Peter Ricchiuti

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Host of Out to Lunch / Community Advisory Board

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! He is the Assistant Dean at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business, and his insight and humor have twice made him the School's top professor. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.

In 1993, Ricchiuti founded the Burkenroad Reports investment research program, where he leads a team of more than 160 business students in search of the investment "skinny" on undervalued stocks in six southern states. Ricchiuti and the Burkenroad Reports have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Post, CNN and CNBC.

Ricchiuti is a frequent contributor in financial and business media, including Marketplace, the nationally broadcast public radio program. He is a popular speaker at meetings and conferences throughout the United States and in Europe. His unique presentation style puts him in front of a wide variety of audiences, including his selection by the NFL to teach investment workshops to the New Orleans Saints.

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Out To Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon October 15, 2012

Girls Gone Word

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Juila Ballard, Peter Ricchiuti and LouAnn Lofton.

LouAnn Lofton, author of Wall Street Journal best-seller Warren Buffet Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should Too, and Juila Ballard from New Orleans business news website Silicon Bayou News, join Peter for a word-filled lunch.

Out To Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon October 8, 2012

Inspiration on Out to Lunch

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Arman Sadeghpour, Peter Ricchiuti and Sean Simone.

Inspiration is putting two things together that haven’t been put together before. For example, making toothpaste out of chocolate. Or turning your cell phone into a 650,000-volt stun gun.

Arman Sadeghpour is co-founder and CEO of Theodent, the revolutionary toothpaste that turns chocolate into the dentist’s friend, and Sean Simone is the co-founder of Yellow Jacket Case, the cell phone case that’s a stun gun.

Out To Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon October 1, 2012

Happy Entrepreneur Season

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Tim Williamson, CEO of Idea Village, has their slogan, "Trust your crazy ideas" written on his hand.

New Orleans used to be a place you had to leave to have a decent business career. Now it’s a place entrepreneurs move to.

This radical change in our landscape didn’t just happen, it was engineered, in large part by The Idea Village. CEO Tim Williamson joins Peter for lunch, along with Matt Wisdom, co-founder of one of New Orleans’ most successful next generation companies, Turbosquid.

Out to Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon September 24, 2012

Coffee and Ice Cream

Danielle Boyce Batten, Director of Sales & Marketing for Cool Brew Coffee, and Adrian Simpson, founder of New Orleans Ice Cream, are allies in the NOLA coffee and ice cream assault on the nation.

Out to Lunch
1:02 pm
Mon September 17, 2012

Make It Right

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right rebuilding effort in the 9th Ward was a beacon in the darkness after Hurricane Katrina and is still building houses today.

Taylor Royle, Communications Director of Make It Right, joins Peter on Out to Lunch, along with Peter Couhig, the President and CEO of Resource Environmental Solutions, who is working to save us from the next big hurricane.

Out to Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon September 10, 2012

The Good Side of the Hurricane

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Robert Fogarty, Peter Ricchiuti, Blake Haney and Pike Barkerding.

Living on the brink of annual annihilation has bred a number of fascinating businesses founded by exceptional people who are inspired by the spirit of our city.

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Out to Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon September 3, 2012

Company Social

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Peter, with guests Megan Hardgroder and Will Scott.

Peter's guests address the philosophical Cartesian conundrum, "I Tweet therefore I am." If your business is not on Twitter or Facebook, do you really exist?

Megan Hardgroder is the founder of Conversations, focused on using social media to make small businesses effective online.

Will Scott is the founder of Search Influence, the largest online marketing firm on the Gulf Coast, working with over 1,000 local businesses.

Out to Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon August 27, 2012

Better To Give Than Receive

Jason Nicosia founded Connect for a Cause, which allows you to make a networking connection with someone you would like to meet by winning an auction to have lunch with them. Your winning bid goes to a charity.

Michael Angle is the founder of Giftmeo, which brings people together online to chip in and give a gift to a friend or loved one.

Out to Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon August 20, 2012

Fruit and Chocolate

Cool Fruit Sensations is a new local juice venture making a splash. Elmer's, makers of Heavenly Hash and Gold Brick, is New Orleans' Easter favorite and one of the oldest candy companies in the U.S.

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Out To Lunch
1:00 pm
Mon August 13, 2012

Occasional IKEA

This week on Out to Lunch, we explore the places where home and business intersect. First, New Orleanian Kay Morrison. Kay was a success in corporate America when she and her husband realized they needed an extra partner — an occasional wife — to do all the at-home stuff Kay wasn’t at home to do. Kay founded The Occasional Wife to become that occasional wife for others.

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