Melius Research (Melius), announced that Karen Short will join the firm as a Managing Director and Head of Consumer and Retail Research.

Ms. Short was most recently a Managing Director at Credit Suisse, covering Food, Hardlines and Broadlines Retailing. Prior to Credit Suisse, Ms. Short was a Managing Director at Barclays Plc and Deutsche Bank. She started her equity research career in 1999 at Lehman Brothers. Prior to her career in equity research, Ms. Short spent five years in Energy sales and trading.

Ms. Short holds a B.A. from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

“Karen is a leading resource in the Consumer and Retail ecosystem and we are excited about her continuing to expand the content footprint at Melius Research,” said Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. “With Karen’s addition, along with Ben Reitzes’ a year ago, Melius now has an opportunity to augment the industrial expertise upon which we started the firm 7 years ago and also deliver a world class offering across both the Consumer and Technology verticals.”

Throughout her 25+ year career on Wall Street, Ms. Short has been ranked number one, two or three in Institutional Investor magazine ten times.

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