Alexander M. Blanton

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.