Zach Kouwe

Zach Kouwe is a director at Dukas Public Relations in New York. He specializes in media strategy for financial services firms including hedge funds and private equity firms.

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Zach Kouwe is a public relations executive with Dukas Public Relations in New York. He specializes in finance and investment management, including hedge funds and private equity firms. He is also former business journalist, having worked as a staff reporter at The New York Times, The New York Post, and Dow Jones Newswires.  In addition to strategic media relations counsel and message development, Zach Kouwe assists in writing and editing white papers, Op-Eds, web content and speeches.Zach Kouwe served as a researcher for Joe Nocera (New York Times Columnist) and Bethany McLean (Vanity Fair Contributing Editor) on their best-selling book, "All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis." (Published in Nov. 2010) He also conducted fact-checking and research for "Debt, Deficits and the Demise of the American Economy," a book by Peter J. Tanous and CNBC.com writer Jeff Cox, which was published in the Spring of 2011.Zach Kouwe began his journalism career in 2000 as a reporter for Wall Street Letter, a financial newsletter published by Institutional Investor. In 2002, he edited Institutional Investor's Spring ETF Report, a publication on the then-burgeoning market for exchange-traded funds (ETFs.)He joined The Times in 2008 as a reporter for the popular DealBook blog. At The Times, he wrote, co-wrote or contributed to more than 1,600 articles and blog posts. Before the The Times, Zach Kouwe authored 969 articles for the New York Post'sbusiness section as the paper's chief mergers & acquisitions and private equity reporter. He gained the attention of the financial journalism community by being the first to report that then New York Stock Exchange CEO John Thain had been named as the new head of Merrill Lynch, just as the Financial Crisis was taking hold. Zach Kouwe was part of a team of reporters at The Times named as finalists for a Gerald Loeb Award for their reporting on the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi scheme in 2009 and was one of the paper's lead reporters covering the massive insider trading case centered on the Galleon Group hedge fund and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam. 

Director at Dukas Public Relations

February 2011 - Present

Provide strategic public and media relations counsel including social media strategies, to financial services professionals including hedge funds, asset management firms and corporate executives. Develop and implement detailed strategic plans that leverage a variety of media channels, including traditional and social media, to enhance and strengthen clients' reputations. Ghostwrite bylined articles, speeches, investor letters, white papers and other deliverables.

Researcher at "All the Devils are Here" - a best-selling book on the Financial Crisis

February 2010 - August 2010

Provided research, conducted interviews, fact-checked and searched historical records, for New York Times columnist Joe Nocera and Vanity Fair writer Bethany McLean for their forthcoming book on the history of the financial crisis. The book is called "All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis" and is published by Portfolio.

Finance Reporter at The New York Times

November 2008 - February 2010

Wrote breaking stories on Wall Street and finance for the DealBook blog as well as the Business Day section of the paper.

Reporter at New York Post

August 2005 - September 2008

Business Reporter

Private Equity Analyst at Dow Jones

May 2004 - September 2005

Broke daily stories for LBO Wire, a private equity industry publication on leveraged-buyouts and related mergers & acquisitions. Wrote feature stories on the private equity industry for the Private Equity Analyst. Moderated panels at industry conferences

Reporter at Denver Post

2003 - 2003

Covered city courts and police and general business news

Reporter at Wall Street Letter

August 2000 - September 2001

Researched and wrote news stories covering domestic and international stock exchanges. After leaving in Fall 2001, I wrote and edited Institutional Investor's Spring ETF Report (June 2002 and June 2003) as a freelance writer.

University of Colorado at Boulder

2002 – 2004

M.A.

Hamilton College

1996 – 2000

B.A.

Concentration: Economics, History

Tampa Preparatory

1992 – 1996

U.S. History, books, movies, golf, Florida news, media, journalism