Joel Tiss

JOEL TISS has been a Senior Vice President with Lehman Brothers, Inc.,
since 1998 and has been with the company for 16 years. He has been
covering the containers and packaging industry for six and a half years.
Prior to his coverage of the containers and packaging sector, he
provided analytical support for two Institutional Investor-rated
conglomerate analysts (1985-1991) and followed many miscellaneous
industrial companies (1991-1995). Mr. Tiss has placed on the
Institutional Investor magazine list consistently since he began
covering the packaging group. He has also been ranked in the Greenwich
survey for packaging. Recently, Mr. Tiss has added coverage of six
industrial machinery companies while maintaining coverage of his
packaging universe. He graduated from the State University of New York
at Cortland with a degree in Economics in 1986, did graduate work in
Finance at Hofstra University in the mid-1990s and has passed two levels
of the CFA exam.