Celebrated money manager and rock songwriter Gary Marks has achieved great success in two distinctly different careers.

Mr. Marks is highly regarded in the securities industry for his innovative work as the CEO and sole owner of Sky Bell Asset Management, an alternative investment firm with affiliated offices in Florida, New York, and Hawaii. He founded Sky Bell in July of 1999 and the firm now manages over $300 million.

Gary Marks is known for his ability to form risk-averse, multi-manager strategies that have been successful in both bull and bear markets. He creates specifically targeted hedged funds of funds for qualified investors.

Sky Bell is also known in the financial industry for its unique ability to form affiliations with firms normally considered to be competitors in the field. They presently co-manage funds with asset management firms in London and Colorado.

Simultaneously, Gary still actively writes songs, sings, plays piano and guitar, and records CDs of his original music. All of Gary’s music can be found on i-Tunes.

In 1973, at the age of 23, Gary recorded and released “Gathering,” his first of 10 critically acclaimed recordings. Gathering, was re-released internationally in February 2007 by an independent European record label as a “rock-jazz classic.”

His 10th CD, “A Whisper Can Change the World,” was released in February 2007.

He finds the time for both careers by actively practicing the four strategies discussed in Rocking Wall Street.