Kim Noland High Yield: Telecom, Gaming, Leisure, Consumer Products, Retail, Paper & Forest Products, Broadcasting & Cable, Media has 30 years of experience in credit analysis of high yield and distressed securities. She has been Director of High Yield Research at Gimme Credit since 2002. Noland was formerly Head of Distressed Research at Salomon Brothers, Managing Director of High Yield and Emerging Markets Research at CIBC/Oppenheimer, Director of High Yield Trading at Merrill Lynch and Head of Bankruptcy Research at Bear Stearns. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, her J.D. from Indiana University and her M.B.A. from Harvard University.