Brian Dobson heads Chardan's Disruptive Technologies equity research product offering. He has more than 15 years of experience analyzing publicly traded securities for leading investment banks. Prior to joining Chardan, Mr. Dobson held senior research positions at Jefferies and Nomura Instinet where he was responsible for U.S. lodging, leisure, cruise line, timeshare, and lodging REIT equity research.

Prior to joining Nomura Instinet, Brian Dobson analyzed publicly traded Gaming, Lodging, and Leisure stocks for the equity research departments of Lazard Capital Markets, and Susquehanna International Group. In addition, Mr. Dobson covered consumer retail equities at The Buckingham Research Group. He started his career on Wall Street at Prudential Equity Group writing research on a variety of sectors and specialized in Closed End Fund research.

Mr. Dobson graduated from Marist College with a BS in business administration and received an MBA with a focus in Finance & Real Estate from the University of Connecticut.