1. Tobin Smith: Multi-Exit Digital Media Business Builder
Tobin (“Toby”) Smith is a 30-year serial digital media entrepreneur, an accomplished equities
analyst and cable media personality with over $80 million in digital media startup exits to his
credit (InvestorPlace Media LLC in 2007 and ChangeWave Research LLC in 2010). Toby has led
teams responsible for over a $billion in direct response sales of digital investment and alternative
health care newsletters and products 1995-2007.
He is currently the Founder and CEO of Transformity Media LLC (TM), a custom content
publisher and backend paid newsletter/premium services outsource and consulting provider.
TM’s mission is to bring new ways for Mass Affluent targeted digital media companies to
monetize their traffic without digital advertising. We build Market/Economy/Investing content
verticals and sell high profit newsletter subscriptions and backend premium services adding up to
15 non-ad revenue streams to digital publishers fighting declining digital ad revenues (via lower
CPMs and desktop/mobile ad blocking).
Mr. Smith serves as Editor-In-Chief of NextBigThingInvestor.com and edits the investment
newsletter Next Big Thing Investor PRO, the #1 performance ranked investment newsletter in the
U.S. with a 186% total portfolio return since since 2013. Mr. Smith is also the Chief Research
Officer of Transformity Research, an independent primary research provider focused on
identifying and valuation of transformational micro and macro economic sectors and corporations.
In 2000, Mr. Smith (in conjunction with Phillips Publishing International) founded primary research
provider ChangeWave Research, LLC and the groundbreaking expert network ChangeWave
Alliance (now part of the 451 Group). At ChangeWave Research, Mr. Smith created and edited
one of the most successful premium investment newsletters in the world ChangeWave Investing
with peak paid subscribership of over 50,000 and 300,000 free e-letter subscribers worldwide.
Toby also served as CIO for ChangeWave Capital Management LLC which managed the
ChangeWave mutual fund for Marketocracy LLC and ChangeWave Capital Partners LP hedge
fund.
He is a founding member of InvestorPlace Media LLC, one of the world's largest investment
research publishers. Mr. Smith founded InvestorPlace.com, one of the webs largest self-directed
investor research and advisory portals. Previously, Mr. Smith served as Group Publisher and
Senior Vice President of Phillips Publishing, Inc., Publisher at Practice Builder, Inc. and Managing
Director for Investment Banking at Kidder Peabody LLP.
Mr. Smith is a well-known media personality in conservative business television: 15 year
CNBC/Fox New Contributor/Fox Business Network analyst and prime time anchor) and co-
star of FNC’s “Bulls & Bears” Saturday morning business show #1 rated biz program on 13
years on Fox News
He is the author of the New York Times/WSJ/Amazon bestsellers ChangeWave Investing and
ChangeWave Investing 2.0, and Billion Dollar Green, which debuted on Amazon as a #1
bestseller. Mr. Smith has been covered and/or appeared in virtually every major financial media
and is a frequent speaker on his current economic forecast and the topic of analyzing and
investing in transformational change.
He attended the University of California Los Angeles majoring in Economics and completed
undergraduate work in Finance and Marketing at California State University at Long Beach in
1979. Toby has been married to Marjorie Sutherland-Smith for 30 years and lives full-time in
Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, AZ when not on a plane.