Meredith Whitney, Managing Director, Oppenheimer & Co.
8:00 – 9:00 AM
One of Wall Street's leading bank analysts, Meredith Whitney, a managing director at Oppenheimer & Co., covers approximately twenty financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., and American Express Co. Previously, she spent four years leading financial institutions research at Wachovia Securities, and covered specialty finance at CIBC World Markets for six years. Whitney was named the #2 stock picker in her category by Forbes in 2007, and in 2006 she was the first and only research analyst to be asked to present at the FDIC Annual Economic Round Table Forum. She is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune, among other publications. Whitney is a graduate of Brown University.