he was a media-relations executive at the financial communications firm, Stern & Co. He holds a BA from the University of Scranton in communications/journalism.