Industry & Services >> Analyst Interviews >> April 15, 2013

Multi-Industry Industrials Focus on Emerging Markets and Narrower Business Portfolios

Heymann, Nick
Nick Heymann is co-group head of global industrial infrastructure at William Blair. Previously, he was managing director of global industrial infrastructure equity research at Sterne Agee. Earlier, he was senior vice president – equity research at Prudential Equity Group from 1997 to 2007; senior vice president – equity research at NatWest Securities from 1990 to 1997; and managing director – equity research at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1983 to 1990. He has been named an Institutional Investor All-American analyst nine times and was ranked as the No. 2 stock-picker in electrical equipment by the Financial Times/StarMine in August 2013. He received a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of Maine and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Profile
TWST: If you would, please set the stage with a snapshot of your coverage universe.

Mr. Heymann: We follow about 20 multi-industry companies that are based in Europe, the U.S., North