A native of Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Bell worked as an investment reporter and editor with The Globe and Mail for 12 years prior to joining BNN. Bell is a keen student of investing idiocy and corporate blunders, relishing the opportunity to examine stocks and mutual funds.

Bell gives his blunt, well-researched assessment on the hot stocks of the day and takes viewers through the detailed numbers while asking experts the tough questions, giving viewers the hard truth about personal investing. Bell is the author of Mutual Funds for Canadians for Dummies.

Andrew Willis has been covering capital markets in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business for more than a decade. The London, Ont., native follows the deals, the deal-makers and the street's scoundrels and has spent the past 20 years either keeping tabs on investment banks, or working at one. Willis co-authored a book on the Bre-X fraud in 1997.

Brett Harris is the Western Bureau Chief for the Business News Network. Brett was one of the original cast members of BNN when it launched in September 1999 and has helped build the specialty channel into Canada’s premier broadcast source for business and capital markets news.

He hosted the popular phone-in show, Market Call, and developed and hosted BNN’s first weekend show, This Week in Business. Prior to BNN, Brett spent 10 years with CBC Television and Radio as a reporter, political correspondent, host and documentary producer.

Frances Horodelski has over 25 years of experience working with two of Canada's largest investment dealers. Her career has spanned research, portfolio advice, investment banking and international strategy. She also holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She has held a variety of roles, including senior management, and was appointed one of only a handful of women directors at RBC Dominion Securities in the 1990s.

One of the founding anchors at the network, Howard Green spent seven years at BNN (formerly Report on Business Television) before heading to Columbia University in 2006. Green was honoured by the school with a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business and economic journalism. Green began his reporting career in 1980 and started covering business in 1988.

Jacquie McNish is a senior writer with The Globe and Mail. She is the winner of numerous awards including two national newspaper awards and the 2005 National Business Book Award for Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, which she co-authored with Sinclair Stewart. McNish is also the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller The Big Score: Robert Friedland and the Voisey's Bay Hustle.

Kim Parlee joined BNN during its infancy in 2001 and has worked as anchor, markets editor and technology reporter at the network. Parlee launched her journalism career at CBC Newsworld, but her in-depth knowledge of business evolved from working in finance at a number of blue-chip companies in Canada and abroad.

Following that, she taught marketing at Dalhousie University, and helped start a technology venture capital company in Toronto. Parlee holds a commerce degree from the University of Guelph, an International MBA from York University and has done post-graduate work at IESA, one of South America’s top business schools located in Caracas, Venezuela.

Larry Berman is Chief Information Officer and Founder of ETF Capital Management. Drawing from his broad experience, Berman blends fundamentals with expert technical analysis to help BNN viewers uncover opportunities in the marketplace.

Prior to founding ETFCM, Berman was Chief Technical Strategist and Managing Director for CIBC WorldMarkets since 1997. He was Senior Technical Analyst for Thomson IFR in Boston, and Senior Technical Analyst and Trader for Marleau, Lemire Futures in Toronto.

Linda Nazareth has been the Senior Economic Analyst for BNN since 1999. Prior to joining the network, Nazareth was a senior economist with CIBC, and earlier in her career she was an economist with the federal government. Nazareth is an author and an expert on the economic effects of demographic and social change; her newest book is titled, The Leisure Economy.

Nazareth holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics, both from the University of Toronto.

Linda Sims brings 20 years of business journalism experience to BNN. A news producer in the mid-80s, Sims became part of the team that created CBC’s flagship business program Venture. She traveled throughout Canada, the U.S., and around the world during that time, reporting to Canadians about the business world at home and abroad; Sims’ work earned her a Gemini Award.

In 1997, Sims moved to CTV, where she worked for 10 years as business anchor at CTV Toronto, Canada AM, and CTV Newsnet. Sims joined BNN in 2007.

Mark Bunting joined the BNN team in 2001. In 2002, Bunting left the network and moved to CTV Newsnet and CFRB Radio in Toronto, where he was a business editor; he was also the host of Investors Online.

Bunting rejoined BNN in 2004 then departed for the United Kingdom to assume the role of BNN’s London Bureau Chief for three years. Bunting returned to Canada in 2007 and now delivers stocks and strategy reports to BNN viewers from the network’s Toronto-based headquarters each trading day.

Now approaching his 20th year involved in the global financial markets, Martin Baccardax joins the BNN team from London, where he was previously co-host of the Closing Bell and Europe Tonight programmes on CNBC Europe.

A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Baccardax began his career in finance in 1990 and spent eight years as a fixed income broker and government bond salesman in Toronto, New York and London before making the transition to financial journalism, taking his debt-market expertise from small publications to Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal.

Martin Cej has covered financial markets in Europe, Canada and the U.S. for more than a decade. He managed Bloomberg News' European equities desk from London for four years before moving to Toronto where he acted as Bloomberg's Markets Editor, responsible for stock, bond and currency coverage.

After a stint in San Francisco as Global Markets Editor and columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com, the world's number-one financial news site, Cej returned to Canada to help launch GlobeinvestorGOLD.com, Canada's premier subscription-only financial website.

In addition to hosting some of BNN’s top rated programs, viewers may also recognize Michael Hainsworth for his work distilling the day’s financial news on local CTV newscasts across the country and for CTV Newsnet. Hainsworth made the transition into television after 11 years in radio; six of those were spent as news anchor and business reporter for Canada’s largest radio station, 680 News in Toronto.

When not reporting the day’s financial news, Hainsworth can be found devouring the latest technology stories; he is a self confessed “computer geek.”

Before joining BNN in 2001, Michael Kane was the markets editor on the CanWest Global-TV show Prime Business with Deirdre McMurdy. Kane began his broadcast career in radio at CJOY in Guelph, Ontario before spending eight years in and around Prince George, B.C. at CJCI 620.

Kane was operations manager at CKSY-FM in Chatham, Ontario before becoming senior editor and newscaster on a Toronto-based national wire service, Standard Broadcast News; and he was the morning line-up editor at 680News when it was converted from rock station CFTR.