Neal Ochsner

is a financial and strategic consultant whose clients have included many Fortune 500 companies. He was formerly a top executive at iDefense, a pioneering information security intelligence company, as well as an officer of Cowen and Company and A.G. Edwards & Sons, both major stock brokerage and investment banking firms. He has an A.B. from Harvard College and is the author of Common Sense Real Estate and How to Make Basic Investment Decisions.