: About Me

Knowledgeable professional with 5+ years familiarity in Investment/Portfolio Management. Have worked as Equity Research Associate, Assistant to the GM and Investment & Insurance Advisor. Have modeled Financial Plan as part of Business Plan (2007) and Capital Budget Template (2011). Vast experience as a Business and Finance writer.

Christina currently serves as Root Channel Manager of Society & Lifestyle Channel. Her responsibilities include, but are not limited to, overseeing all S&L sub-channels and working closely with Channel Managers. She is responsible for writing, rating, grading, reporting and providing constructive feedback on articles, adding experience and professional perspective to Helium’s large writing community,  providing community leadership and editorial oversight and recruiting new Channel Managers.

Christina also serves as Channel Manager of Economic Values in the Society & Lifestyle Channel and as Channel Manager of Finance & Insurance in the Business Channel.

From August 2010 to June 2011, Christina has been a Helium Distance Learning Writer for the University of Phoenix in Business, Sustainability, Social Sciences and IT.

Besides, Christina is Business & Finance Contributor at Yahoo! Contributor Network. Also, since January 2011, she is approved to contribute her knowledge to Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! News.

Yahoo! Finance:

1. First Person: I Paid Off $27,000 in Student Loan Debt in 3 Years

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/First-Person-I-Paid-Off-27-ac-3644748010.html?x=0

2. First Person: I Saved 35% With a Home Energy Audit

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/First-Person-I-Saved-35-With-ac-2617051481.html?x=0

3. First Person: How Risk Aversion Impacts The Stock Market

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/First-Person-How-Risk-ac-3801477943.html?x=0

4. First Person: How the Use of Color in Marketing Influences Consumer Behavior

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/First-Person-How-Use-Color-ac-498802423.html?x=0

Yahoo! News:

1. Housing Market Sinking Further in Major U.S. Cities

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110331/bs_ac/8179971_housing_market_sinking_further_in_major_us_cities

Other publications by Christina Pomoni @ oboulo.com :

1. Bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy implementation

2. Capital Budgeting Methods

3. Characteristics of effective leadership - A comparison between theory and business reality

4. Creative Tension in Learning Organizations and the role of Leadership

5. Economic Activity, Investments and Technological Policy

6. Economic Integration & centrally planned economies

7. Efficient capital markets and the importance of Behavioral Finance

8. Employee commitment - A comparison between theory and business reality

9. Forecasting in a travel agency - Flaws and improvements

10. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) theories: An overview of the main FDI theories

11. Human Resources Management - Challenges and Controlling Mechanisms

12. International trade theories - An overview from Mercantilism to Porter’s Diamond

13. Narcissistic Leadership - Its traits and their impact on strategy implementation

14. Risk Management and the use of Derivatives

15. Team Effectiveness - How can it be achieved - An analysis of the team attributes that could contribute to team effectiveness

16. Team structures in strategy implementation

17. The executive mind

18. The importance of emotional intelligence in a knowledge economy

19. The importance of leadership pattern in strategy implementation - A discussion on authoritative and democratic leadership and their impact on strategy implementation

20. The political theory of Totalitarianism and its relationship to Terrorism

21. The roles of a manager - A comparison between theory and business reality

22. Top-Down or Bottom-Up Valuation Process

23. TQM in Services

24. Were Bulgaria and Romania ready to join the EU

25. Working out problems results in better problem solving performance

Education: MBA Finance from the American College of Greece with High Distinction.

Christina Pomoni can be found at:

http://www.cpomoni.com/

http://thefinancetrick.blogspot.com

http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/432942/christina_pomoni.html

http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/432942/christina_pomoni.html?site_id=388

http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/432942/christina_pomoni.html?site_id=372

http://gr.linkedin.com/in/christinapomoni

http://www.facebook.com/christina.pomoni

https://twitter.com/ChristinaPomoni

http://www.christinapomoni.wordpress.com

My passion is ...

finance, music and life

I know too much about ...

music, but still long way to go...

My parents always told me ...

to be honest

My childhood ambition ...

to become pro volleyball player - i did for a while :)

My favorite memory ...

playing with a golden retriever at Evanston, IL

Why I write ...

to take it out of my system

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

anything that can stimulate my thought and emotion

My first job ...

sucked!

My best moment ...

meeting my father after 35 years

My inspiration ...

my mother

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Writing:

Rating:

• Channel Manager Society & Lifestyle
• Marketplace Premier Writer
• 63Writing Contest Winner
• Marketplace Approved Writer
• 3Marketplace Articles Sold
• Financial Services Professional
• Channel Manager Economic Values
• Channel Manager Finance & Insurance
• Helium Charter Member