As DTN's senior analyst, Darin Newsom provides DTN customers with market insight, analysis and advice on an hourly, daily and weekly basis and oversees all of DTN's market commentary. He is also the creator and guiding force behind DTN's Six Factor Marketing Strategies.

Newsom has 20 years' experience analyzing commodity markets and developing risk-management strategies. He focuses on explaining how the structure of a market -- both technical and fundamental -- and the price relationship between contracts indicates what type of market exists and therefore which strategies are appropriate.

His commentary is also consistently featured on CNBC’s “Morning Call”, The Wall Street Journal MarketBeat Online and multiple newspapers and radio stations throughout the country. Newsom is also a regular guest on the Iowa Public Television Program "Market to Market".

Prior to joining DTN, Newsom was a producer risk-management consultant for FCStone and a grain merchandiser at the Great Bend, Kansas, Cooperative.

Dr. Pirrong previously was the Watson Family Professor of Commodity and Financial Risk Management, and Associate Professor of Finance at Oklahoma State University. He joined the faculty of the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston as Professor of Finance and the Energy Markets Director for Global Energy Management Institute in January, 2003. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Business School, the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago, and the Olin School of Business of Washington University in St. Louis. He holds a Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Chicago.

Professor Pirrong's research focuses on the economics of commodity markets, the relation between market fundamentals and commodity price dynamics, and the implications of this relation for the pricing of commodity derivatives. His recent research is concentrated on the power markets. He has created a power derivatives pricing model that links observable fundamentals (e.g., temperature, loads) to power derivatives prices. Professor Pirrong has also published extensively on the economics of financial exchanges. He has published 30 articles in professional publications and is the author of three books. Professor Pirrong has consulted widely. His clients have included electric utilities, major commodity processors and consumers, and commodity exchanges around the world.

Ed Durkee has overall responsibility for investment results, investment research, business planning and staffing. He has spent over thirty years in the asset-management business, the last twenty of them as chief investment officer of three innovative alternative investment managers. For the last fifteen years he has specialized in portfolio overlay management, using “portable alpha” techniques, for large institutional clients in the U.S. and Europe.

Ed developed the risk-management and alpha-generation methodology offered by POA, including the statistical modeling techniques and the software essential to execution of the process. His long industry experience provides him with a list of relationships critical to the firm's success. Ed has an MBA from Harvard, and a BA from Princeton, magna cum laude.

Dr. Noma is the portfolio manager for the BTOP50 fund, a diversified portfolio of managed futures programs. He is a member of the Investment Committee that oversees all fund of funds investments for Asset Alliance. Dr. Noma is also responsible for the risk oversight of Asset Alliance's single- and multi-manager product offerings.

Prior to joining Asset Alliance, Dr. Noma was Senior Risk Analyst, Fixed Income Products, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (2000-2003). Dr. Noma graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with a BA in Mathematics. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology in 1982 from The University of Michigan. His research has been published in numerous industry journals and scholarly periodicals.

Emil has more than 20 years of experience in the futures industry in the United States and Canada. Additionally, he has been a registered Commodity Trading Advisor since 1997. Previous executive positions held by Emil include Director of Quantitative Futures Analysis at REFCO Global Ltd. LLC, Chicago, and the first Director of Managed Futures for the Bank of Montreal, where he also established the bank's first systematic proprietary trading group while also directing the establishment of the Bank’s portfolio of CTAs.

Emil is currently the President of both Abacus Fund Management LLC, a registered Commodity Pool Operator, and VanKar Trading Corporation, a commodity futures firm Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.  His CTA Commodity Spread Trading program is one of the hottest and most unique trading programs available in the CTA universe.  The success of the program is based on Mr. Van Essen's ability to accurately predict the affects of the Long Only Commodity Funds on the trading behavior of the commodity markets.

While at Bank of Montreal, Emil began developing a Commodity Trading Advisor ("CTA") Selection Model. Over time, this model would become a revolutionary instrument for predicting expected future performance of CTAs.  Under Emil's leadership VanKar Trading Corp and Abacus have continued to develop and refine this innovative model. 
 
Emil has been a member of Mensa, won Awards for achievement in mathematics, and has authored two books on systematic Futures trading.  Emil studied honors mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo.

Mr. Angle’s unique entrée into the financial markets began while working for his father’s oil and gas exploration and production company in the Midwest where he witnessed him make a little more than a 100 million dollars in the gold bull market of 1979.

Intrigued with the opportunities of the futures markets, Mr. Angle started an alternative market newsletter in 1985 which was eventually reported in Forbes Magazine as being one of the best market letters in commodities during 1987.

Mr. Angle relocated to Connecticut in 1991 to be closer to New York City and Europe and eventually expanded his business into designing systematic computerized trading strategies. This effort evolved into asset management using the major markets traded on the major futures exchanges around the world.

Angle, a registered Commodity Trading Advisor who is a member of the National Futures Association and registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commissions has owns two asset management companies, Kelly Angle Inc. and Keck Capital Management LLC, each with their own systematic trading strategy with an 8 and 4 year track record, respectively. Both are designed to produce high absolute rates of return and to provide his clientele with non-correlated performance as compared to stock and bond markets.

Angle is currently designing a short term trading product which will be the back bone of a proprietary trading business he plans to develop and operate in Dublin, Ireland.

Robert W. Hagler established ForestEdge International LLC in 2007 to provide timberland investment portfolio advisory services, and third party transaction evaluations to institutional and high net worth timberland investors. Prior to that, Mr. Hagler held the position of Director for International Investment Strategies and Economic Research at Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG), the largest Timber Investment Management Organization in the world.

Before joining HTRG, Mr. Hagler was the International Portfolio Manager for Prudential Timber Investments. In 1987, he founded Wood Resources International Ltd., to provide consulting services to the international forest products community. Mr. Hagler also worked as a senior consultant with Arthur D. Little Inc., and has led and participated in a wide range of professional work in the forest products industry worldwide. Mr. Hagler has provided consulting and timber investment services within the global forest products industry for 27 years, and is uniquely qualified to provide timberland investment advisory services to potential investors worldwide.

Stephen Bruel is an Analyst in TowerGroup's Securities & Capital Markets practice. He focuses on the strategic impact of technology in the capital markets industry, addressing technology, operations, and business issues. His current research and analysis examines the dramatic changes affecting the investment banking business, including regulatory, client, and technological pressures.

Stephen joins TowerGroup from State Street's Wealth Manager Services (WMS) group, where he focused on supporting and expanding the suite of technology solutions for the firm's global wealth management clients. Stephen's experience at State Street included people, process, and project management, as well as client and technology implementation.

Prior to State Street, Stephen held a variety of management positions in the Global Transaction Services division of Citigroup. His responsibilities included managing offshoring projects, designing process improvements, and implementing new customer relationship management technologies.

Stephen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Trinity College.

Thomas B. Winmill has served as the portfolio manager of Midas Fund (MIDSX) since 2002 and has been president of the Fund’s investment manager since 1995. He serves as president and director for the Funds, and has served as a member of the investment manager’s Investment Policy Committee since 1990. As the current Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee, he helps establish general investment guidelines.

A graduate of Yale (B.A. Political Science and Economics, 1981) and the University of Washington, Condon School of Law (J.D., 1985), he is a member of the bars of Washington and New York States, the SEC Rules Committee of the Investment Company Institute and the New York Section member society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.