PERSON: Tyler Mathisen

Co-Anchor

Tyler Mathisen co-anchors CNBC's "Power Lunch" and is vice president for Strategic Editorial Initiatives working 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.<br> <br> Previously, Mathisen was managing editor of "CNBC Business News," responsible for directing the network's daily content and coverage. He had been the co-anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell."<br> <br> 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." Mathisen is also the host of the CNBC series "How I Made My Millions." <br> 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.<br> <br> In 1993, Mathisen won the American University-Investment Company Institute Award for Personal Finance Journalism for a televised series on "Caring for Aging Parents," which aired on ABC's "Good Morning America." Mathisen served as money editor of "GMA" from 1991 to 1997. He also won an Emmy Award for a report on the 1987 stock market crash that aired on New York's WCBS-TV.<br> <br> A native of Arlington, Va., Mathisen graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia.