The senior staff at FX4casts averages more than 30 years each
of forecasting and analytical experience.

ALAN TECK Ph.D. -- Publisher & Editor in Chief

Dr. Teck has been publisher and editor-in-chief of FX4casts and its predecessor – The Financial Times Currency Forecaster – since its inception in 1984.  Under his direction, its monthly consensus forecasts have become industry benchmarks for currencies, interest rates and economic indicators in more than 50 countries.  Financial officers in multinational companies, portfolio managers, bankers and organizations such as the Federal Reserve Board and IMF/World Bank have profited by using its consensus forecasts and analysis to manage currency and interest-rate risks, international borrowing and investing, budgeting and long-term planning.

Prior to 1981, when he established Forecasts Unlimited, Inc., which publishes FX4casts, Dr. Teck was Vice President at Chemical Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase).  As Director of Financial Consulting Services, he was responsible for the Foreign Exchange Advisory Service and International Cash Management Services, with profit centers in New York City, London, Brussels and Hong Kong.  Previously he was senior financial analyst at Celanese, Assistant Treasurer at Macmillan, economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and security analyst at Hornblower & Weeks.  He earned his masters and doctorate degrees from the Department of Economics at Columbia University, undergraduate degree from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and completed the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

MARSHA A. KAMERON -- Vice President and Senior Economist

Readers also get the benefit of Marsha Kameron's expertise. For more than twenty-five years, she has been preparing short- and long-term forecasts for major and minor currencies, interest rates worldwide and economic indicators for organizations doing business in virtually all industrial and emerging countries. For the past fifteen years, she has been Vice President and Senior Economist for FX4casts monthly issues and  weekly updates.

Previously, Ms. Kameron was an international economist for Chemical Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase) with responsibilities for Europe and Asia. Earlier, she was an international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. At T.J. Holt, Ms. Kameron wrote  an investment advisory newsletter analyzing U.S. and foreign financial markets. She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Economics Department at Queens College and is included in Who's Who in North America and Women in American Business.

Paul D. Spindel – Senior Programmer

Paul Spindel is an experienced programmer with a strong background in the application of technology to a wide variety of business-related problems. His technical background spans the full range of project management, system design, programming and computer operations, including mainframes, mini computers, local area networks and e-commerce. He served four years as Vice President and General Manager of the Gartner Group, a nationally-known information technology research firm. Mr. Spindel is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The Polytechnic Institute of New York.

EUGENE SARVER, Ph.D. -- Director of Marketing

Dr. Eugene Sarver is the Global Marketing Director for FX Forecasts, the world’s leading consensus foreign exchange forecaster. Concurrently, he writes the international finance section of Maersk’s monthly International Trade Report.

Previously, Dr. Sarver was Associate Professor of Finance and Assistant Chairman in the Lubin Graduate School of Business, Pace University, New York. Earlier, he was Vice President and Manager of the Latin American Group of JP Morgan Chase’s Foreign Exchange Advisory Service. Also, he serves on the Board of Directors of the American Heritage Fund (often ranked best-performing fund) and the American Heritage Growth Fund.

Based on his research and business in 95 countries, Dr. Sarver has written nearly 100 articles and several books on international finance and economics. His 637-page The Eurocurrency Market Handbook, Second Edition (1990) is published by Simon & Schuster/Prentice-Hall. He co-authored Banking and Finance in Islands and Small States, published by Cassell (London). From October 1995 - 2002, he wrote the “Currency Forecasts” section of the monthly World Trade magazine and was appointed Contributing Editor in January 1999.

Dr. Sarver earned his B.A. from Haverford College, M.A. from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, and doctorate in Economics, Political Science and Sociology from Carnegie Corporation Program at Idaho State University. Dr. Sarver speaks Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.

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