“JMP Securities analyst Alex Guana got quite a bit of attention — as well as the honorary MarketBeat ‘Golden Guillotine’ award for sticking his neck out — earlier this week, with a rare downgrade of Apple to ‘market perform’ from ‘market outperform,'” Matt Phillips blogs for The Wall Street Journal. “He took a few moments to parry a few questions from MarketBeat via email.”
MarketBeat: Alex, thanks a lot for taking a few minutes. Just to give our readers a sense of your background you’ve been a tech analyst for a while, first at Banc of America Securities, then UBS and now at JMP Securities, is that correct?
Alex Guana: Yes, that is correct. Prior to beginning my career as an Analyst on Wall Street, I was an electrical engineer for a hybrid electric vehicle start up, for Toyota Motor Corporation (based in Japan for three years), and with IBM. It is from my Japan, IBM and associated TRW relationships that I first evolved some expertise in advanced materials used in cellular and fiber optic communications.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ellis D.” for the heads up.]
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