Donna Soave

Finance

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Ms. Soave serves as Head of Equity Research for Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., bringing ten years of business development, strategy, marketing, and general management experience.
Prior to joining Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., Ms. Soave spent eight years at Cisco Systems, Inc., most recently as the founder and director of thought leadership.
In this role Ms. Soave focused on Cisco's corporate positioning and branding strategy by articulating and validating the company's overall value proposition and its leadership in the market through compelling research.
Ms. Soave also held a variety of other senior positions at Cisco in Corporate Marketing, including responsibility for global publishing.
Ms. Soave holds a Bachelors of Arts in Comparative Literature and Psychology from Dartmouth College where she was a Presidential Scholar, completed law and business courses at Harvard and Stanford, and received a variety of certifications from MIT's Sloan School of Business including an eBusiness MBA.
Ms. Soave also served on the Board of Directors at MIT's Sloan Center for eBusiness, has a U.S.
Sailing Skipper Certification and is fluent in Italian and proficient in German, French, and Spanish.

Former positions of Donna Soave

Companies	Position	End
Merriman Capital, Inc. Merriman Capital, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.	Director of Research - Equity	2006-06-29

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