Executive Team

Dave Gentry is the author of Small Stocks, Big Money (Wiley), a book of interviews with the world’s most successful small-cap investors. He has been a consultant to more than 700 public companies and assisted dozens of public companies in the up-listing and capital-raise process. In 2012 he founded The RedChip Money Report™, a weekly cable TV financial news show broadcast in 177 million homes. He has appeared on CNBC and Fox Business News and is widely known as a thought leader in the small-cap space. Mr. Gentry has been a presenter at the New York Society of Security Analysts, Deal Flow Media conferences, and other small-cap conferences, and he has rung the NASDAQ bell on three occasions representing RedChip Companies. In 2011, he was honored by Inc. Magazine as the CEO of one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. In 1996, he won the Republican nomination in the 5th District of Florida for the United States House of Representatives. In 1994 he co-founded the First Amendment Coalition, an independent, nonprofit, collegiate-based student organization, and received national and international attention for his work defending free speech on college campuses. Mr. Gentry’s activism led to his book 100+ Cases of Campus Censorship, published by David Horowitz’s Second Thoughts Books. Mr. Gentry earned his master’s of education from the University of Florida in 1993.

Jon is the host of the RedChip Money Report™ TV show which airs on Bloomberg US Saturdays at 7 pm and Bloomberg International Sundays at 6 pm in every country in Europe. Jon formerly specialized in global retail and institutional outreach with specific interest in North America. Over the last ten years, he has represented U.S. and international companies across all industry classifications. He has worked with hundreds of small-cap institutions, family offices and registered investment advisors. Prior to joining RedChip Companies, Mr. Cunningham was a registered investment advisor for the Principal Financial Group and held series 7, 52, 63, and 65 licenses, as well as life and health insurance licenses. Prior to joining Principal, Mr. Cunningham was a stockbroker for Olde Discount Corporation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cunningham managed the Midwest Division of Quality Assurance for Amtrak in Chicago.

Mr. Pfister is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has spent over six years researching and analyzing emerging growth companies in a variety of industries, including metals and mining, oil and gas, technology, biotechnology, and emerging market stocks. Mr. Pfister earned his B.S. degree in Finance summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa.

Paul brings over 15 years of investor relations experience to RedChip. Prior to joining RedChip, he served as Managing Director of Lead Summit Advisers, a boutique communications consulting firm he founded, where he directed the development and implementation of a wide variety of communications programs for private and public companies in various sectors. Previously, Paul was Communications Manager at SAC Financial Communications, a Las Vegas-based investor relations firm, where he developed investor communications strategies for a large roster of NASDAQ, NYSE Amex, and OTC companies. Paul graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Point Park University, earned a Public Relations Certificate from Rutgers University, and currently serves on the board of directors of Voces Solis, a Pittsburgh-based arts nonprofit.

Mr. Yoo began his finance career as a research analyst in the Private Client and Wealth Management Department of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (NYSE: OPY) He specialized in all matters related to publicly traded companies on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX, with a focus on creating unique customized solutions for executives and directors of publicly traded companies in both the United States and overseas.

Then Mr. Yoo later relocated to Korea to take an offer to work as a money manager in the treasury department of Hyundai LCD.

In 2007 Mr. Yoo co-founded Vitamin Depot in Korea where he managed the company's corporate finances as its CFO.

He earned a B.A in Finance from Baruch College at The City University of New York.

Rafic Abou Fadel (R.A.F.) has more than 30 years’ experience in banking and business. He was the co-founder of Kast Telecom and has held numerous senior executive and director positions primarily in the New Technologies of Information and Communication sector. R.A.F. has a Degree in Business Administration and has followed several specialized training Masters level capacity cessions of Business Management, Finance, and Communication at Syracuse University.

Todd McKnight, an entrepreneur by nature, appreciates a fundamental analytical macro approach to investing as a key to long term wealth creation. Upon attaining a degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech he learned the ins and outs of corporate finance and financial markets at American Express Financial Advisors and Northwestern Mutual moving on to manage and own a successful OSJ, with an asset management/investment banking focus in publicly traded oil & gas and mining companies. He has hosted more than a dozen entrepreneurial conferences at top venues including The Harvard Club and successfully represented companies at a multitude of business symposiums, conferences and roadshows on four continents, leading to substantial financial support and positve exposure for his clients.

Over his years of experience, Matt has enjoyed great successes and represented a diverse group of clients such as celebrity athletes NFL legend Jim Brown and Mike Tyson, fashion brand DKNY, governmental clients the FDNY, the PBA and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, hotel chain Holiday Inn and real estate brokerage Douglas Elliman, in addition to other well known companies and brands in the corporate, banking, hospitality, construction, tech and real estate industries.

Tony is a 35-year media veteran, having started his career in the 1980s as a newspaper journalist for The Clearwater Sun, The Tampa Tribune and others. In 1989, Tony won the Florida Press Club Award for his eye-witness coverage of the execution of serial killer Ted Bundy, which is also where he met future producing partner John Wilson. He later shifted his career into public relations with video game producer Capstone, where he also scripted many of their games, including William Shatner's TekWar. During that period, he was Shatner's publicist for his various video game projects.

In the mid-90s he was a VP at New York City’s TSI/The Weber Group, where he worked with major tech clients like Microsoft, AOL, IBM, Sony, Warner Bros. and more than a dozen early Internet startups. In 1999, he moved to Hill & Knowlton, where he represented Stan Lee, Marvel Comics founder and pop culture icon. He worked with Stan for years, ultimately producing the now infamous Marvel Then and Now: An Evening with Stan Lee documentary feature. His work in the comics industry distinguished him enough to be named Senior Vice President of CrossGen Entertainment, which was purchased by The Disney Company in 2003. While there, Tony developed motion picture and TV projects based on CrossGen's properties, working with talents such as Bob Zemeckis, Wes Craven, Larry Kasanoff and Chuck Russell. Tony continued to work as a marketing consultant,  with film producer Michael Uslan (of Batman, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Constantine, National Treasure fame) to license his properties into film and television.

Today, he splits his time as a writer for Redchip Investor Relations, a senior counselor for Wilson Media (working alongside his old friend John Wilson) and a writer/producer with Lonesome Pine Pictures (partnered with John’s son Paul Wilson). He also contributes about 30 percent of his professional time to pro bono clients such as Operation Flyaway, a citizen para-military effort that delivered 1.301 Americans and American allies from Afghanistan last August, Operation Snow Leopard (a follow-up mission to Flyaway), and Veterans in Media and Entertainment, an advocacy group for veterans working in the media. He is the co-author of the upcoming book “Our Top Story: How Ted Bundy Changed Us Forever.”