Rory Maher, CFA
Rory Maher, CFA is Director of TBI Research.
For six years, Rory was an equity analyst at Prudential, Robertson Stephens and SG Cowen covering media and entertainment. Since then, he has founded two music companies—Rothko Presents, a concert-promotion business, and more recently, Baeble Media, a site that streams full-length concerts, offers live-music downloads, and distributes/licenses that content to third parties. Currently, Rory is Director of TBI Research.
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