Meet Our Experts

David Kuo

David Kuo, (TMFDragon)

Financial Broadcaster

After completing a PhD in Chemistry at Imperial College, David returned to his hometown in Hong Kong to hone his business skills. When he returned to the UK, via Singapore, he did a stint at Hilton Group's Racing Division, where he picked up a tip or two about the world of horse racing before joining the Fool in the summer of 2000.

Married with two children, David also produces the Fool's investing podcast MoneyTalk and can be seen regularly on the BBC, Sky and CNBC. He primarily invests in a mixture of UK and US blue chips and is a keen supporter of Chelsea Football Club.

 
Maynard Paton

Maynard Paton, (TMFMayn)

Chief Investment Analyst, Champion Shares PRO

Maynard has worked at the Fool since 1999. He ran the Qualiport online portfolio on the Fool from November 1999 to September 2005 and was lead adviser for the Champion Shares stock-picking service from September 2005 to October 2009, at which time the service was relaunched as Champion Shares PRO.

Prior to joining the Fool, Maynard worked for a year as a Poll Tax clerk and then for six years at the local authority's IT department in the murky world of ICL mainframes and COBOL programming. He relocated to Kent to join a financial services firm's IT department and there discovered the joys of stock market investing. As well as keeping an eye on share prices and his local housing market, Maynard's interests include karting, martial arts and entertaining his young family.

 
Stuart Watson

Stuart Watson, (TMFTigger)

Investment Editor

Stuart spent several years as an Chartered Accountant working in both auditing and corporate finance before joining the Fool in the dizzy dotcom summer of 1999. During his bean-counting years, he worked on a wide variety of clients, including Anglo American, Sainsbury, RNIB, Woolwich Building Society, plus a tea and coffee plantation business in Africa that was angling for a London listing (it never made it unfortunately).

A keen private investor, and even keener golfer, he started as a Foolish writer before somehow ending up the site’s editor. He’s performed that role since 2001, although he did have a couple of years off for good behaviour when he worked as a freelance writer. Stuart rejoined the Fool in early 2009 when the site refocused on investing.

Jon Wallis

Jon Wallis, (TMFTarantula)

Head of Community & Customer Services

Before joining the Fool in late 2000, Jon spent 8 years working at a university, lecturing in computing and researching web search engine technology, followed by nearly four years developing robotic laboratory automation systems for the pharmaceutical industry. Jon's other previous jobs have included - wine merchant, community worker, record shop assistant, croupier, double-glazing salesman, bar tender, market researcher, actor and fire-eater. (One of those is a lie - and it's not 'fire-eater'.)

Jon now heads up the Community department of the Fool, dealing with customer service enquiries and moderating the discussion boards. In his spare time he keeps tarantulas, reads voraciously, listens to a frighteningly eclectic range of music, and cooks a great deal of curry. Jon would also like to make it clear he's not an investment expert!