Dana Telsey

Dana Telsey is the CEO and Chief Research Officer of Telsey Advisory Group, which she founded in 2006. With 115 companies under coverage, including apparel manufacturers, casino operators, casual dining restaurants, children and teen retailers, consumer electronics, department stores, discounters, fast casual and specialty restaurants, gaming technology, home furnishings, lodging, luxury goods, off-price retailers, quick service restaurants, specialty apparel retailers, sporting goods, and supermarkets, Telsey Advisory Group has grown to be a leading independent equity research and consulting firm, focusing on the consumer space.

Ms. Telsey has followed over 70 companies during her 24-year career and was the only U.S. based analyst to provide complete analysis of the European luxury goods sector. From 1994 to 2006, Ms. Telsey was at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. covering the retail sector, most recently as a Senior Managing Director. Prior to working at Bear Stearns, Ms. Telsey was the Retail Analyst at C.J. Lawrence and Vice President of the Baron Asset Fund at Baron Capital, Inc.

Ms. Telsey is a thirteen-year member of Institutional Investor magazine’s “All-America Research Team” where she was ranked the Number One Specialty Stores analyst for 7 consecutive years through 2005. In 2009, Ms. Telsey was ranked the Number One Specialty Stores analyst and Number One Broadlines & Department Stores analyst by Institutional Investor magazine’s “All-America Independent Research Team.”

She has appeared as a special guest on such programs as Wall Street Week, ABC News, The NBC Evening News and The Today Show and is a regular guest analyst on both CNN and CNBC. Ms. Telsey is a frequent contributor to Luxury Briefing, the leading luxury goods industry publication, and WGSN (Worth Global Style Network), an online research, trend analysis and news service for the fashion and style industries.

Ms. Telsey graduated from Hobart-William Smith Colleges with a B.A. degree in History and Spanish and received her M.B.A from Fordham University. She holds the Series 7, 24, 63, 66, 86, and 87 Licenses.