Mr. Ross Gilardi is a Research Analyst at BofA Securities, Inc.

He is a managing director in US Equity Research covering Machinery, based in New York.

He joined Merrill Lynch in 1999 and has covered the sector since 2012.

He is currently ranked second in the Machinery category for the US Institutional Investor All-America Research poll and has ranked in the top five every year since 2014. Prior to covering US Machinery, he worked in London, and ranked as the #1 EMEA Paper and Forest Products analyst in the EMEA Institutional Investor Research poll.

He has a BA in economics from Boston College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.