A native of Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Bell worked as an investment reporter and editor with The Globe and Mail for 12 years prior to joining BNN. Bell is a keen student of investing idiocy and corporate blunders, relishing the opportunity to examine stocks and mutual funds. Bell gives his blunt, well-researched assessment on the hot stocks of the day and takes viewers through the detailed numbers while asking experts the tough questions, giving viewers the hard truth about personal investing. Bell is the author of Mutual Funds for Canadians for Dummies.

Andrew Willis has been covering capital markets in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business for more than a decade. The London, Ont., native follows the deals, the deal-makers and the street's scoundrels and has spent the past 20 years either keeping tabs on investment banks, or working at one. Willis co-authored a book on the Bre-X fraud in 1997.

Brett Harris is the Western Bureau Chief for the Business News Network. Brett was one of the original cast members of BNN when it launched in September 1999 and has helped build the specialty channel into Canada’s premier broadcast source for business and capital markets news. He hosted the popular phone-in show, Market Call, and developed and hosted BNN’s first weekend show, This Week in Business. Prior to BNN, Brett spent 10 years with CBC Television and Radio as a reporter, political correspondent, host and documentary producer.

Frances Horodelski has over 25 years of experience working with two of Canada's largest investment dealers. Her career has spanned research, portfolio advice, investment banking and international strategy. She also holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She has held a variety of roles, including senior management, and was appointed one of only a handful of women directors at RBC Dominion Securities in the 1990s.

One of the founding anchors at the network, Howard Green spent seven years at BNN (formerly Report on Business Television) before heading to Columbia University in 2006. Green was honoured by the school with a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business and economic journalism. Green began his reporting career in 1980 and started covering business in 1988.

Jacquie McNish is a senior writer with The Globe and Mail. She is the winner of numerous awards including two national newspaper awards and the 2005 National Business Book Award for Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, which she co-authored with Sinclair Stewart. McNish is also the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller The Big Score: Robert Friedland and the Voisey's Bay Hustle.

Kevin O'Leary co-founded SoftKey Software Products in 1983. With O'Leary as its president, SoftKey was the first software company to apply the principles of consumer goods marketing to the software industry. In early May 1999 -- three years after changing its name from SoftKey to The Learning Company, the Mattel Toy Company acquired it for $3.7 billion. O’Leary has developed a cult following among financial professionals and smart investors with his pull-no-punches look at the good, the bad and the ugly on Bay and Wall Streets.

Kim Parlee joined BNN during its infancy in 2001 and has worked as anchor, markets editor and technology reporter at the network. Parlee launched her journalism career at CBC Newsworld, but her in-depth knowledge of business evolved from working in finance at a number of blue-chip companies in Canada and abroad. Following that, she taught marketing at Dalhousie University, and helped start a technology venture capital company in Toronto. Parlee holds a commerce degree from the University of Guelph, an International MBA from York University and has done post-graduate work at IESA, one of South America’s top business schools located in Caracas, Venezuela.

Larry Berman is Chief Information Officer and Founder of ETF Capital Management. Drawing from his broad experience, Berman blends fundamentals with expert technical analysis to help BNN viewers uncover opportunities in the marketplace. Prior to founding ETFCM, Berman was Chief Technical Strategist and Managing Director for CIBC WorldMarkets since 1997. He was Senior Technical Analyst for Thomson IFR in Boston, and Senior Technical Analyst and Trader for Marleau, Lemire Futures in Toronto. Berman began his career as a Toronto-based investment advisor in 1989.

Linda Nazareth has been the Senior Economic Analyst for BNN since 1999. Prior to joining the network, Nazareth was a senior economist with CIBC, and earlier in her career she was an economist with the federal government. Nazareth is an author and an expert on the economic effects of demographic and social change; her newest book is titled, The Leisure Economy. Nazareth holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics, both from the University of Toronto.

Linda Sims brings 20 years of business journalism experience to BNN. A news producer in the mid-80s, Sims became part of the team that created CBC’s flagship business program Venture. She traveled throughout Canada, the U.S., and around the world during that time, reporting to Canadians about the business world at home and abroad; Sims’ work earned her a Gemini Award. In 1997, Sims moved to CTV, where she worked for 10 years as business anchor at CTV Toronto, Canada AM, and CTV Newsnet. Sims joined BNN in 2007.

Mark Bunting joined the BNN team in 2001. In 2002, Bunting left the network and moved to CTV Newsnet and CFRB Radio in Toronto, where he was a business editor; he was also the host of Investors Online. Bunting rejoined BNN in 2004 then departed for the United Kingdom to assume the role of BNN’s London Bureau Chief for three years. Bunting returned to Canada in 2007 and now delivers stocks and strategy reports to BNN viewers from the network’s Toronto-based headquarters each trading day.

Martin Cej has covered financial markets in Europe, Canada and the U.S. for more than a decade. He managed Bloomberg News' European equities desk from London for four years before moving to Toronto where he acted as Bloomberg's Markets Editor, responsible for stock, bond and currency coverage. After a stint in San Francisco as Global Markets Editor and columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com, the world's number-one financial news site, Cej returned to Canada to help launch GlobeinvestorGOLD.com, Canada's premier subscription-only financial website. In addition to his hosting role at BNN, Cej is currently Managing Editor for the network.

In addition to hosting some of BNN’s top rated programs, viewers may also recognize Michael Hainsworth for his work distilling the day’s financial news on local CTV newscasts across the country and for CTV Newsnet. Hainsworth made the transition into television after 11 years in radio; six of those were spent as news anchor and business reporter for Canada’s largest radio station, 680 News in Toronto. When not reporting the day’s financial news, Hainsworth can be found devouring the latest technology stories; he is a self confessed “computer geek.”

Before joining BNN in 2001, Michael Kane was the markets editor on the CanWest Global-TV show Prime Business with Deirdre McMurdy. Kane began his broadcast career in radio at CJOY in Guelph, Ontario before spending eight years in and around Prince George, B.C. at CJCI 620. Kane was operations manager at CKSY-FM in Chatham, Ontario before becoming senior editor and newscaster on a Toronto-based national wire service, Standard Broadcast News; and he was the morning line-up editor at 680News when it was converted from rock station CFTR.

Niall McGee hails from Donegal, Ireland. Prior to joining BNN in 2004, he worked as a reporter with the Weather Network. In 2003, McGee completed the Canadian Securities Course. McGee holds a BA in European Studies and majored in economics; he speaks five languages including Gaelic, French, Italian and Spanish.

Pat Bolland is the former on-air Stocks Editor at CNBC. Bolland broke stories on stocks in the early days of after-hours trading before his move to mornings where he set the tone for the rest of the day. Preceding CNBC, Bolland was a leading figure in Canada’s business news scene, as host and business editor for several national TV and radio shows. Bolland began his career as a floor clerk on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For over a decade, he sold stocks at the retail and institutional levels and eventually became the Vice President of Equity Trading with his firm in the industry’s top tier. Bolland is well-known to BNN viewers as the guy with the handlebar moustache!

Patricia Lovett-Reid is one of Canada’s leading and respected authorities on personal finance. She is the Senior Vice President of TD Waterhouse Canada Inc., and the host of BNN’s MoneyTalk, Canada's premier show on personal finance, airing every Monday at 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT. For her commitment in educating investors, Patricia has been recognized with the 2007 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award™ in the “Trailblazers and Trendsetters” category. A sought-after speaker and commentator on wealth management, she has also co-authored several national best selling books. Patricia holds the designation of Certified Financial Planner and is a Honourary Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. She has also taken on the role of Trusted Wealth Advisor, with Indigo Chapters.

Paul Bagnell joined BNN in 2001 and has since provided viewers with up-to-date coverage of important news driving stocks in the Canadian and U.S. markets. Bagnell has covered financial market news for more than 13 years. Earlier in his career, Bagnell worked as a parliamentary reporter in Ottawa and a Washington correspondent for Thomson Newspapers. In late 1995, he joined the Financial Post as a reporter where he went on to cover the forestry, mining, real estate and banking sectors. Bagnell’s reports can be seen throughout the trading day on BNN.

Paul Waldie has been an award-winning journalist with The Globe and Mail for more than 10 years. He has won two National Newspaper Awards for business coverage and authored a best-selling biography of the McCain family. Waldie is a former national editor of the National Post and he has worked at newspapers in Vancouver and Montreal.

Scott Peterson joined the reporting team at BNN in 2007. Prior to that, Peterson worked for various print publications including the Financial Post. His role at the paper evolved to an on-air capacity, doing live reporter hits for Global News Morning where he eventually became the business anchor at Global TV, a position he held for over two years. Before making his move into media, Peterson held investment roles at some of the largest brokerage houses on Bay Street, where he relished his roll as an investment advisor. In that capacity, Peterson was fully qualified to buy and sell equities, internationally and domestically, and was also licensed to trade option contracts. Peterson attained his post graduate degree in journalism from Ryerson University and holds an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University.