2009 Investment Conference - Money Making Strategies

Jim Cramer is a director and co-founder of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. He is also the host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and the author of several books, including Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer), Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich, Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World, You Got Screwed! Why Wall Street Tanked and How You Can Prosper and his autobiography, Confessions of a Street Addict. Cramer also has his own premium investing service, Action Alerts PLUS.

A frequent contributor to Time magazine, Cramer also writes about the stock market for New York magazine, was a founder of and former columnist for SmartMoney magazine.

James Altucher is president and founder of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs a fund of hedge funds. He also is a weekly columnist for the Financial Times and the author of the books Trade Like a Hedge Fund, Trade Like Warren Buffett and SuperCa$h. Previously, Altucher was a managing partner at technology venture capital firm 212 Ventures and was CEO and founder of Vaultus and Reset Inc.

Steven Birenberg, CFA, is president and chief investment officer of Northlake Capital Management, LLC. Northlake specializes in managing equity portfolios using a combination of exchange-traded funds and special situation stocks. Prior to forming Northlake, Birenberg was a principal, director of research, and portfolio manager at Gofen and Glossberg, LLC. Prior to that, Birenberg was a trust investment officer at Star Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been managing portfolios and researching stocks for more than 22 years. Birenberg's research experience has included almost every economic sector, with special emphasis on the media sector.

Frank Curzio is a research analyst at TheStreet.com, where he writes TheStreet.com Stocks Under $10. He also hosts "The Real Story" — a daily podcast on TheStreet.com in which he reviews the latest headlines and offers stock-picking advice. He is a regular guest on FoxBusiness News and previously was the editor of The FXC Newsletter and portfolio manager for Greentree Financial.

James "Rev Shark" DePorre is the author of Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market. He is founder and CEO of Shark Asset Management, an investment management firm, and he also operates sharkinvesting.com, an interactive online community that serves and educates active investors. "Rev Shark" also has his own premium investing service, TheStreet.com ETF Shark Alerts.

Lenny Dykstra, nicknamed 'Nails' for his tough style of play, is a former Major League Baseball player for the 1986 World Champions, New York Mets, and the 1993 National League Champions, Philadelphia Phillies as well as a three-time All Star. He is the founder of The Players Club, where he teaches athletes how to invest and protect their incomes. He is featured regularly on CNBC and other cable news shows, and is the author of TheStreet.com Nails on the Numbers, a premium investing service providing Lenny's deep-in-the-money calls. Lenny was selected as OverTime Magazine's 2006-2007 "Entrepreneur of the Year."

Alan Farley is a private trader and publisher of Hard Right Edge, a comprehensive resource for trader education, technical analysis, and short-term trading techniques. He is also author of the McGraw-Hill bestseller, The Master Swing Trader. Farley is also the author of TheStreet.com Daily Swing Trade, a premium service that outlines his charts and analysis. Farley has also been featured in Barron's, SmartMoney, Tech Week, Active Trader, MoneyCentral, Technical Investor, Bridge Trader and Online Investor.

Adam Feuerstein, before joining TheStreet.com in March 2001, covered business software for Upside.com. Prior to that he covered a variety of business beats, including technology and commercial real estate, at the San Francisco Business Times. He is the Research Director of TheStreet.com's newest premium service, Biotech Select.

Dan Fitzpatrick is the publisher of The Stock Market Mentor, an advisory newsletter and educational forum dedicated to teaching effective risk management and trading methodologies to aspiring traders and investors. He is a former hedge fund manager and a member of the Market Technicians Association. Dan is a frequent contributor to RealMoney.com and is the host of "3 Stocks I Saw on TV," a popular feature on TheStreet.com TV.

Larsen Kusick is a research associate at TheStreet.com, where he writes TheStreet.com Breakout Stocks. Prior to joining TheStreet.com, Kusick spent a year on the floor of the NYBOT and COMEX exchanges, trading options on commodity futures. Before that, he spent four years in management consulting, performing financial analyses on major companies, primarily in the finance industry. His market interests include small-caps, technical analysis and contrarian investing strategies.

Stephanie Link is the Director of Research for TheStreet.com Action Alerts PLUS, Jim Cramer's premium investing service. She works daily with Jim on the stock picks chosen for the Action Alerts PLUS portfolio. Before joining TheStreet.com, Stephanie worked on Wall Street for 16 years. She spent 9 years at the Prudential Equity Group as a Senior Vice-President in institutional sales, where she covered top national accounts. Prior to that position, she worked at Dean Witter as an institutional sales person for six years. Stephanie's investment specialties include large-cap core stocks as well as value ideas.

Helene Meisler writes for RealMoney.com and is the author of the premium investing service, TheStreet.com Top Stocks. Helene spent more than a decade on the sell side as a market technician covering institutional accounts at various investment banks in New York City, including Cowen & Co. and Goldman Sachs. In addition she worked at Cargill in Minneapolis where she managed equity money for three years.

David Peltier joined TheStreet.com as a research associate in August 2001, and writes TheStreet.com Dividend Stock Advisor and TheStreet.com Value Investor. Before that, Peltier was an analyst for Individual Investor magazine and the publication's Web site. His market interests include small-caps, technology and retail stocks. He has appeared on NPR, CNNfn and WNYW-TV.