Harold L. Vogel

Who is Harold L. Vogel?

Harold L. Vogel is the author of Entertainment Industry Economics: A

Guide for Financial Analysis (Sixth edition, 2004) and of the companion

volume, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis

(2001), both published by Cambridge University Press. He was ranked as

top entertainment industry analyst for a record ten years by

Institutional Investor magazine and was the senior entertainment

industry analyst at Merrill Lynch for seventeen years. A chartered

financial analyst (C.F.A.), Mr. Vogel served on the New York State

Governor's Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board and as an

adjunct professor of media economics at Columbia University's Graduate

School of Business. He is currently a venture capitalist and fund

manager specializing in early stage investments in media and

entertainment and aviation and is based in New York.

He is

also a corporate director of NearWare Networks and is on the advisory

boards of Rightsline, TransMedia, and several other companies.