OVERVIEW OF SEC WATCH




About SEC Watch


Investors are simply overwhelmed by the amount of information released by public companies, and making sense of it represents a formidable task. Every day thousands of documents are filed with the SEC that reveal the inner workings of companies and directly impact your investments. When Tyco paid a director $10 million for arranging an introduction and AIG stated it had close to $63 billion in exposure to US sub-prime mortgages through their AIGFP division, this information was disclosed in SEC filings; it was public and visible for all to see. These types of important textual details are far too often overlooked.
SEC Watch empowers investors to harvest this goldmine of information with proprietary tools for highlighting and annotating filings, managing collaborative research among teams, and crowd sourcing to find overlooked details. In focusing on the textual analysis of SEC filings rather than numerical data, SEC Watch fills a long-running void in the financial research marketplace.
Until now, reading and working with SEC filings involved outdated technologies, confusing databases, and unruly document formats. Now, SEC Watch gives you unprecedented research capabilities, making it significantly easier to navigate filings, and to identify and discuss the information that matters most. SEC Watch offers powerful, easy-to-use tools that reduce your time spent searching for meaningful information while increasing the quality of what you find.

Executive Team

Jason Zucchetto, CEO

Jason Zucchetto has been an avid investor since the age of 12. Prior to founding SEC Watch, he was the technical lead at a popular online publishing company, SmartBrief, where he created technologies to manage and summarize large amounts of information for several million subscribers. Before joining the online publishing world, Jason held a software development position at America Online and worked on large infrastructure projects. Jason holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park.


Christopher Auer, CTO

Chris Auer has been developing web sites and web applications for 9 years. Chris began his professional career working as a systems integrator and system architect for a DoD/DoT contractor. Chris was responsible for design, implementation and maintenance of Service Oriented Architectures for multiple government contracts including the DISA NextGen contract which showcased the next generation of time sensitive targeting application for the DoD. Chris began working with Jason at SmartBrief in 2007 as a Java Developer. Chris holds a B.S. from the George Mason University.



Advisors

Michelle Leder, Founder of Footnoted.org

Michelle Leder first became interested in SEC filings early in her career, while writing about a small Florida bank that was engaged in aggressive accounting during the last real estate boom. As a reporter, and later editor, she spent 10 years at daily newspapers in Florida, Connecticut and New York. As a freelance business journalist, her work has appeared in BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Portfolio and Slate, among others. Leder has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, the Today Show and has been quoted in dozens of newspapers both in the US and abroad, about digging into SEC filings. Financial Fine Print (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) is her first book. She holds a degree in Economics from Brandeis University. She blogs from footnoted.org world headquarters in Peekskill, NY, where she lives with her husband, Scott, and dog, Kumara, whom she has trained to dig through SEC filings.


Aron Miodownik, President, Cambrian Associates

Aron Miodownik is the Founder of Cambrian Associates, a New York-based advisory firm focusing on the intersection of the technology and financial markets. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry specializing in sales, research, equities, operations, technology and risk. Mr. Miodownik has held CIO and COO positions working with firms such as Merrill Lynch and UBS. Cambrian specializes in company and market analysis, strategic business development, research, restructuring programs, due diligence and technology strategy. Previously, Mr. Miodownik was a senior manager at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) operating in Europe and Russia. He is also the Executive Chairman of CorrectNet, a board member for SciVantage and Folio Dynamics, and an advisory board member for FSO, Merrick's Capital and Alphacet.



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