Christopher D. Eddy, MIR

Senior Vice President

Chris has a substantial base of Wall Street experience, relationships and perspective, having spent 15 years at leading sell and buy-side firms. He spent 12 years in sales and trading at Barclays, Bear Stearns & Co. and J.P. Morgan arranging structured fixed income and derivative solutions for institutional clients. More recently, Chris was a Financial Advisor at Edward Jones & Co. and launched a new office in Westchester, New York for the firm.

Chris earned an MS in Investor Relations from Fordham University and a BA in Economics from SUNY Buffalo.

William R. Jones, CFA

Senior Vice President

Bill Jones brings to Catalyst substantial Wall Street experience and small cap perspective both as a Senior Equity Research Analyst and from managing corporate access programs and semi-annual conferences for Singular Research. As an analyst Bill earned four- and five-star ratings for earnings accuracy. He is a co-founder of Solaris Select, a company-sponsored research product, and he has served on the Investment Committee of a fund relying solely on Singular Research ideas.

Prior to joining Singular, Bill was an equity research analyst with Valuation Research Corporation, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Credit Suisse in New York.  He has extensive experience in business valuation, having prepared financial reporting, tax, fairness, capital adequacy and purchase price allocation opinions for fortune 500 companies.  His entrepreneurial pursuits include the launch of Singular’s corporate access program and the formation of a successful staffing business.

Bill earned an MBA from the Pennsylvania State Smeal College of Business and a BS degree in Finance from the University of Scranton. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Paul Krikler

Managing Director

Paul Krikler joined Catalyst to lead our Executive Presentation Skills Practice to enhance the success of investor-facing IROs and C-suite executives across the market cap spectrum.

Paul has decades of experience managing top Wall Street analysts, bankers and salespeople to “Get to the Point” when presenting investment ideas with focused, actionable content.

Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Krikler spent 21 years at Goldman Sachs in London and New York where he was a successful sell-side research analyst covering European pharmaceuticals.

Subsequently, he held various roles in Research Management where he worked with analysts around the world to hone the effectiveness of their research, writing and oral presentations. He also served as Chief of Staff of Goldman Sachs University, the investment bank’s global learning and personnel development entity.

Krikler began his career as a chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.  He earned an MA with honors in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge.