Gary Alexander is currently Senior Writer at Navellier.com, where he edits MarketMail, including his own Growth Mail column.  For the previous 20 years, he was Senior Executive Editor at InvestorPlace Media (formerly Phillips Publishing), where he edited market experts like Richard Band, John Dessauer, Elaine Garzarelli, Louis Navellier, and FreedomFest founder Mark Skousen. Prior to that, Gary edited Wealth Magazine and Gold Newsletter for Jim Blanchard’s Jefferson Financial in New Orleans in the 1980s.  He began his financial newsletter career with Robert Kephart’s KCI Communications in 1980, where he served as consulting editor for Personal Finance.  Politically, he ran for the Virginia State House of Delegates in 1997 as a libertarian candidate, scoring 5% of the votes in a 3-party race.  At FreedomFest, he has spoken on music at least five times, and is always well prepared as a panelist and panel moderator in a variety of timely topics.