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Del Castillo departing Fortune to create consulting firm

Michael del Castillo

Fortune senior reporter Michael del Castillo is leaving the publication to start his own consulting and research firm.

He has been at the publication for the past year covering banks with a focus on how new tech is changing Wall Street.

He has been at Forbes for the past five years covering cryptocurrencies. Del Castillo joined Forbes from CoinDesk, where he covered cryptocurrency and blockchain applications since March 2016.

Before that, del Castillo was a founding reporter at Upstart Business Journal, where his technology stories were nationally syndicated in the New York Business Journal, Silicon Valley Business Journal, and other national markets.

He focused on New York City-based technology startups specializing in robots, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technology.

De Castillo holds a bachelor’s degree from Mercer University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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