NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Malibu, CA, United States, 09/03/2008 - Convention Connection Speakers Bureau has booked finance keynote speaker Peter Ricchiuti for the Midland Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting on Friday, September 5, 2008 from 11am to 1pm at the Midland Center in Midland, TX.

Peter Ricchiuti is the Director of Research for Burkenroad Reports as well as the Assistant Dean at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

Ricchiuti's insight and humor have twice made him the School's top professor. After working in the Boston office of the investment banking firm of Kidder Peabody & Co., Peter served for five years as the assistant state treasurer and chief investment officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's three billion dollar investment portfolio and served on boards overseeing another eight billion dollars in retirement funds.

In 1993, Peter Ricchiuti founded Burkenroads Reports. There, Ricchiuti leads a team of more than 200 of Tulane’s business students in search of the investment "skinny" on undervalued and overlooked stocks in six southern states.

He and his program have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, and Nightly Business Report. Peter has been a frequent contributor to several financial sources including National Public Radio's Marketplace program and Family Money Magazine. His unique presentation style puts him in front of a wide variety of audiences including his selection by the NFL to teach investment workshops to the New Orleans Saints.

Convention Connection (speakersrus.com) is a full-service speakers bureau based in Malibu, CA with over 25 years of experience booking highly rated content keynotes, motivational speakers and corporate entertainment.

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