SETH TEICH is Vice President of Healthcare Equity Research at First
Union Securities, Inc. Prior to joining the firm, he was associated with
Banc of America Securities and its predecessor company, Montgomery. Mr.
Teich has also been employed at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in
Seattle. He earned his BS in Biology at Cornell University and is a
Chartered Financial Analyst.
SETH POTTER is a wireless com-munications analyst at Punk Ziegel &
Company. Prior to this, Mr. Potter was the CFO/Founder of 3G Solutions,
Inc., a national rooftop antenna site management company. Before joining
3G Solutions, he was a Senior Vice President of Ryan Beck & Co., where
he helped the firm build a middle market presence in the wireless
telecommunications and technology sectors. He was also Managing Director
of Research for a member NYSE investment firm where he built and
maintained the research efforts for the firm’s institutional and retail
clients. Mr. Potter started his career with the Chase Manhattan Bank,
where he was a credit analyst. In 1988, Mr. Potter earned a Bachelor of
Administration degree in Economics from Brandeis University.
SEAN JACKSON joined Avondale Partners as its first Equity Research
Analyst in July 2001. His responsibilities include providing investment
research in the Internet security and healthcare technology industries
and leading the direction of the technology research effort. Before
Avondale, he was Director, Equity Research at SunTrust Equitable
Securities, concentrating on Internet security. In January 2000, he
published the securities industry’s first comprehensive research piece
on Internet security, a 128-page report entitled ‘Making Sense of
Security.’ In June 2001, he was recognized as a Wall Street Journal All-
Star Analyst for stock-picking in the Internet sector. This award was
preceded by his ranking from bulldogresearch.com in 2000 as the number
one ranked Internet software analyst based on price performance of buy
and strong buy recommendations. In 1999, he was the number one ranked
analyst at SunTrust Equitable Securities based on strong buy
recommendations. Prior to SunTrust Equitable, he worked for four years
as actuarial consultant for Thornthwaite & Co., and one summer as a
Research Analyst at Fidelity Investments. He earned an MBA from the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a
BS in Engineering at Princeton University, where he was captain of the
varsity basketball team and Ivy League Player of the Year.
SCOTT L. SOFFEN is a Principal, Equity Research of Legg Mason Wood
Walker, Inc. where he follows the education industry. Previously, he was
associated with Lehman Brothers as a First Vice President, Merrill
Lynch, and R.W. Baird. A Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Soffen earned
his Bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers University and his
M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Mr. Soffen
is married, has two children and among his personal interests includes
skiing, scuba diving and tennis.
SCOTT H. CAMPBELL is a Vice President-Homebuilding and REIT Equity
Research at Raymond James and Associates. Prior to joining the firm in
September 1999 he was associated with Roney & Co. Previously, Mr.
Campbell was Director of Investor Relations at Pulte Homes, the nation’s
largest residential homebuilder. Prior to joining Pulte, he spent six
years at the accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP, where he rose to the
position of Audit Manager. Mr. Campbell earned his degree in business
from Alma College in Michigan. He is a member of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Real
Estate Investment Trusts.
SCOTT D. FLOWER is a Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney
covering the air-freight and logistics sectors as well as ground
transportation: railroad and trucking sectors. He was previously
associated with PaineWebber, Kidder Peabody, Investment Banking
and IBM Corporation. Mr. Flower is ranked second among major US
brokerage Analysts following the rail and trucking industries in
the most recent Greenwich Associates Survey. He received a BS
with highest distinction from the University of Virginia and an
MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Flower also completed additional graduate
management coursework at the Kellogg School of Northwestern
University.
SCOTT B. GILL is a Vice President of Simmons & Company International in
Houston. Previously, he was a Vice President-Investor Relations at Baker
Hughes Inc. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
from Louisiana State University and his M.B.A. from Tulane University. A
registered professional engineer, he is a member of the AIMR, the
National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts, and SPE. Mr. Gill
is married and has two children.
SARAH E. MATTSON joined RBC Capital Markets as an Equity Research
Analyst in 1999. Her coverage focuses on enterprise software
companies. Previously, she was associated with Warburg Dillon
Read in San Francisco, Silicon Graphics Inc. in Mountain View,
California, Allianz Versicherungs-AG in Munich, Germany, and
Delima Associates in San Rafael, California. She holds a
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of
California at Berkeley.
SARA C. MICHELMORE is a Vice President in SG Cowen’s medical technology
group. Ms. Michelmore joined SG Cowen in 1999. Prior to joining SG
Cowen, she was an Associate in the medical technology equity research
group at Warburg Dillon Read LLC. Prior to that, she served as a Senior
Account Executive for Feinstein Kean Partners, specializing in investor
relations for biotechnology and medical device companies. Previously she
was a senior market analyst with Boston Biomedical Consultants, a
strategic consulting and market research firm for the in vitro
diagnostics industry. She holds an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin
College, where she majored in Biochemistry and minored in Economics.
SANJIV G. HINGORANI is a Managing Director and Equity Research Analyst
at ING Baring Furman Selz where he provides research coverage of
software companies. Previously, he was associated with Raymond James &
Associates, Nomura Securities, Salomon Brothers and Intel Corporation.
Mr. Hingorani received his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
from the University of Bombay, India and his MBA from The Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania. He also attended the Stanford
University Computer Science Graduate Program. He is a member of the
Association of Computing Machinery, the New York New Media Association,
and the IEEE. Mr. Hingorani includes reading, politics, and fundraising
among his personal interests.
