Conrad Gann is President, Chief Operating Officer, of TrimTabs Investment Research and the Managing Partner of TrimTabs Asset Management. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where he developed time series models to forecast economic indicators such as GNP, inflation, and interest rates. These forecasts contributed to the Federal Open Market Committee's briefings.

After receiving an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1993, Mr. Gann joined Corporate Strategy and Development for Bank of America Corporation. In a group that reported to the Office of the Chairman, he led negotiating teams charged with executing mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in the asset management, capital markets, brokerage, payments, and retail banking sectors. After a merger with NationsBank in 1998, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of the Asset Management Group where he advised senior management on various large-scale acquisitions and joint ventures. He also coordinated the integration of various investment management subsidiaries when NationsBank and BankAmerica merged to form Bank of America.

In 2001, Gann founded the BACAP Alternative Investments Group, raising $65 million in managed client assets. As Managing Director of this group, he supervised a team responsible for hedge fund due diligence and selection, administrative operations, and marketing.

In 2002, Mr. Gann left Bank of America to become Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development at Citadel Investment Group, one of the largest multi-strategy hedge funds. After Citadel he founded C. K. Gann & Company, which provides strategic advisory services to financial services companies.