Gerald Odening

GERALD ODENING is a Managing Director of Jefferies & Company in equity
research for Knowledge Services. Prior to joining Jefferies in 2003, he
was a Managing Director at JP Morgan Securities, heading up the
education services research effort from 1999-2002. Between 1999 and
1999, Mr. Odening launched research on the emerging education industry
at Salomon Smith Barney, where he was a member of the Institutional
Investor All-America Research Team. He has been a securities analyst
for over two decades. Mr. Odening is a frequent conference speaker on
the business of education and has testified before a congressional panel
on Web-based education. He graduated from Occidental College with a
Bachelor’s degree in English. Married with three children, he enjoys
spending his free time with wines and planning his next trips to Italy
and Bermuda.