In 2024, I founded KNA Capital Management, an Ohio-registered investment advisor that specializes in managing a long-only concentrated portfolio of quality global businesses. I'm a finance lecturer at The University of Dayton where I also serve as the Director of the Hanley Center for ESG Investing. My thoughts on investing can be found on my blog, Flyover Stocks (www.flyoverstocks.com).After graduating with a history degree in 2003, I started from scratch in finance and have spent the last 20+ years learning and improving as an investor. My learning process was accelerated by writing about investing since 2005, including my book, Keeping Your Dividend Edge (2016), and hundreds of blog posts and articles for sites such as Morningstar, Investor’s Chronicle (UK), the CFA Institute, and The Motley Fool.My philosophy is rooted in the simple (yet hard to do) principle of investing in companies with economic moats, managed by dedicated and capable stewards, at attractive prices and then - critically - not getting in the way of that combination as it compounds value. I have eight years of buy-side experience as a generalist analyst at Ensemble Capital and Johnson Investment Counsel, and nearly four years of sell-side experience at Morningstar where I led the company’s equity stewardship methodology and covered companies in the basic materials, consumer, and industrial sectors. Prior to my time in institutional research, I was an analyst, newsletter editor, and writer for The Motley Fool, supported private wealth managers at SunTrust Asset Management, and was a licensed representative at Vanguard.