Our Staff

Kristin Bianco joined BNK Invest as an anchor in January, 2010. She brings over 10 years of financial reporting experience, including 6 years at Standard & Poors where she covered stock market activity for the S&P newswire "MarketScope." While she was with S&P she also wrote and broadcast a daily market report for a local radio station. She worked as a financial writer for Price Waterhouse and interned at Forbes Magazine, where she was a reporter assigned to compiling the annual "Forbes 400" issue. Kristin began her career as a financial writer and money market analyst for former Wall Street firm Shearson Lehman Hutton. She has a B.A. degree from Lehigh University in international business and journalism and an M.S. degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Kristin enjoys golf, tennis, running and traveling. She is married and has four children.

Michael McInerney is the video editor for BNK Invest, Inc. He has a BFA in Film/Video from Five Towns College, in Dix Hills, NY. He currently lives in Huntington, NY, and does freelance film/video work, with a focus on video production and photography, in his free time, as well as pursuing personal projects and gaining recognition as both a filmmaker and a writer.

Sayoko Murase joined BNK Invest as an anchor in August 2009. She has been a broadcast journalist for over 7 years and holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from California State University Dominguez Hills. Prior to joining BNK, she was an anchor at Shaw-TV in Vancouver, Canada, where she was also a feature reporter, covering topics from advances in medicine to a series on successful immigrants in British Columbia. Before moving to Vancouver, she anchored the morning show at CBS affiliate WGME-TV in Portland, Maine, where her newscast was recognized by the Columbia Journalism Review. Sayoko began her career at WAGM-TV, a CBS affiliate in Presque Isle, Maine where she served as a general assignment reporter, weekend anchor and producer.

Outside of work, Sayoko has volunteered as an ESL instructor at Columbia University, the Pets Project for the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged, Dress for Success, and is currently working with an animal rescue group dedicated to helping at risk dogs and cats that are suffering in the shelter system.

Daniel Pedisich is the Content Manager for BNK Invest, Inc. Daniel oversees the production of all editorial content for BNK Invest. He has been involved in web related ventures for over ten years, with extensive experience in hardware and networking. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Angela Salvucci joined BNK Invest, as an anchor in April 2009. She continues to write the marketing-moving stories of the day for the site.

Prior to joining the company, she was a producer at CNBC, working on everything from live coverage of Federal Reserve decisions on interest rates to the subprime meltdown. She began her business journalism career at Institutional Investor, braking news on securities regulation and investment banking. Angela graduated from Harvard College cum laude with a degree in sociology.