Rod W. Bare

ROD W. BARE is a stock analyst with Morningstar, covering the computer
hardware industry. Before joining Morningstar in 2003, he was an
investment banker at Deutsche Bank Securities. Mr. Bare has a bachelor’s
degree in economics from Illinois State University and an MBA in finance
and statistics from the University of Chicago. Prior to business school,
he was an information technology consultant and was trained as a network
systems specialist in the United States Air Force.