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Michael Shonstrom began his career in the financial service industry as an associate editor of the venerable Moody’sIndustrial Manual. He subsequently spent three years with Lehman Brothers as a securities analyst followed by a six-year tenure with Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan as a Vice President, with institutional sales and research responsibilities. Research coverage included health care and consumer products companies. In 1985 he joined First Albany in institutional sales and subsequently joined CL King & Associates in 1988, as Vice President, Director Institutional Sales. While there the institutional department grew from a start-up status to a group of 10 professionals and he was involved in training sales and trading staff, refining the small-cap value research product and establishing investment banking relationships. In 1994, he came to Neidiger, Tucker, Bruner, Inc., a regional broker-dealer based in Denver, as Senior Vice President, Director Institutional Research to develop an institutional presence for that firm. In 2000 he formedShonstrom Research Associates, LLC, an independent research firm focused on early discovery micro and small cap equity investments. In 2005 he joined Emerging Growth Equities, Ltd. as Senior Vice President Research. He covers micro cap software companies and other stocks in the technology sector.Shonstrom has been recognized as a top analyst by Zack’s Investor Services which ranked him as a 5 star analyst in 4 of the last 6 years and top analyst overall with a 176.5% gain in 2005 and by Forbes.com/StarMine Analytics as the number one best stock picker in the Best Brokerage Analyst rankings in 2004 with a 546% gain on his recommendation of Aptimus. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). He is a graduate of UCLA with a BS in Business Administration and Columbia University with an MBA in Finance, and has taught business courses at Trinity College in Burlington, VT and graduate level security analysis at the University of Colorado Denver. | 