Brandon Dobell, partner and group head–global services for William Blair & Co., specializes in the energy, real estate services and technology industries. Dobell was previously group head–global services research at Credit Suisse. He also worked in equity research at Bank of America Securities. Dobell has won two awards in the Financial Times/StarMine "World's Top Analysts" listing, including being named the No. 2 earnings estimator for 2008 in diversified consumer services, and the No. 1 earnings estimator for 2009 in real estate management and development. Dobell has a master's degree in business administration (finance) from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and bachelor's degrees in history and political science from the University of California, San Diego.