Bradley Woods & Co. Ltd


Management

Daniel Ripp, President. Dan Ripp is President of Bradley Woods & Co. Ltd. Since 2004 he leads the firm's research team overseeing content and new product development. Under Mr. Ripp's direction the firm retooled its research product to focus on specific investment implications of US federal government policy and geopolitics. Bradley Woods has offered a policy analysis product since its inception in 1970 and has contacts at the highest levels of the US federal government. Since taking the helm at Bradley Woods, Mr. Ripp has also redefined the firm's client purview to include investment managers and industry participants (e.g., energy, healthcare, and telecom companies).

While Bradley Woods itself offers expertise across the spectrum of regulated industries, Mr. Ripp has an established reputation as an expert in energy policy and geopolitics. Drawing on years of international experience, Mr. Ripp provides insight into the various policy approaches different governments take with regard to energy production and consumption. As a former foreign exchange and derivatives trader, Mr. Ripp is positioned to assess the impact of global energy policy developments on outcomes in the capital markets.

Mr. Ripp has an academic background in mathematics as well as professional experience in risk management and value-at-risk (VaR) methodology. As such, he approaches political, sovereign and energy risk with a unique combination of government, capital markets and quantitative insight.

Prior to joining Bradley Woods, Mr. Ripp was CEO of H.C. Wainwright, a 140-year old investment bank headquartered in New York. He was also a management consultant to various firms and was a member of A.T. Kearney's Financial Institutions Group. Earlier in his career Mr. Ripp was a foreign exchange and derivatives sales trader for Morgan Stanley and Sumitomo Bank.

Mr. Ripp is a frequent speaker and television commentator on policy and the capital markets. He is a trustee of the Congressional Effect Funds and is a former co-chair of Harvard College's New York Schools Committee. Mr. Ripp received an MBA from Columbia Business School and an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.

Dan.Ripp@bradleywoods.com

Dan Ripp in the media:

On healthcare legislation

On climate change policy