Matthew Scott - editor

Matthew Scott is a veteran journalist with more than 20 years' experience covering corporate finance, personal finance, investment and business news. He has extensive magazine and online writing and editing experience, which includes helping Black Enterprise earn a 1997 Folio Award for Editorial Excellence while serving as the magazine's managing editor.
 
Prior to joining Corporate Secretary, Scott spent two years covering markets and investing news for AOL DailyFinance. Before that, he spent two years covering corporate finance, corporate governance and corporate real estate news for Crain’s Financial Week. While at Crain’s, he helped Financial Week win several Jesse H Neal Awards for excellence in business journalism.
 
Scott also has an expert background in personal finance news. He played a major role in strengthening Black Enterprise’s Black Wealth Initiative financial literacy program from 2001 to 2005. Over the years he has written columns for the AOL Black Voices Money Talks blog, and contributed investment stories to Barron’s, CNBC.com, TheStreet.com and InvestorPlace.com.
 
A graduate of Rutgers University, Scott is a former president of the New York Association of Black Journalists, and is a University of Michigan Journalism Fellows alumnus.

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Aarti Maharaj - deputy editor

Aarti has been a print and television journalist for more than five years. She worked at the New York Daily News, the Queens Chronicle and NewJerseyNewsroom as a staff and freelance writer. She also reported and produced news segments for Emmy-winning news program Transit Transit News Magazine on PBS. 

Prior to joining Corporate Secretary, Aarti served as an associate editor at OnWallStreet Magazine where she focused on wealth management, the SEC, FINRA, wirehouse, compensation, top financial advisor moves and other aspects of the industry.

Aarti participated as an honorary member of the Stanford Media Fellowship 2011 and attended Stanford Law School Directors College. She holds a master’s degree in communication and media studies from Fordham University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in political science.

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Ty Francis - publisher

Ty Francis has been in the magazine and business information industry for more than 10 years, starting out at a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet.

He has worked for a variety of magazines in the corporate finance and insurance industries. Prior to joining Corporate Secretary, he headed up North American operations for two specialist publishing companies, whose portfolios included IQ Magazine, Boxing News and Global Reinsurance.

A native of Wales in the UK, Ty spent some time working in France before studying business administration at Southampton Solent University in England. He moved to New York in 2008, and  attended Yale University where he studied digital and print publishing. He took over as publisher of Corporate Secretary in mid-2010.

Ty is a keen rugby supporter but his passion is Karate, which he has been practicing for more than 25 years. He also ran his own dojo. He holds a second-degree black belt in Wado Ryu.

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