Established in 1995

Silicon Investor was purchased by ADVFN PLC in September of 2006.

The Silicon Investor website was launched in 1995 and dominated the world financial message board space almost immediately. It has remained a market leader ever since and is currently recommended on Forbes - Best of the Web. Silicon Investor has, over the years, attracted some of the most well known and infamous market participants online today.

Silicon Investor’s CEO is Bob Zumbrunnen. Bob studied programming at DeVry where he first made a name for himself running PC-Help: one of the biggest and most profitable message boards in the US in the late 80s. He joined Silicon Investor in 2001 as the site’s administrator. Two years later Bob bought the company, which has continued to thrive; adding content and users apace. Silicon Investor now has over 21 million page views a month.

Established in 2000

Established in 2000 and bought by ADVFN in September of 2006, Investors Hub (iHub) is the brain child of Silicon Investor user Matt Brown.

Having identified additional functionality and a niche in the financial message board space, Matt created iHub, which soon attracted the interest of Bob Zumbrunnen of Silicon Investor. In 2002, Bob was appointed as iHub's President (CEO) and since then the site has come to dominate the financial message board arena. Alexa describes it as "one of the most popular financial message board destinations in the world."

Both Bob and Matt are highly experienced message board operators who specialise in developing and managing very large communities. This expertise has helped iHub achieve its current 84 million plus page views a month.