Our Team

Brian R. Connell, CFA
Senior Managing Director

Mr. Connell has over 15 years' experience in the securities industry, as an equity analyst and portfolio manager, and as the founder and CEO of StreetFusion (acquired by CCBN/StreetEvents), a software company serving the institutional investment community. On the sell-side, Mr. Connell served as the technology analyst for Neovest, an Atlanta-based boutique, and as a Senior Analyst - Internet for Preferred Capital Markets, an investment bank based in San Francisco. Mr. Connell has also held the position of Executive Director of Marquis Capital Management, a technology-focused investment management organization.

Mr. Connell founded Harbinger Research in 2004 with the purpose of providing high quality research coverage to deserving smaller companies.

Mr. Connell also holds degrees in Economics and Psychology from Duke University, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Scott R. Greenstone, CFA
Senior Research Analyst, Healthcare

Prior to joining Harbinger Research, Mr. Greenstone founded StratFin, an ongoing enterprise that helps scientific-entrepreneurs build businesses.  Prior to forming StratFin, Mr. Greenstone was the head of business development at Varian, Inc., a $1 billion manufacturer of scientific instruments responsible for co-developing global strategy and for sourcing and executing mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and OEM relationships.  Previously, he led financial planning and analysis at Symyx Technologies and Xenogen.

Prior to his operating roles, Mr. Greenstone was a research analyst, covering precision instrumentation and life science companies for ten years at several investment banks including Thomas Weisel Partners & Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Greenstone has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. from Lehigh University.  He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Mikael J. Asp, CFA
Senior Research Analyst, Technology, Media, and Telecom

Mikael Asp has over 12 years of investment experience across sell-side equity research, private equity, and hedge funds.  Prior to joining Harbinger Research, he was a Technology, Media and Telecom Portfolio Manager for PioneerPath Capital, part of a hedge fund incubation unit in New York.   Previously, Mr. Asp was a Senior TMT Analyst at Deephaven Capital in Minneapolis, MN.  Mr. Asp also worked at Churchill Capital, a private equity firm based in Minneapolis, MN.  Prior to his time at Churchill, Mr. Asp spent three years combined writing sell-side equity research for Piper Jaffray and JPMorgan Chase.

Mikael J. Asp is a CFA Charterholder and has a B.A. in Finance from St. Thomas University.