It was a cold call to Warren Buffett that led to Harvard Business School grad Tracy Britt Cool being named CEO of Pampered Chef, a Buffett holding, on Monday.
Cool will replace Pampered Chef founder Doris Christopher, a home economics teacher who started the company selling kitchen utensils from her basement in 1980.
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.
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