OLD Media Moves

Activist hedge funds want to add Fenwick to TheStreet board

March 16, 2016

Posted by Chris Roush

L_Fenwick_200x266Two activist hedge funds that own a stake in TheStreet.com want the financial news company to add former Dow Jones and Bloomberg executive Lex Fenwick to its board, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly writes, “FiveT Capital and Spear Point Capital, two activist hedge funds that successfully lobbied for the ouster of CEO Elisabeth DeMarse, are now pushing for Lex Fenwick, a former top executive at Dow Jones and Bloomberg, to get a seat on the board along with FiveT head Johannes M. Roth.

“The funds together control about 9.77 percent of the common stock and have met with acting CEO Larry Kramer.

“Fenwick, who is known to favor purple suits, is the former CEO of Dow Jones and Bloomberg LP, where he was Mike Bloomberg’s longtime right-hand man.”

Read more here. And here is the SEC filing.

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