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Roundtable Forum: Industrial Manufacturing

WENDY B. CAPLAN is a Managing Director and an Equity Research Analyst in the Industrial Manufacturing Group, providing coverage of the diversified industrials and rail supply companies at ABN AMRO. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Caplan was a Vice President and an Equity Research Analyst in the Industrial Manufacturing group at Schroder Wertheim where she spent over seven years providing coverage of capital goods companies. Ms. Caplan received an MBA from Pace University, New York, New York, and received a BS from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Profile
MARK KOZNAREK is a Senior Research Analyst and a Founding Partner of Midwest Research-Maxus Group covering capital equipment, aerospace and multi-industry companies. Previously, Mr. Koznarek was a Research Analyst with Roulston & Co., he served as a Senior Financial Analyst covering the capital goods industry. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, MS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Profile
JOHN G. INCH has been with Bear, Stearns & Co. for over three years. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Inch was an Analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter covering the automotive parts industry. In 2001, he was ranked number two in Machinery and runner-up in Multi-Industrials in the All Star Analyst poll conducted annually by Institutional Investor magazine. Mr. Inch earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Ivy Business School at the University of Western Ontario, and his MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Profile
GREGORY M. MACOSKO is a Senior Equity Analyst at Lord, Abbett & Co., where he also has portfolio management responsibilities for selected accounts in the small cap area. Previously, he was an Equity Analyst for Royce Associates and a Principal at Easton Consultants. Mr. Macosko earned an MBA from Columbia University in Finance and Marketing, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Math and Economics from Albion College, Michigan. Profile
ALEXANDER M. BLANTON is a Senior Director at Ingalls & Snyder LLC. He has been ranked six times in the Wall Street Journal's Annual Best on the Street Analysts Survey in the eight years of the survey. Prior to joining the firm in 1991, Mr. Blanton was Senior Machinery Analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., for 18 years. At Merrill, he was on the Institutional Investor's All-American Research Team for many years and ranked number one in machinery for three years. He has an engineering degree from the University of Washington and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Profile
TWST: I'd like to begin by asking about the approach that you take to

diversified industrial manufacturing, and the sectors or niches that

each of you focuses on. Wendy, will you begin?

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