Tal Liani is a Managing Director and a Senior Analyst with Bank of America Securities, covering Data Networking and Networking Security. In addition, he serves as the head of the Technology Supersector and as the global coordinator for Networking Equipment Research. Liani joined the technology research group in New York in 2000, after spending two years with the Merrill Lynch Emerging Markets Research group in London. In 2005-2008, he served as part-time Professor of Finance at the Tel Aviv College of Management and Tel Aviv University. Liani earned a Master of Science degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Illinois. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Tel-Aviv College of Management and a Practical Electronics Engineering Degree from the Singaslovski College in Tel-Aviv. He is based in New York.