Industry update from J.P. Morgan analyst and managing director Ann Duignan, 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15.

Ann Duignan is a managing director at J.P. Morgan, covering the U.S. machinery sector. Ann has ranked # 1 and/or # 2 in Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team survey and the Greenwich Poll for over a decade.  Ann joined J.P. Morgan from Bear Stearns, where she was the diversified industrials analyst for five years.

Prior to that, she worked at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. as the capital goods analyst. In her five years with Eaton Corporation, she held positions in the Aerospace Controls Division as vice president and general manager, in the Truck Components Division as a business development and strategy director, and at corporate as manager of business development. She also spent two years with management consultant Booz & Company and a number of years in the automotive supply industry.  Ann holds an honors degree in agricultural engineering from University College Dublin Ireland, a higher diploma in mathematical modeling and computer simulation from Trinity College Dublin Ireland, and an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN.