Ronald Fink, Executive Editor of Institutional Investor, is an award-winning journalist who has covered finance for the better part of three decades. Prior to joining II in October 2011, Fink was editor of CFO Journal, a premium edition of WSJ.com. Previously, he was executive editor of Financial Week and deputy editor of CFO Magazine.

Mr. Burkhalter has 33 years of investor relations and accounting experience in the energy industry. He joined Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in August 2002 as the Director of Investor Relations, and was promoted to Vice President in April 2008. Prior to joining Enterprise, Mr. Burkhalter was Director of Investor Relations at Parker Drilling Company for one year and previous to that Director of Investor Relations at Reliant Energy, Inc. for six years. His experience at Reliant Energy included two years as the head of Investor Relations at NorAm Energy Corp. before it merged with Reliant Energy. He is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute and is a CPA (inactive) in Texas. Mr. Burkhalter graduated with a B.B.A. degree in accounting from Lamar University located in Beaumont, Texas.

Mr. John Sweeney serves as the Vice President of Investor Relations for Sirona Dental Systems, Inc., where he is responsible for developing and executing the Company’s financial and investor communications program. John has received numerous accolades and awards for excellence in investor relations, and was recently voted “IR Professional of the Year” in the 2012 Institutional Investor Magazine All-America Executive Team survey. Mr. Sweeney was also nominated by IR Magazine as one of the “Best IR Professionals” (mid-cap) in its 2012 US survey. From 2003 to 2006, John was Director of Investor Relations at Weight Watchers International, Inc., and before that he worked as an Associate Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup covering the advertising and newspaper sectors.

John is a member of the CFA Institute, the National Investor Relations Institute (“NIRI”) and NIRI’s Senior Roundtable. Mr. Sweeney holds an MBA in Finance from The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is a CFA Charterholder. John grew up in Dublin, Ireland and now lives on Long Island with his wife, Erin, and their two children.