Luminary: Kiril Sokoloff

Luminary: Kiril Sokoloff

Kiril Sokoloff is a successful and world-renown investment strategist. He possesses a unique perspective on the global economy, having been involved in almost every aspect of corporate finance -- from commercial and investment banking and hedge fund management to commodity and currency trading to venture capital and private equity investment. In 1980, a time when the world was petrified with fear of hyperinflation, Sokoloff authored Is Inflation Ending? Are You Ready?�, which developed many of the business and investment themes of the 1980s.

After rising to the top of his profession he began a decline into near-total deafness. In his book Personal Transformation: An Executive's Experience of Grief, Loss and Renewal, Sokoloff recounts his deafness, his struggle to accept the limitations it placed on his life, and his ultimate discovery of a deeper peace. The Dalai Lama introduces his story of compassion, which has been described as a transformative experience for every reader. Sokoloff hosted the Dalai Lama at a conference for executives and religious leaders in 2005, and is the president of The Idaho Compassion Foundation.

Sokoloff's 30-year track record can be found at 13D Research, an investment research firm he founded in 1983. He also wrote or co-authored Street Smart Investing and Thinking Investors Guide to the Stock Market. In 2001, Sokoloff began to write “What I Learned This Week,� an investment publication with a worldwide readership among investment and business leaders.