Managing Director and Founder of GloboTrends

Brian Butler is a specialist in international economic analysis.

As a global-macro analyst, Brian founded “GloboTrends“, (http://blog.globotrends.com) an online site for macro-economic trend analysis, with a focus on global investors. The highly popular “GloboTrends blog” is prominently displayed on Thunderbird’s MBA website, and has been featured as syndicated content on Nouriel Roubini’s RGE Monitor, Emerginvest.com, Business Week Exchange, Wikinvest.com, and other reputable news outlets.

In 2008, Brian facilitated classes in international finance, economics and trade at Thunderbird’s Global MBA program in Miami. Previously, Brian worked with NextLogics, a boutique investment and consulting firm focused on early stage endeavors with social impact. While working with NextLogics, he worked with “Global Social Capital”: a peer-to-peer micro lending / micro finance platform for Latin America. Brian also developed business plans for a WiFi mesh network for Brazil which involved WiFi infrastructure investment project for the NE of Brazil. In New York, Brian previously was a financial analyst with the “Columbia Institute of Tele-Information” (of the Columbia Business School), focusing on new technologies and innovative business models. His research was packaged, and presented to Wall Street firms and industry analysts.

A global citizen…Brian was born in Canada, raised in Switzerland (where he attended British schools), educated in the USA, started his career with a Japanese company, moved to New York to work as a financial analyst, married a Brazilian, and has traveled extensively in Latin America, Asia, Europe and North America.

In June 2008, Brian graduated with an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he graduated top of his class, Valedictorian, with a 3.977 GPA (out of 4.0).