
Carol Levenson, CFA
Carol Levenson, CFA has 35 years of experience as a credit analyst. She has been Director of Research at Gimme Credit since co-founding it in 1994. Prior to this Levenson spent 10 years as a senior bond analyst for Harris Investment Management. She earned her B.A. from New College and her M.A. in English and M.B.A. from The University of Chicago.
Investment Grade: Basic Industries, Retailing and Leisure, Healthcare, Tobacco, Consumer Products, Capital Goods

Kathleen Shanley, CFA
Kathleen Shanley, CFA has over thirty years of experience in credit research. She has been a senior bond analyst for finance at Gimme Credit since 1999 and prior to this was a senior analyst at Bank America Corporation. Shanley earned her B.A. from Georgetown University and her M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Investment Grade and High Yield: Banks, Brokers, Finance, Insurance, Real Estate

Kim Noland
Kim Noland has thirty years of experience in credit analysis of high yield and distressed securities. She has been Director of High Yield Research at Gimme Credit since 2002. Noland was formerly Head of Distressed Research at Salomon Brothers, Managing Director of High Yield and Emerging Markets Research at CIBC/Oppenheimer, Director of High Yield Trading at Merrill Lynch and Head of Bankruptcy Research at Bear Stearns. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, her J.D. from Indiana University and her M.B.A. from Harvard University.
High Yield: Telecom, Gaming, Leisure, Consumer Products, Retail, Paper & Forest Products, Broadcasting & Cable, Media

Dave Novosel, CFA
Dave Novosel, CFA has thirty years of experience in credit analysis, as Head of Investment Grade Research at Banc One Capital Markets and as an analyst at Everen Securities and Metropolitan Life. He earned his B.A. from Yale University and his M.B.A. from Northwestern University.
Investment Grade and High Yield: Telecommunications, Media, Technology, Food and Beverage

Evan Mann, CFA
Evan Mann, CFA has thirty years of experience as a credit analyst with Gimme Credit High Yield, Delaware Investments, Banc America Securities, Dillon Read and Lord Abbett. He earned his B.A. from Washington University and his M.B.A. from Hofstra University.
High Yield: Metals and Mining, Chemicals, Energy, Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Retailing

Cedric Rimaud, CFA
Cedric Rimaud, CFA has 17 years’ experience covering global fixed income and emerging markets credits. Prior to Gimme Credit, he was Managing Director at Spread Research from 2009 covering European High Yield and Emerging Markets companies. Mr. Rimaud served as Director in the Credit Trading department at Credit Suisse Securities; Vice President, Global Portfolio Trading, Emerging Markets at Citigroup Global Markets; and Vice President, International Fixed Income at J.P. Morgan Investment Management. He earned an advanced degree in finance at EM Lyon Graduate School of Business and a Masters in Finance at the London Business School.
Emerging Markets: Latin America and Asia

Alexandre Dray
Alexandre Dray has ten years’ experience in credit analysis. Prior to Gimme Credit, he served as Senior Credit Analyst, High Yield and Convertible Bonds at Spread Research for 7 years. Mr. Dray was a Financial Analyst at Conexant Systems, Inc. and Consolidation Accountant at RCI Banque (Renault Group). He earned an MSC in Finance at SKEMA Business School.
Emerging Markets: Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America
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