A veteran financial journalist, Santoli writes the finance magazine's 'Streetwise' column, offering a forward-looking take on the financial markets, illuminating market trends and themes and identifying investment opportunities. The New York native is a regular on-air contributor to several cable networks, talk radio and financial conferences, and he has won two Dow Jones business reporting awards for distinguished real-time journalism.

"Michael Santoli provides a unique perspective on Wall Street and Main Street -- which is particularly interesting as companies and consumers emerge from the worst economy in decades," said INVESTOhio Chairman Terry McWilliams.

INVESTOhio is an equity forum bringing together publicly traded Ohio companies of various sizes, industries and capitalizations with regional and Wall Street fund managers, analysts and investment professionals.

Santoli's keynote speech punctuates the day-long series of investment presentations by corporate executives from large capitalization companies like Cardinal Health to emerging ones such as AdCare Health Systems. Sectors represented include banking, insurance, retail, utility/energy, health, environmental, and specialty products.

"I view myself as a color commentator on the markets," says Santoli, "offering insights on the action, trying to identify emerging themes and anticipating possible risks that any informed investor would find useful."

It's his job to offer a point of view, and Santoli says, "The last thing I want to do is to be obscure. I want the reader to know my opinion and to know the difference between fact and opinion."

Santoli has been responsible for at least four different Barron's columns. He has written 'The Trader' column, which broadly covers the stock market and investment trends, including the market's occasionally quirky behavior and investor psychology. Santoli is also intimately familiar with mutual funds, having edited Barron's mutual fund section and pullouts.

Presentation lineup includes 16 Ohio-based public companies

Companies scheduled to present to the conference include (with headquarters city listed):

    * AdCare Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE/AMEX:ADK), Springfield, Ohio.  * American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP), Columbus  * American Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:AFG) (Nasdaq:AFG), Cincinnati.  * Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE:BIG), Columbus.  * Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE:CAH), Dublin, Ohio.  * CECO Environmental Corp.