Bob Schneider is a Partner in Nihon Equity Research.com, which offers customized research of small- and mid-cap Japanese stocks to institutional investors. He worked in the equity research department of Morgan Stanley for six years, including three years as Supervisory Analyst and Senior Editor of their Tokyo office. Mr. Schneider is also the author of Hands-On Microsoft Access (Addison-Wesley, 2006), an intermediate guide to this database management program. Mr. Schneider is a CPA (inactive) in the State of New York and a graduate of Columbia University Business School.