Tyler Mathisen

Tyler Mathisen Speaker Biography

Co-anchor for CNBC’s Power Lunch and vice president for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, Tyler Mathisen works closely with CNBC’s Business Development and Marketing teams on strategic initiatives and alliances. Mathisen also co-anchors CNBC’s Nightly Business Report, an award-winning evening business news program for U.S. public television. In 2014, NBR was named Best Radio/TV Show by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).

Previously, Mathisen was managing editor of CNBC Business News, responsible for directing the network’s daily content and coverage, and has been the co-anchor of CNBC’s Closing Bell. Mathisen has reported one-hour documentaries for the network including Best Buy: The Big Box Fights Back, Supermarkets Inc: Inside a $500 Billion Money Machine and Death: It’s a Living. He is also the host of the CNBC series How I Made My Millions.

Before joining CNBC in 1997, Mathisen spent 15 years as a writer, senior editor and top editor for Money magazine. Among other duties, he supervised the magazine’s mutual funds coverage, its annual investment forecast issue and its expansion into electronic journalism, for which it won the first-ever National Magazine Award for New Media in 1997. He served as money editor of ABC’s Good Morning America from 1991 to 1997. The GMA report, Caring for Aging Parents, won Mathisen the American University Investment Company Institute Award for Personal Finance Journalism for a televised series in 1993. He also won an Emmy Award for a report on the 1987 stock market crash that aired on New York’s WCBS-TV.

A native of Arlington, Va., Mathisen graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia.