Brooks is the founder and CEO of MT Newswires, a leading provider of real-time, multi-asset class news and analysis of capital markets, political and economic events globally. A Naval Academy graduate and US Navy veteran, McFeely served aboard the aircraft carrier Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Persian Gulf during operation Desert Thunder. Following his military service, McFeely founded MT Newswires in 1999. He was also founder of Pearl Investments, a proprietary statistical arbitrage trading firm based in Portland, Maine. He was also co-founder and managing partner of the Washington, DC based hedge fund Brochet Capital Partners, LP.