About Track.com

Mission Statement

Track.com is the global marketplace for research ideas. It is a place where qualified contributors can share their stock, commodity and macro ideas with a unique group of institutional investors, high net worth individuals and other thoughtful market participants.

We are an independent platform for investment research and market ideas. Our content is submitted by highly qualified professionals with proven track records and a developed understanding of what is required to produce thoughtful research. We offer our contributors a unique distribution channel to a growing base of institutional money managers in search of top-quality, real-time research, as well as the general public. We provide filtering, messaging and alerting tools so that our readers can access what they want as soon as it is available to them.

Our management team has over seventy years of experience in financial services at top tier firms.

Robert Savage (Chief Executive Officer)

Before joining Track.com as Chief Executive Officer, Bob served as Managing Director of Foreign Exchange Macro Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely-read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Bob worked as the head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Banc of America Securities.

Bob earned a BA in Political Philosophy from Yale University.

John Frankel (Co-founder)

John Frankel is a founder of Track.com as well as President of ff Asset Management LLC, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage companies looking to become low-cost, disruptive players in their respective industries. John has been an early-stage venture investor for the past decade, with a broad portfolio of investments, and has considerable experience advising start-ups and working with entrepreneurs across a variety of industries.

John worked at Goldman Sachs in a number of roles, including hedge fund research sales, technology development, and financial analysis. Prior to his twenty-one years at Goldman Sachs, John worked in the audit and insolvency divisions of Arthur Anderson.

John has served on the boards of Alerts.com,  ClearPath Immigration, Klout, Patents.com, Quigo Technologies,  StrongTech, and The Goldman Sachs Trust Company, and as a member of the board of advisors of Phone.com and OrcaOne.

John earned a MA in Mathematics and Philosophy from New College, Oxford and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Elaine Laurence (General Counsel)

Prior to joining Track.com as General Counsel, Elaine Laurence founded Laurence Associates, which provides legal expertise in the areas of technology, data, outsourcing, intellectual property, e-commerce, privacy, data protection and corporate services. Elaine has significant expertise in handling intellectual property, technology and multi-jurisdictional transaction issues facing financial services institutions of all sizes.

Previously, Elaine spent two years as a partner at Clifford Chance and the preceding sixteen years at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Sachs Elaine was Vice President, Associate General Counsel, and Legal Director for Technology, Intellectual Property and Contracts. Elaine began her career at Automatic Data Processing, where she had full responsibility for legal matters in the company's Financial Services Group.

Elaine Laurence received a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a BA from City University of New York and is admitted to practice in New York State.

Richard Frankel (Chief Technology Officer)

Before serving as Track.com's Chief Technology Officer, Richard Frankel previously worked at NASA Ames Research Center, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, AMD, and Quigo Technologies.

Richard recently completed his MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.  He received his BS in Computer Science, with minors in Philosophy and Modern Hebrew, from Georgetown University.