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Speaker:
 Ivy Zelman - Chief Executive Officer
Ms. Zelman holds over 15 years of experience covering the homebuilding, building products, furniture and manufactured housing industries at various points in her career. Prior to the founding of Zelman & Associates, Ivy worked at Credit Suisse Group from 1998 to 2007, the last 7 years as a Managing Director. During her tenure at the company, she established herself as the leading industry source for homebuilding related equity research and was widely recognized as one of the most preeminent figures in the entire industry.
Ms. Zelman has been a member of Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team for 13 consecutive years, including eight number one rankings (1999 – 2004 and 2006- 2007). She also earned first place 7 times in Greenwich Associates’ Institutional Research Services Poll. Ms. Zelman was featured by Forbes magazine three consecutive years from 2002-2004 as the number one earnings estimator among over 3,300 security analysts. In 2005 and 2006, she was ranked 14th in Builder Magazine’s Power Broker list of the 50 most influential people in homebuilding, which included such luminaries as President George W. Bush and Alan Greenspan. Ivy was also recognized as one of the Top 10 Women to Watch by Jewish Women's International in 2005.
Before joining Credit Suisse, Ivy worked at Salomon Brothers from 1990 to 1997 with the last five years spent in Equity Research. She received a Bachelor of Science from George Mason University in 1990 while working full time at Ernst & Young in Virginia. Ms. Zelman is married and resides with her husband and their three children in Cleveland, OH.
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