Arbitrage Media is a recently formed media company located in New York City
whose primary goal is to service
the burgeoning hedge fund industry and to be the leading and comprehensive source for news, developments, and trends within
the industry.
Arbitrage Media will deliver information and insights about the hedge fund
industry via print
and web products. It is positioned to service the growing alternative investment sector and become the sector’s impartial, comprehensive
and trusted authority on trends, critical developments and macroeconomic/financial conditions affecting the alternative investment world.
Principals in the company:
Joseph Ferrick, President & Publisher
Mr. Ferrick
has over 12 years of advertising sales and sales management
experience and has worked in various types and sizes of media
companies with
great success at each. Whether it has been technology magazines such as CRM
Magazine or Line56 Magazine,
shelter magazines like This Old House, financial
magazines such as Individual Investor, entertainment magazine such as
The Cable
Guide or even selling advertising into the NYNEX Yellow Pages, Mr. Ferrick has
helped customers with their
advertising needs and helped them grow their
businesses. The products that Mr. Ferrick has sold have included print,
online,
webcasts, trade show exhibit space and custom publishing. He holds a BA in
English from The State University
at Buffalo.
Joseph Lazzaro, Vice President and Director of Content
Mr.
Lazzaro is a veteran journalist with more than 12 years managing/senior
editor service in publishing and journalism.
Prior to his current position, Mr.
Lazzaro was Managing Editor for New York-based financial news web sites Wall
Street
Europe / Wall Street Italia, and for IPO.com. Mr. Lazzaro played an
important role in the development of the Wall Street
Italia and Wall Street
Europe editorial operations, and within two years WSI became the largest and
most-read financial
web site serving Italian investors. In addition, IPO.com won
Forbes Magazine’s “Best On The Web 2000” award. Prior to
the financial editor
posts, Mr. Lazzaro served as a copy editor and news editor for the Pulitzer
Prize-winning Hartford
(Connecticut) Courant. Mr. Lazzaro holds a Master's
Degree in American Government and International Economics, and a
B.A. in
Journalism, both from the University of Connecticut.