Ezra Marbach is an entrepreneur and investor. He was a member of the core group that built SeekingAlpha.com, a major destination site for Internet-based equity research by asset managers, financial newsletters and bloggers. In his product development role, Ezra spearheaded an effort to educate public companies on the power and importance of financial blogs to their investor relations outreach. He also developed a variety of innovative strategies to help public companies more effectively communicate with targeted groups of institutional investors online. Previously, Ezra worked for a venture capital firm in China, ran business development for Internet-based venture capital firm UniversityAngels.com, and was an analyst in the corporate finance department of Gerard, Klauer, Mattison, a NY-based boutique investment bank. Ezra has been quoted in IR Magazine, contributed to NIRI publications, and consulted to investor relations firms, public relations firms and public companies throughout the United States and China on financial blogging and Web 2.0. Ezra holds a B.A. from Cornell University.