About Joe Noel

Joe Noel is an award-winning stock picker and analyst with more than 30 years of experience in the investment and technology industries.

Mr. Noel is President of Emerging Growth Research, LLC — a firm like no other in financial services or financial communications.  Emerging Growth coalesces elements of independent stock analysis, merchant banking, investor relations, public relations and management consulting into a unique service offering that serves both investors and corporate insurers.  Services include: providing individual investors and hedge fund managers innovative stock recommendations; direct investments in growth companies; investor and public awareness campaigns; and, management consulting services to ensure management teams of the emerging growth companies maximize their potential.

Prior to founding Emerging Growth Research, Mr. Noel enjoyed an illustrious career on Wall Street as a securities analyst tracking various sectors of growth companies.  Most recently, he was a Senior Analyst at Pacific Growth Equities, LLC, where he tracked the emerging growth and advanced industrial sectors.  Prior to Pacific Growth Equities, Mr. Noel covered growth companies at Hambrecht & Quist.  During his Wall Street career, which lasted nearly 15 years, he was involved in dozens of initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and other financial transactions.

Mr. Noel’s success in stock picking and as a securities analyst was recognized multiple times. He was a frequent television guest on CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg Television, and other networks.  While at Pacific Growth Equities, he was twice recognized by the Wall Street Journal as an “All-Star Analyst” for his stock picking ability in the advanced industrial equipment and telecommunications sectors.  He also received the prestigious “Bloomberg Annual Stock Picking Award,” which recognized him for generating more than 100% annual returns on his recommendations.

While at Hambrecht & Quist, Mr. Noel was recognized two years in a row as a Wall Street Journal All-Star Analyst for stock picking in the telecommunications sector.  Additionally, while at Hambrecht & Quist, he received a separate Wall Street Journal All-Star Analyst for earnings forecast accuracy in the advanced industrial equipment sector.

Prior to his experiences as a Wall Street securities analyst, Mr. Noel was an industry analyst at Gartner/Dataquest where he tracked various growth sectors of the economy, including the development of the Internet, advanced data communications and wide area networking.  In addition to responsibilities as a publishing analyst, Mr. Noel also held a supervisory role directing the activities of other analysts tracking other growth sectors.

Before beginning his career as both a Wall Street analyst and as an industry analyst, Mr. Noel received solid experience in industry.  At MCI, which was later acquired by WorldCom, he was one of the telecommunications industry’s pioneers in the introduction of high speed data communications services.  In this role, he held national product launch responsibility for one of the most successful data communications services ever introduced.  The data communications service ultimately generated hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues and is still widely used by industries domestically and around the world.

At British Telecom, Mr. Noel was involved in the strategic planning for the firm’s migration from an antiquated technology to state-of-the-art Internet access technology.  In this role, he was responsible for negotiations, which ultimately led to government permission for one of the first consumer Internet access services.  He later wrote the business plan to launch British Telecom’s consumer Internet access service.  He was also employed by various Bell Operating Companies in both marketing and technical roles for many years.

Mr. Noel received his MBA in finance from Wake Forest University and holds a BS in business and economics.  He is based in San Francisco, Calif., but is a frequent traveler to visit both investors and the management teams of the companies he covers.

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