Editorial team

Who writes WealthyBud

WealthyBud's research is written and independently reviewed by named contributors across real estate, stocks, ETFs and crypto. Every data-backed page carries a byline, a reviewer and a last-updated date so you know who stands behind the numbers and when they were last checked.

Real Estate

Real Estate Market Analyst

Marcus Bell

Marcus Bell leads market and career research at WealthyBud, turning public housing and labor data into plain-English answers for investors and agents. He focuses on U.S. metro housing markets, agent economics and licensing.

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Elena Park

Elena Park is a licensed real estate broker who reviews WealthyBud's licensing, salary and market guides for accuracy before publication, checking figures against primary government and regulator sources.

View profile Housing Economist

Priya Nandakumar

Priya Nandakumar is a housing economist who tracks national and regional housing-supply trends, mortgage rates and affordability using public Census and housing-starts data. She translates federal housing releases into metro-level takeaways for buyers and investors.

View profile Rental Market Analyst

Diego Alvarez-Cruz

Diego Alvarez-Cruz is a rental market analyst who covers rent growth, vacancy rates and landlord economics across major U.S. metros. He builds his analysis from public rental-listing indexes and Census housing surveys, focusing on year-over-year rent trends.

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Naomi Whitfield

Naomi Whitfield is a real estate data analyst who builds metro-level price, inventory and days-on-market datasets from public MLS aggregates and county records. She reviews WealthyBud's market pages for data accuracy before they publish.

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Samuel Okonkwo

Samuel Okonkwo is a property investment analyst who covers cap rates, cash-flow modeling and rental-property ROI for single-family and small multifamily investors. He builds his models from public rent and price data to help readers compare markets objectively.

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Lena Voss

Lena Voss is a housing market editor who fact-checks WealthyBud's market and housing-policy coverage against primary government sources before publication. She focuses on keeping metro-level statistics current as new data releases land.

View profile Mortgage Market Analyst

Andre Fontaine

Andre Fontaine is a mortgage market analyst who covers rate trends, loan products and lending standards using public Federal Reserve and HMDA data. He focuses on how financing conditions affect buyer affordability across income levels.

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Renata Kowalski

Renata Kowalski is a metro housing analyst who reviews WealthyBud's city and metro market guides, verifying figures against county and state housing records. She focuses on cross-checking price and inventory claims before they go live.

View profile Commercial Real Estate Analyst

Jasper Lindqvist

Jasper Lindqvist is a commercial real estate analyst who covers office, retail and industrial property trends, cap rates and vacancy using public REIT filings and market reports. He focuses on how commercial demand shifts ripple into residential markets.

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Stocks

Equity Research Analyst

Trevor Marsh

Trevor Marsh is an equity research analyst who covers large-cap industrial and consumer-goods equities, focusing on cash-flow quality and valuation discipline. He builds his coverage from public SEC filings and earnings releases rather than analyst consensus.

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Whitney Sato

Whitney Sato is a senior equity analyst who covers diversified large-cap equities and leads WealthyBud's stock-page review process. She checks fundamental figures against SEC EDGAR filings before any stock page publishes.

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Colin Braithwaite

Colin Braithwaite is a fundamental analyst who covers mid-cap industrial and materials companies, focusing on balance-sheet strength and earnings durability. He builds his models from public 10-K and 10-Q filings.

View profile Valuation Analyst

Priyanka Deshmukh

Priyanka Deshmukh is a valuation analyst who covers price-to-earnings, price-to-sales and dividend-yield trends across WealthyBud's stock universe. She focuses on translating raw multiples into plain-English context for retail investors.

View profile Quantitative Equity Analyst

Felix Amaro

Felix Amaro is a quantitative equity analyst who reviews WealthyBud's stock scoring methodology and checks calculated metrics for consistency across the coverage universe. He focuses on making sure scoring formulas apply the same standard to every ticker.

View profile Financials Sector Analyst

Grace Tanaka-Reed

Grace Tanaka-Reed is a financials sector analyst who covers banks, insurers and payment companies, focusing on interest-rate sensitivity and credit quality. She draws her coverage from public regulatory filings and quarterly earnings data.

View profile Technology Sector Analyst

Owen Delacroix

Owen Delacroix is a technology sector analyst who covers large-cap technology and semiconductor equities, focusing on cash-flow quality and valuation discipline. He builds his coverage from public SEC filings rather than analyst consensus estimates.

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Simone Achterberg

Simone Achterberg is a markets editor who fact-checks WealthyBud's stock and market coverage against public filings before publication. She focuses on catching stale figures as companies report new quarterly results.

View profile Healthcare Sector Analyst

Darius Okafor

Darius Okafor is a healthcare sector analyst who covers pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare-services equities, focusing on revenue durability and margin trends. He builds his coverage from public SEC filings and FDA disclosures.

View profile Small-Cap Equity Analyst

Ingrid Solberg

Ingrid Solberg is a small-cap equity analyst who reviews WealthyBud's small- and mid-cap stock pages for data accuracy against SEC filings. She focuses on companies with thinner analyst coverage where public filings are the primary source.

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ETFs

ETF Analyst

Harlan Petrov

Harlan Petrov is an ETF analyst who covers broad-market and sector ETFs, focusing on expense ratios, tracking error and holdings concentration. He builds his comparisons from public fund prospectuses and holdings disclosures.

View profile Index & Fund Strategist

Meredith Okonjo

Meredith Okonjo is an index and fund strategist who covers index construction, fund overlap and portfolio-building strategy across major ETF families. She also reviews WealthyBud's ETF pages for accuracy before they publish.

View profile Passive-Investing Specialist

Tobias Renfrew

Tobias Renfrew is a passive-investing specialist who covers low-cost index-fund strategy and long-term buy-and-hold portfolio construction. He focuses on how expense ratios and tax efficiency compound over long holding periods.

View profile Fixed-Income ETF Analyst

Yara Bosch

Yara Bosch is a fixed-income ETF analyst who covers bond ETFs, duration risk and yield-curve positioning using public fund disclosures. She reviews WealthyBud's fixed-income fund coverage for accuracy before publication.

View profile Fund Research Editor

Cormac Delgado

Cormac Delgado is a fund research editor who fact-checks WealthyBud's ETF and fund coverage against public prospectus and holdings data. He focuses on keeping expense-ratio and performance figures current as funds report new data.

View profile Sector & Thematic ETF Analyst

Ines Falkenrath

Ines Falkenrath is a sector and thematic ETF analyst who covers sector-specific and thematic funds, focusing on concentration risk and rebalancing rules. She builds her coverage from public fund holdings and methodology documents.

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Crypto

Digital Asset Analyst

Kenji Ashworth

Kenji Ashworth is a digital asset analyst who covers large-cap cryptocurrencies, focusing on network activity and market-cap trends using public blockchain explorers and exchange data. He translates on-chain metrics into plain-English market context.

View profile On-Chain Research Analyst

Bianca Rousseau

Bianca Rousseau is an on-chain research analyst who covers wallet activity, transaction volume and network-health metrics across major blockchains. She also reviews WealthyBud's crypto pages for data accuracy before publication.

View profile Crypto Markets Analyst

Elias Thorsen

Elias Thorsen is a crypto markets analyst who covers price volatility, trading volume and market-cap ranking trends for actively traded digital assets. He builds his coverage from public exchange and market-data aggregator feeds.

View profile Blockchain Researcher

Adaeze Nwosu

Adaeze Nwosu is a blockchain researcher who reviews WealthyBud's crypto coverage for technical accuracy against public protocol documentation and network data. She focuses on distinguishing verified network statistics from speculative claims.

View profile Crypto Research Editor

Pavel Sokolov

Pavel Sokolov is a crypto research editor who fact-checks WealthyBud's digital-asset coverage against public market data before publication. He focuses on keeping price and market-cap figures current in a fast-moving market.

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Talia Marchetti

Talia Marchetti is a digital asset strategist who covers portfolio allocation and risk-management approaches for digital-asset investors. She focuses on how volatility and correlation data should inform position sizing.

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Macro & Economics

Chief Markets Economist

Dominic Reyes-Halloway

Dominic Reyes-Halloway is a chief markets economist who covers interest-rate policy, inflation trends and their spillover effects across housing, equity and digital-asset markets. He also reviews cross-domain market coverage for macroeconomic accuracy.

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Astrid Kallenberg

Astrid Kallenberg is a macroeconomist who covers GDP growth, employment data and consumer-spending trends using public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Commerce Department releases. She also reviews WealthyBud's economic context sections for accuracy.

View profile Monetary Policy Analyst

Nathaniel Osei

Nathaniel Osei is a monetary policy analyst who covers Federal Reserve policy decisions and how they transmit into mortgage rates, borrowing costs and asset prices. He builds his analysis from public Federal Reserve statements and economic releases.

View profile Economic Research Editor

Fiona Castellano

Fiona Castellano is an economic research editor who fact-checks WealthyBud's macroeconomic context across housing, stock, ETF and crypto coverage. She focuses on making sure rate and inflation figures cited in market pages match the latest public releases.

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