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Managing Director, Equity Research
Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.
Eric Wold is a Managing Director, Equity Research at Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., where he is responsible for covering the Restaurant and Specialty Consumer sectors. He joined the firm in March 2002. For 2004, Mr. Wold was ranked number two in the nation by both The Wall Street Journal's "Best on the Street" and the Forbes/StarMine surveys for the Restaurant industry.
Prior to joining Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., Mr. Wold served as Director of Corporate Finance with NightFire Software, a privately-held telecommunications software company based in Oakland, California. In this capacity, he oversaw the company's corporate finance activities, including a Series D equity financing and multiple debt restructurings. From 1997 through 2000, Mr. Wold served as Vice President and Senior Research Analyst at First Security Van Kasper, where he was responsible for the Restaurant and Branded Consumer sectors. Prior to Van Kasper, Mr. Wold began his career on the buy-side with Research Analyst positions with both Polynous Capital Management (a hedge fund that he co- founded in 1996) and GT Global Financial Services.
Mr. Wold received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1997 and a BS in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley. | 