David Brown

David is the founder, chairman, and chief market strategist for Sabrient. A former NASA scientist and retired CEO of Telescan, Inc., David provides the vision behind Sabrient's quantitative research and the overall strategic direction of the firm. Additionally, he writes the popular market letter "What the Market Wants," manages the virtual portfolios "Sabrient Investor’s Hedge." and "Sabrient Earnings Busters," and leads the development of the acclaimed annual "Baker's Dozen Portfolio" and the Sabrient UITs.

A lifelong investor, he designed and developed the critically acclaimed stock search program, ProSearch, and the market timing indicator, Brown Breakout Ratio. He has documented his investing expertise in four books on investing, including All About Stock Market Strategies (McGraw-Hill, June 2002) and Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with your Personal Computer (John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 1997).The latter was named Book of the Year in 1997 by PBS's Inside Money.

David has taught university-level finance and security analysis courses and was named Stock Traders Almanac's Man of the Year for 1988 for "[showing] the average investor how to spot the stocks that the hottest money managers are buying." He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA in Finance from the University of Houston. He is a member of the Author's Guild.