Immediate Past President, CFA Society of Minnesota Board of Directors

Tony Carideo, CFA
The Carideo Group
tony@carideogroup.com
612-317-2880

Tony Carideo is president of The Carideo Group Inc., a corporate communications counseling firm in Minneapolis, MN.  Prior to establishing his own firm, he was a Senior Vice President in the Investor Relations practice at Padilla Speer Beardsley Inc., the Director of Investor Relations and Treasury Operations at Net Perceptions (a retail and business intelligence software company based in Edina, MN), and held a similar role at Information Advantage (an intelligence software firm).  From 1995 until 1999, he was an analyst and Director of Research at John G. Kinnard & Co., of Minneapolis, and spent a year at Boatmen's Trust Company in St. Louis as a Senior Vice President in Institutional Sales and Marketing.  Tony spent most of his early career as a journalist with 14 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a business columnist and reporter, and six years with the Milwaukee Journal.  During his 21-year journalism career, Tony has won more than 10 national and regional awards and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.