Managing Director with over twenty years of investment experience and a track record of deep fundamental analysis of companies across industries, multi-year investment successes and building and managing investment teams. • Manage a public equity Small Cap Value strategy and launched the ARI Partners Fund, a concentrated small cap portfolio employing active engagement with the portfolio companies’ management teams and Board of Directors. • Significant due diligence experience on hundreds of sourced potential investments across a wide variety of industries. Source and underwrite potential investments through interactions with C-suite executives and Boards of Directors, facility and production site visits, interviews of industry experts and analysis of financial statements.• Manage, hire and train investment teams and create investment processes as the Managing Director/Portfolio Manager at Advisory Research and Director of Research at Zuckerman Investment Group.