Brian A. Shactman is an American journalist for CNBC

CNBC

CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

, a United States business channel he joined in June 2007 as a general assignment reporter and substitute anchor for CNBC's Business Day Programming. He is now a co-anchor on Worldwide Exchange

Worldwide Exchange

Worldwide Exchange is a television business news program on CNBC channels around the world. It is broadcast live from studios on three continents. The global program is anchored by Ross Westgate in London, Christine Tan in Singapore and various anchors in New York...

along with CNBC Europe

CNBC Europe

CNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...

's Ross Westgate

Ross Westgate

Ross Westgate is an English financial journalist for CNBC Europe in London, where he is a co-anchor of the global business news programme, Worldwide Exchange Ross Westgate is an English financial journalist for CNBC Europe in London, where he is a co-anchor of the global business news programme,...

 in London

London

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 and CNBC Asia

CNBC Asia

CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

's Christine Tan

Christine Tan

Christine Tan is a Singaporean financial journalist with CNBC Asia and is the Singapore anchor for Worldwide Exchange, the global business-news program broadcasting live each weekday from Asia, Europe and the United States...

 in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Shactman took over the anchoring duties of that program on October 22, 2007.

Biography

Shactman joined CNBC after his four-year tenure at Hartford

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

 NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

-affiliate WVIT

WVIT

WVIT, virtual channel 30, is the NBC owned and operated television station for the state of Connecticut, licensed to New Britain. WVIT has its offices and studios located in West Hartford, and transmitter based in Farmington, Connecticut....

, which is owned and operated by General Electric

General Electric

General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

, the parent company of CNBC. Prior to joining WVIT in 2002, Shactman held various positions at ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

, including analyst work at ESPNEWS

ESPNEWS

ESPNEWS , launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel...

, SportsCenter

SportsCenter

SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 7, 1979. Originally broadcast only daily, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores and highlights from major...

and ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...

, as well as writing, producing, and editing content for ESPN.com

ESPN.com

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Shactman received three regional Emmy Awards in 2002 for his sports anchoring and reporting. A year later (2003), he won The Associated Press Award for a documentary on University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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 women's head basketball coach Geno Auriemma

Geno Auriemma

Luigi "Geno" Auriemma is the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, which he has led to seven National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I national championships...

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Shactman is also involved in community service

Community service

Community service is donated service or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions....

, volunteering for Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement or JA or JA Worldwide is a non-profit youth organization that was founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and senator Winthrop M. Crane. JA focuses on educating kids in K-12 about the free enterprise system...

, ALS

ALS

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, and Connecticut's mentoring program. He is also on the Board of Directors for Special Olympics

Special Olympics

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries....

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Shactman earned a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 in English and History from Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

. He also has a Master of Arts degree in English from Clark University

Clark University

Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...

 in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....

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Sources

• Brian Shactman bio at CNBC.com http://www.cnbc.com/id/20073230/site/14081545/
• Catching up with Brian Shactman TheLaurelCT.com