Noel Atkinson, CFA is Senior Vice President at The Keystone Equities Group. He provides institutional sales and investment banking services, and is instrumental in transaction structuring and analysis. He has more than 8 years of experience in investment analysis, covering equities, bonds and derivative instruments. Noel rejoined Keystone in January 2007. He originally worked for Keystone from August 2003 to November 2005, and subsequently served in the Canadian REIT research group of RBC Capital Markets from December 2005 to January 2007. From 2001 to 2003, Noel was an equity analyst for Emerging Growth Equities, Ltd., a Philadelphia-area brokerage. He is a CFA Charterholder, and earned a Master of Arts (International Affairs) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.