From his home in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, just outside Toledo, Christopher Brown thinks he can smell a potential fraud all the way in San Jose, CA. The portfolio manager at Aristides Capital, with $91 million under management in a Long / Short strategy, took to the stage at a New York short selling conference Thursday and challenged claims of a Silicon Valley technology company. Energous is a tech startup founded in 2012 that made headlines when its “Watt Up” power at a distance charging device received approval from the Federal Communications Commission this past December. The company claims it…
Aristides Capital Takes On Energous (WATT) At Short Selling Conference
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.