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David Siegel

CEO,

Investopedia

About David

David Siegel is a digital media executive with over 18 years of experience leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth and traffic acceleration. He is currently the CEO of Investopedia, the go-to destination investors use to make smarter financial decisions, which currently reaches over 30+ Million monthly visitors. He most recently served as president, Seeking Alpha, a crowdsourced investment research business with over 4 Million registered users. There, he oversaw all U.S.-based functions - sales, marketing, product, and business development. Under his leadership, digital media sales grew by 30% and subscription sales by over 300%.

David's Videos

Successful online finance brands such as Stocktwits, Estimize, iSentium, and others have built entire businesses around harnessing the predictive power of the masses to anticipate market trends. In doing so, they had to avoid the many dangers that surround a poorly created index to create something truly valuable. Will investor-sentiment analysis ever become a widely used factor? How has social media changed the available data and has it resulted in more accurate signals or just a lot more noise? Investopedia CEO David Siegel and panelists will explore these questions to help you profit from investor sentiment and avoid its pitfalls.