Marc Cohodes, a former General Partner of Rocker Partners/Copper River, is a long-time stock market analyst, as well as one of the most globally recognized and accomplished short sellers. Marc’s 40-year career as an investor and hedge fund manager began at Northern Trust Company in 1982 after graduating Babson College with a BS in Finance. He has since exposed many publicly traded companies and individuals who were engaged in fraud, illegal conduct, questionable accounting, and stock manipulation, including Lernout & Hauspie, Media Vision Technology, NovaStar Financial, AremiSoft, California Micro Devices, Network Associates, TakeTwo Interactive, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Boston Chicken, MiMedx Group Inc., and others. For more than 30 years, he has provided valuable and timely information to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice about companies engaged in fraudulent business practices. Most recently, his work helped uncover the dark sides of FTX, Silvergate and Signature Bank. His investigations of fraud in financial markets have been reported in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and Institutional Investor, on CNN, and in award-winning books about financial fraud, such as Selling America Short and The Most Dangerous Trade. Marc was also the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies -about his successful efforts to expose frauds. Marc is currently a private investor.