Charles Gasparino Keynote Speaker

Charles Gasparino Speaker Profile:

Charles Gasparino is senior correspondent for FOX Business Network (FBN), an award-winning business journalist, and New York Times best-selling author of “Bought and Paid For: The Hidden Relationship between Wall Street and Washington” (2012), “Circle of Friends: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading – and Why the Markets Always Work Against the Little Guy” (2013) and “The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System” (2009).

He joined FOX Business Network in February 2010. Gasparino provides on-air reporting throughout the business day for the network, covering the latest news from the financial world. Prior to joining FBN, he was an on-air editor for CNBC where he was responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories affecting the financial markets during the recent financial crisis, including the first reports of AIG’s government bailout, details behind the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the shakeups at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. A sought after speaker at financial institutions, business conferences, and universities, Gasparino shares his inside knowledge of Wall Street and the world of finance to tell audiences how we plummeted into a Great Recession, what’s really going on with the economy, and what it means for the road ahead.

Before joining CNBC, he was a senior writer at  Newsweek magazine where he broke major stories involving Wall Street and corporate America, including developments at the New York Stock Exchange under Richard Grasso and former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s crackdown on corporate crime. Gasparino also served as a writer for the Wall Street Journal where he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting in 2002 and won the New York Press Club award for best continuing coverage of the Wall Street research scandal. In 2003, he was nominated as part of a team of reporters for the paper’s coverage of the New York Stock Exchange and the resignation of its former chairman Richard Grasso.

A recipient of numerous business journalism awards, Gasparino is also the author of the best-selling financial books. He has also served as a contributor to the Daily Beast, New York magazine, and Forbes, among other publications.

Gasparino’s New York Times best-seller, “The Sellout” is the definitive book on the most recent volatile, anxiety-ridden era in our national socioeconomic history. In his Sellout talks Gasparino demonstrates how the ongoing tumult in financial markets is part of a much larger story that entails some of our most esteemed financial institutions selling out their responsibility, not just to their own shareholders, but to millions of outside investors and to the American public itself. “The Sellout” won the book category of the IRE Awards. The awards, given by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. since 1979, recognize the most outstanding watchdog journalism of the year.

Gasparino traces the implosion of the financial services business back to its roots in the late 1970s when Wall Street embraced a new business model predicated on taking enormous risks. He shows how a backwater business involving the trading of risky bonds packed with mortgages showered countless billions in profits on the financial industry but sowed the seeds of its ultimate demise. Gasparino walks audiences through Wall Street’s three-decades’ love affair with risk, revealing a trail of culpability-from the government bureaucrats who crafted housing policies that encouraged homeownership, to the Wall Street firms that underwrote and invested in risky debt, to the mortgage sellers who handed out loans to people without the financial wherewithal to pay them back, to the homeowners who became convinced that they could afford mansions on blue-collar wages. The ongoing tumult in financial markets and the global economy began when some of our most esteemed financial institutions, our government, and even average citizens abdicated their collective responsibilities, eventually selling out investors and selling off the American Dream itself. Gasparino relays how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street’s dominance and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of middle-class Americans.

For availability and speaker fees, please contact Charles Gasparino’s speaking agent at Chartwell here, or call +1 972 385 1021 for U.S. inquiries or +44 207 293 0864 for international inquiries.