Firm: Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
Title: CEO
Street Cred: She's currently the CEO of her namesake investment research firm, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group.
Before that, she was a managing director and analyst at Oppenheimer where she gained notoriety in 2007 for predicting Citigroup would have problems with its mortgage holdings. In 2008, she graced the cover of Fortune magazine. CNBC viewers selected her as the Power Player of 2008.
She has been bearish on the financial sector for some time. Last summer, she made a call that the financial sector would shed 50,000 jobs.
She predicted a wave of muni bond defaults during a 60 Minutes interview back in 2010. That hasn't happened.
She graduated from Brown.