Ingrid Ebeling
Age: n/a
Company: JMP Securities
Education and career: She holds a MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BS in business administration from the University of Montana. Ms Ebeling joined JMP Securities in June 2003 and is a vice-president and senior research analyst covering consumer technology and digital media. She previously spent three years covering the infrastructure software sector for JMP as a research associate. Before joining JMP, she served as an associate in the technology investment banking group at Deutsche Bank, from 1999 to 2001, and as an associate in the equity research department at Robertson Stephens, from 1995 to 1997. She began her financial services career at Barclays Global Investors in 1992.

Mike Shafir
Age: 32
Company: Sterne, Agee & Leach
Education and career: Holds a BA in History from Brandeis University and an MBA in Finance from Rutgers Business School. Joined Sterne Agee as a research analyst, focusing on Northeast Banks & Thrifts, in April 2006 after working as an analyst at Moors & Cabot since 2004.
2008 stock pick: Beneficial Mutual Bancorp because it does a significant amount of commercial lending and good deposit.