Matt Nesto -- Correspondent and Co-host
Prior to joining Yahoo! Finance, Matt Nesto was a correspondent and stocks editor for CNBC, where he was best known for his coverage of breaking news and his signature market-mover pieces that highlighted trends, trading anomalies and opportunities in the markets.
Matt also spent nine years at Bloomberg Television, where he covered financial markets from five different countries. He began his expat tour in Tokyo in 1998 before moving on to Malaysia, Singapore, London and New York, where he served as anchor of the "Morning Call" program.
Before joining Bloomberg, Matt spent six years as a financial consultant and investment adviser for Lehman Brothers, Prudential Securities and Merrill Lynch. He earned a bachelor's degree from Emerson College in Boston. Follow Matt on Twitter at @mattnesto or email him at nestobreakout@yahoo.com.
Jeff Macke -- Correspondent and Co-host
Jeff Macke has spent his career as a professional investor and financial commentator. As founder and president of Macke Asset Management (MAM), Jeff actively managed money until 2005. Prior to founding MAM, he was a partner and co-founder of Macke Partners, an investment partnership.
He also has been an analyst with Palo-Alto Investors and a consultant with Senn-Delaney Retail Consultants, where he developed the associate training program for Sears and worked on projects for a wide variety of Fortune 500 retailers.
Jeff was a founding cast member of CNBC's "Fast Money," and he has written columns appearing on TheStreet.com, Minyanville, "The Week" and other publications.
He has a master's of business administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. Follow Jeff on Twitter at @jeffmacke or email him at mackebreakout@yahoo.com.
Aaron Task -- Correspondent
Aaron Task is the host of "The Daily Ticker" (nee "Tech Ticker") and an award-winning journalist. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2008, he was editor-at-large of The Street.com, were he spent 10 years in a variety of roles, including San Francisco bureau chief.
With Barry Ritholtz, Aaron co-authored "Bailout Nation," and he is a sought-after commentator on financial markets, economics and related public policy. Aaron is a regular guest on Fox Business, MSNBC, "The John Bachelor Show" and other media outlets.
He holds bachelor's degrees in history and journalism from Rutgers College, and he has been a guest lecturer at Rutgers, NYU, Santa Clara University and Dartmouth's Tuck School. You can follow him on Twitter at @atask or email him at altask@yahoo.com.
Diane Galligan -- Executive Producer and Managing Editor
Diane Galligan joined Yahoo! Finance in 2007 and became managing editor in 2008. Since that time, Yahoo! Finance has seen its audience surge to more than 40 million monthly unique users, which represents a nearly 50% share of the online financial space. Diane created and launched "Tech Ticker" in 2008 and "Breakout" in 2011, uniting the highest broadcast-quality standards with the best of the Web.
Prior to joining Yahoo! Finance, she spent six years as a top producer at CNBC. She started her career in television financial journalism at CNN Financial News. Diane earned a bachelor's degree in history from Pomona College.
Jennifer Carinci -- Producer
Jennifer Carinci joined Yahoo! Finance in early 2011 as the producer of "Breakout." Prior to that, Carinci spent nearly a decade as a producer at several top outlets, including CNBC, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel.
She has covered many major breaking news events, ranging from the financial meltdown to the death of Pope John Paul II. Jenn earned a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a bachelor's degree from Villanova University.
Morgan Korn -- Segment Producer
Morgan Korn is a segment producer for Yahoo! Finance's "Breakout." She has previously worked at CNBC, Conde Nast Traveler, The Huffington Post and MTV.
Morgan has a master's degree in public policy and international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and marketing management from Syracuse University.
Chris Nichols -- Assistant Managing Editor
Chris Nichols leads investing coverage at Yahoo! Finance. He has been a business journalist since 1996. Before joining Yahoo! Finance in 2009, he spent seven years at TheStreet.com, including three as managing editor. While at TheStreet, he was responsible for the day-to-day management of the site. He also edited reporters covering the stock market, airlines, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, energy, metals and currencies. In addition, he created and wrote the Dow Watch blog.
He previously worked for a year and a half at Bloomberg, where he served as an editor on the headlines desk. He began his career in business news with a four-year stint at Dow Jones Newswires on the spot news desk. Chris has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
