Welcome to The Little Book Stock Picking

 Josh Pearl is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hickory Lane Capital Management LP, an equity long/short investment firm. He oversees equity investments and special situations utilizing a fundamentals-based approach, primarily in the technology / media / telecommunications (TMT), industrials, and consumer sectors. 

Prior to founding Hickory Lane, for nine years he served as a Managing Director and Partner at Brahman Capital, an equity long/short fund focused on investing with best-in-class management teams. Prior to his investing career, he spent eight years as an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank, Moelis & Company, and Deutsche Bank focusing on high yield financings, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, activism, and board advisory. 

He is also the co-author of several books and courses, including The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros, Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, Investment Banking Workbook, Investment Banking Focus Notes, and the Wiley Efficient Learning Investment Banking Prep Course

He has been profiled across numerous media outlets including CNBC, Institutional Investor, AlphaWeek, Bloomberg Markets, Newsmax, The UK Telegraph, The Charles Mizrahi Show, The Princeton Financier, and Harvard College Investment Magazine.

Josh Pearl is a graduate of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and currently lives in New York, New York.

Josh Rosenbaum is a Managing Director and Head of the Industrials & Diversified Services Group at RBC Capital Markets. He originates, structures, and advises on M&A, corporate finance, and capital markets transactions. Previously, he worked at UBS Investment Bank and the International Finance Corporation, the direct investment division of the World Bank. He received his AB from Harvard and his MBA with Baker Scholar honors from Harvard Business School. He is also the co-author of Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs and The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros.