2011 Keynote Speaker
Charles Gasparino

Senior Correspondent
Fox Business Network

Marketwatch named Gasparino one of "12 Broadcasters Who Are Making a Difference", and The Daily Beast called him one of the "Top 15 "Economic and Business Commentators" (and the only television journalist on the list).

Charlie Gasparino is a senior correspondent for Fox Business Network. He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. At Fox, Gasparino has broken stories on, among others, the US government's plans to sell its stake in Citigroup and the government's pressure on Bank of America to shrink itself.

Prior to joining FBN, Gasparino 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. Before joining CNBC, he was a senior writer at Newsweek magazine where he broke major stories involving Wall Street and corporate America. 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. He has also served as a contributor to the New York magazine, Huffington Post, and Forbes, among other publications.

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 bestselling financial books including, "The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System" and "Blood on the Street," as well as critically acclaimed "King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange." "The Sellout…" a New York Times bestseller, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Library Journal all named it one of the best business books of 2009, and it received the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Books.

Charles Gasparino joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in February 2010.

Gasparino provides on-air reporting throughout the business day for the network, covering the latest news from the financial world.
Check out his Twitter: twitter.com/CGasparino