Head of Training at Frontline Analysts. Former award-winning equity analyst at Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas. Author, FT contributor, and the person responsible for how our analysts learn to think.
Dan spent over 15 years as an equity analyst covering European banks, first at Credit Suisse and then at BNP Paribas. His team at Credit Suisse was top-ranked by Extel and Institutional Investor. He holds a first-class degree from Oxford and an MSc in Finance from London Business School.
At Frontline, Dan is responsible for the training programme that every analyst completes before they begin client work — three months of intensive, full-time training that covers not just technical analysis but how to write, how to communicate, and how to exercise judgement under pressure. The same way analysts have been trained in the City for decades, but structured and deliberate rather than left to osmosis.
Dan's approach to training is informed by his own experience of what separates a good analyst from a useful one: the ability to have a view, defend it, and know when to change it. That's what he teaches.
Every analyst who works with Frontline's clients has been trained by Dan or by the programme he designed. The training covers live coverage initiation, model review, draft iteration, and the communication skills that determine whether an offshore analyst is treated as a colleague or a contractor. The goal is analysts who get it — who understand why the work matters, not just how to do it.
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