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• Raub Brock Capital Management is an independent, nationwide SEC Registered Investment Advisor that manages approximately $2 billion for institutional and private clients. For institutional clients, the firm offers its Dividend Growth Portfolio, a concentrated, low turnover portfolio of high-quality, large market capitalization companies that exhibit a consistent pattern of above average dividend growth.• Work directly as a member of the Investment Committee, which makes decisions on a consensus basis, to monitor the existing portfolio, and identify and select top candidates for inclusion in the portfolio.• Perform rigorous, fundamental, bottoms-up research on 120 to 130 companies to identify and select the top candidates for inclusion in the Dividend Growth Portfolio, and provide conclusions to the Investment Committee.• Promoted to Senior Research Analyst in December 2017, and to Director of Research in October 2024.

New York, Ny, Us

• Performed deep-dive fundamental, bottoms-up company and industry analysis to source investment ideas across all sectors for the Small-Cap growth equity funds. Focused research on the energy, industrials and materials sectors as a sector specialist for the Smid-, Mid-, and Large-Cap growth equity funds.• Created and maintained in-depth financial and valuation models (P&Ls, Balance Sheets, Cash flows, DCF, detailed product estimates) on over 100 companies using inputs from survey work, company management meetings (both public and private), industry relationships, and key data from company filings and data services.• Presented investment recommendations to portfolio managers, and worked directly with them to establish and maintain appropriate position sizes in the highest conviction ideas in the Small-, Smid-, Mid-, and Large-Cap growth equity funds, which collectively manage over $20 billion in assets.• Regularly met with senior management teams to reassess investment thesis and discuss current trends, corporate strategy, and competitive landscape and what steps could be taken to improve positioning and investment performance.• Managed a portfolio of global energy, industrials and metals and mining stocks as part of the Alger Analyst Fund between 2012 and 2014. Consistently ranked as a top 5 performer by generating outperformance relative to similar stocks in the Russell Mid-Cap Growth Index. Relative outperformance of 13.3% in 2014, 4.8% in 2013, and 1.6% in 2012. Alger Analyst Fund was changed and re-branded to Alger Mid-Cap Focus Fund in 2015.• Promoted to Associate Analyst in March 2008, and to Vice President, Analyst in October 2010.

• Assisted senior research analyst in coverage of Integrated Oils (BP, COP, CVX, HES, MRO, MUR, OXY, RDSA, TOT and XOM) Independent Refiners (FTO, SUN, TSO, VLO, WNR).• Developed and published regular and special research reports that evaluated operational performance, assessed competitive landscape, and provided investment recommendations incorporating information obtained from field research, management engagement, industry relationships, earnings calls, and in-depth financial modeling and scenario analysis.• Regularly interacted with investors to discuss reports and analysis to assist with their investment process.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Analyzed the commercial paper and equity markets to assist the Board of Governors and senior staff officials in creating economic forecasts and determining monetary policy.• Designed and implemented internal systems for analyzing executive stock option grants and exercises of large public companies to determine their effect on compensation and corporate profits. Co-wrote report used by the Board of Governors and the Wall Street Journal to support the expensing of stock options.• Constructed quantitative systems using SAS and Stata to examine the relationship between stock returns and the timing of earnings estimates, resulting in a research paper on the counterproductive efforts of managing earnings expectations.• Promoted to Assistant Economist in February 2002, one of three people in the prior ten years to advance on this path.

Mba, Finance

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