Today: Expert Call with William W. Keep on Pyramid Schemes and the Multi-Level Marketing Industry

03/20/13 10:15AM EDT

The Hedgeye Consumer Staples team, led by Rob Campagnino, will be hosting an expert call featuring William W. Keep TODAY at 1:00pm EST entitled "Pyramid Schemes and Multi-Level Marketing."

CALL DETAILS

  • Date: Monday, March 25th at 1:00pm EST
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  • Conference Code: 587456#
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TOPICS WILL INCLUDE 

  • What is Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) and where does it come from?
  • What are the key factors that determine a pyramid scheme versus a legitimate MLM company?
  • Framing the industry's learnings from such pyramid schemes as Equinox, Burn Lounge and Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing
  • Discussion of the FTC's role in the industry
  • Contextualizing Herbalife moving forward

ABOUT WILLIAM W. KEEP   

Keep is a professor of marketing at The College of New Jersey and currently serves as Dean of the school. His research and writings -- published in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, the Journal of Business Ethics, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others -- focus on long-term business relationships, business ethics, public policy and higher education. As a consultant he worked with a variety of firms and served as an expert witness in the prosecution of pyramid schemes, including Security Exchange Commission (SEC) v. International Heritage Inc., at the time the largest pyramid scheme ever prosecuted by the SEC. Keep has appeared on CNBC to discuss the topic of pyramid schemes, the MLM industry, and Herbalife and published articles on the subjects for CNBC and Seeking Alpha.

Professor Keep holds a PhD in Marketing from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (MSU) and a B.A. from James Madison College at MSU in social science and economics.

CONTACT

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ABOUT ROB CAMPAGNINO

Rob has nearly 20 years experience in the industry and within the last 5 years on the buy side at some of the top hedge funds in the business, including Pioneerpath, Diamondback Capital, and Searock Capital. Prior, he was a senior equity analyst at Prudential Securities where he was consistently Institutional Investor ranked. Before Prudential he was at Sanford Bernstein as an equity research associate covering food, beverage, and retail. He began his career as a strategic consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Rob has a MBA from Columbia and BA in Economics from Duke.

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