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Adrian Dearnell, a Franco-American financial journalist, is currently the founder and CEO of EuroBusiness Media, after having been an anchorman for several TV and radio stations, including Bloomberg TV, BFM Radio and Radio Classique.

Career
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, and then Brown University in 1994, Adrian first worked for ABC News in Paris, and then for Bloomberg TV in London. He subsequently became the main anchor for Bloomberg TV in France, conducting more than 3,000 interviews with market strategists, chief economists, financial analysts, portfolio managers, and a majority of the CEOs of publicly-traded companies in France.

In 2002, Adrian founded EuroBusiness Media, a new media company that specializes in the production and distribution of web TV interviews with CEOs of publicly-traded companies. These web TV interviews are branded ‘CEO-Direct’ interviews, and today many large-cap companies use ‘CEO-Direct’ to boost their financial and corporate communications. CEO-Direct interviews are broadcast worldwide to a targeted audience of institutional investors and financial analysts.

As a bilingual financial journalist, Adrian is regularly called upon to do media-trainings for CEOs of large companies, or to act as interviewer/moderator for corporate conferences and seminars.

Adrian is the former President of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris – the oldest foreign correspondents association in France – which he continues to support actively.

Personal Life
In his spare time, Adrian is also a semi-professional jazz musician, playing the double bass in several jazz bands, and continuing to study the double bass with the renowned jazz bassist Pierre Boussagnet.

Trivia
Adrian Dearnell appears in a cameo role, playing himself, in the Hollywood blockbuster movie The Transporter.