22V Research was founded in 2021 and is supported by a nationwide sales and marketing team powered by Analyst Hub and 22V.
We focus on investment strategy, quant research, policy research, technical analysis, and economic projections.
Our goal is our clients’ success. We scour the globe for innovative ideas, new ways to analyze data, and opportunities to think outside the box to help clients perform. We are our clients’ partners in performance by creating and delivering the most helpful investment research available.
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Dennis DeBusschere is President of 22V Research and chief market strategist. Prior to helping found 22V Research, he began his career in sales at Merrill Lynch. Dennis then went on to head Evercore ISI’s Portfolio Strategy Research and Quantitative Research teams and sit on the firm’s Investment Policy Committee. Dennis has consistently been one of the top-ranked portfolio strategists in the Institutional Investor’s annual poll. His daily market note covers major macro and micro events, analyzing their tactical/short term impact on markets as well as their implications for longer term market themes. Dennis graduated from University of Delaware in 1999 with a dual major in political science and economics.
Brian Herlihy is a founding partner and the CFO of 22V Research. He also heads the quantitative research team at the firm, focusing on converting macro views into factor, stock, and industry trades. Before starting 22V, Brian was a managing director of portfolio strategy, quantitative research, and equity derivatives at Evercore ISI. Brian began his career as a sell-side quantitative analyst at ISI Group before joining the buy-side as a macro and quantitative specialist at Level Global Investors. In 2013, Brian re-joined ISI to help Dennis DeBusschere launch a new strategy and quantitative research team.
Brian graduated from NYU with a degree in economics and lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife, Em, and their dogs, Lincoln and Navi.
Colin Crowley is a partner at 22V Research. Prior to joining the firm, Colin was a managing director in equity/macro research sales at Evercore ISI. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial services business. Previously, Colin was a proprietary commodity trader at Enron and, before that, with Metalgesellachaft and Rudolf Wolff. Mr. Crowley graduated from Adelphi University, serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Benevolent Society, and resides in Garden City, NY with his wife Joellen and three children (Chris, Will, and Elizabeth).
Vinayak is a founding partner of 22V and previously served as President of Evercore ISI. Over his three decades at Evercore ISI, Vinayak oversaw the firm’s 200+ employees across sales, trading and research. Vinayak started his career at U-Haul in 1991.
Vinayak is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, MN.
Kim N Wallace is a senior managing director at 22V Research heading the Washington policy risk team. A fiscal and financial policy expert, Mr. Wallace has managed policy research teams at private capital market and government entities.
From 1994-2008, Mr. Wallace traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and North America briefing institutional investor clients on risks and opportunities coming from a range of policies including macroeconomics (monetary, fiscal and trade policies), deregulation (financials and telecoms) and US elections. Mr. Wallace nine times was a member of Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-American all-star research team. From January 2009 through October 2011, after unanimous Senate confirmation, Mr. Wallace served as the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for legislative affairs where he managed a team of 17. During those years, he was a principal on the Dodd-Frank implementation team and a member of both the housing reform task for and debt limit working group. He was awarded the Treasury Department’s Alexander Hamilton Award in 2011.
Mr. Wallace is board secretary and member of the finance committee at of the nonprofit Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Wallace and his wife live in Silver Spring, MD. They have two grown children working and living in Washington, D.C.
Mr. MacDonell owns and operates Front Harbor Macro Research, a firm focused on forecasting and analyzing economic and policy developments. Before launching Front Harbor, Gerard was a Managing Director and Economist at Point72 working to help all members of the investment team analyze economic developments, policy transitions and data releases. While at Point72, he was also responsible for filtering and summarizing incoming industry research so that PM’s and analysts could efficiently incorporate large amounts of market information into their investment decisions. Prior to Point72, Gerard was the Chief Economist at JP Morgan Asset Management with a particular focus on Fixed Income and before that he was an economist with the Royal Bank of Canada.
John’s worked on Wall Street since 1987 with his research background beginning in 1990. From 1990 – 1994, Mr. Roque worked at Safian Investment Research and then from 1994 – 1998 at Lehman Brothers, where he partnered with long-time technician Steve Shobin. He was at Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder (and its incarnations) from 1998 – 2009 and then a short stint at WJB Capital through 2011. From 2012 – 2015 Mr. Roque worked on the buy-side at Soros Fund Management and then from 2016 – 2018 at Key Square Capital Management. He returned to the sell-side in April 2019 at Wolfe Research before joining 22V.
Mr. Roque was a ranked Technical Analyst in the Institutional Investor Magazine’s Research Poll from 2009 – 2011.
He received both his BA with Honors in Economics and his MBA with Honors in Financial Statement Analysis, International Trade & Development and International Economics from Fordham University.
Mr. Roque lives with his family in Mount Vernon, NY.
Michael joins 22V Research from Eurasia Group, the political advisory. As practice head for China and Northeast Asia, he guided global investors and firms through political and geopolitical developments ranging from US-China tensions to China’s stimulus policies and regulatory crackdowns.
Prior to joining Eurasia Group, he was the US Treasury Department’s chief representative in China from 2013-2016. In this capacity, he engaged closely with Chinese officials on a broad range of macroeconomic and financial issues and advised senior US government officials on key developments in China. He spent a total of ten years working on international financial and economic issues for the Treasury as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Michael has an MA in international affairs and China studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a BA from Pomona College.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard has been associated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) since 2002, and is currently a nonresident senior fellow with PIIE and resident senior fellow with the independent thinktank Bruegel in Brussels.
Before joining the PIIE, Jacob worked with the Danish Ministry of Defense, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector. He is a graduate of the Danish Army’s Special School of Intelligence and Linguistics with the rank of first lieutenant; the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; the Columbia University in New York; and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is author, coauthor or coeditor of Transforming the European Economy (2004), Accelerating the Globalization of America: The Role for Information Technology (2006), The Accelerating Decline in America’s High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy (2007), US Pension Reform: Lessons from Other Countries (2009) and Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity (2012). Jacob appears regularly in global media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Politico, BBC, NPR, Marketplace, Bloomberg, CNBC and various local European outlets. His current research focuses on European politics, macroeconomics and structural reforms, immigration, demographics, pension systems, labor markets, decarbonization strategies, foreign direct investment trends and estimations, and the productivity impact of information technology.
Colin Fenton heads commodities research for 22V. Previously, he was the global head of commodities research and chief commodities strategist for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. There, he was a member of the management committee that supervises the work of about 1,000 research analysts worldwide across all asset classes and sectors. He has served as a managing director at Duquesne Capital Management, chief intelligence officer of Ospraie Management, and founder and managing partner of Curium Capital Advisers. Fenton began his Wall Street career in 1996 as an original member of the commodities research group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Before joining Goldman, Colin was the research assistant to Ambassador Chester A. Crocker, the former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Affairs.
Colin holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is presently serving a three-year term on the Board of Advisors for the MSFS program. Previously, he was a Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in the Center on Global Energy Policy. Colin is also a graduate of Princeton University, where he studied early modern history.
Peter Williams is an experienced global macro analyst with a career across the public and private sectors. He spent the past two years as a Director on Evercore ISI’s global central bank strategy team, analyzing and forecasting central bank policy and macroeconomic developments across G7 economies. Prior to his time at Evercore, he spent four years at the International Monetary Fund where he focused on interest rate and inflation modeling, as well as forecasting and advising policy makers for the US and other economies. He has held other roles in the public sector, buy side, and independent research organizations. He holds an MSC in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford and a BS in Economics from the University of Tulsa.
Jeff Jacobson is a managing director, head of derivative strategy, at 22V Research. Jeff has nearly thirty years of equity trading and equity derivative experience, including the last thirteen years as head derivative strategist for Knight Capital, Raymond James Financial and most recently Seaport Global.
Jeff graduated from SUNY Albany in 1990 with a finance degree and received his MBA, with a concentration in finance, from Fordham University in 1995. He lives in Roslyn, NY with his wife, Shari, and his three children, Samuel, Marli and Olivia.
Peter is the Founder of Daniel Insights. For the past 3 years, Daniel Insights has hosted investor calls with interesting thought leaders from the public and private sectors for institutional equity investors. Peter previously spent 12 years with Ken Langone at Invemed helping lead their corporate access platform.
