Christopher Dixon Will Oversee Media Investments for Gabelli; Focus Includes Public and Private Sector Companies.Business Editors RYE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2004 Christopher Dixon, former managing director and global strategist for the UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Global Media Equity Research team, has joined Gabelli Group Capital Partners, Inc. (GGCP GGCP Gabelli Group Capital Partners (Rye, NY) ) as a managing director. GGCP is the private investment arm of the Gabelli group of companies. He will be involved in identifying, analyzing and investing in public and private media opportunities. Mr. Dixon is a ten-times member of Institutional Investor's All-American Research Team in the entertainment category, and was cited as one of the "Best on the Street" by the Wall Street Journal in 2001 for his research in the cable TV sector. "Chris brings our already outstanding reputation for research and investments in the media sector to a new level," said Mario Gabelli Mario Joseph Gabelli (born June 19, 1942) is an American stock investor, investment advisor and financial analyst. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors (GAMCO Investors) a $30 billion dollar global investment firm headquartered in Rye, . "He knows this business from the ground up, beginning as a producer and director of his own television programs to becoming one of the top analysts in the business." "The Gabelli organization has been a leading investor in media for many years. I'm extraordinarily honored to join the Gabelli team and I look forward to working with early stage media companies to help refine business plans and establish strategies to make money for investors", said Dixon Mr. Dixon began his Wall Street career in 1987 as a vice president/equity analyst for Kidder Peabody, Inc. In 1991 he joined Paine Webber Paine Webber and Company was an American stock brokerage firm that was acquired by the Swiss bank UBS AG in 2000. The company was founded in 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Alfred Paine and Wallace G. Webber. Inc, where he rose to managing director overseeing equity research in cable TV and entertainment. He became a senior member of the UBS media equity research team when it merged with Paine Webber in 2000. His career also included being the principal of Christopher Dixon Inc., an independent filmmaker, producer and director of television commercials and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, specials. A producer and moderator of the UBS/Paine Webber Media Conference, he has provided strategic advice to senior management at major entertainment enterprises. Gabelli Group Capital Partners is the privately owned family firm that controls Gabelli Asset Management, Inc (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GBL GBL Gamma-Butyrolactone GBL government bill of lading (US DoD) GBL Ground-Based Laser GBL Game Boy Light GBL General Bearing Line GBL Generation Breakdown List GBL Ground-Based Laboratory GBL Green Bus Lines, Inc. ) and its subsidiaries. |
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