David Meier is a Senior Investment Analyst at The Motley Fool. He co-leads Motley Fool Supernova’s Odyssey mission, a real-money portfolio designed to help individual investors build and manage a portfolio of Rule Breaker stocks. He also serves as the SMID (small- to mid-cap) team captain for the Motley Fool One premium service and contributes to the Trends team as a stock analyst. At The Motley Fool, David has been a writer, editor, stock analyst, and newsletter advisor. In addition, he was a portfolio manager at Motley Fool Asset Management and a hedge fund manager at 1623 Capital. Prior to joining The Motley Fool in 2005, David worked as an engineer specializing in gas turbine design at Rolls Royce and GE Power Systems. David holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Wake Forest.