Meredith Whitney

Meredith Whitney is the founder and CEO of the investment firm Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, LLC. Before founding the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, she was a managing director and a senior analyst for Oppenheimer & Co., where she attracted national attention for her predictions about housing prices, the mortgage industry, and the coming financial crisis. She has appeared on Fortune magazine's list of the fifty most powerful women in business for four consecutive years. In 2009 Time magazine also recognized her as one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.