Founders

Original Eight Founders

Charles “Chuck” Murphy

Charles Murphy, CFA, is the Founder and Chairman of The Economic Club of Texas and the Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at Austin-based Liberty Park Capital Management.  He previously worked in equity research at Sidoti and in Morgan Stanley’s investment management division, and he was recognized in the Wall Street Journal’s 2011 Best on the Street list as a “Master Stock Picker.”

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Brian Bares
Brian Bares is the Founder and Chairman of Bares Capital Management (BCM), a concentrated, long-only equity strategy with a qualitative, bottom-up research-focused firm, founded in 2000. 

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Kurt Probe
Kurt Probe, CFA, is a Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager at Liberty Park Capital Management in Austin, where he also serves as Director of Research.  He joined the firm in June 2015 and leads the research workflow, including the team’s routine research process and portfolio reviews.  He earned a BBA in Finance with honors and a minor in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin and is listed as an Investment Adviser Representative with Liberty Park.

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Alexander Schoenbaum
Alexander Schoenbaum is the Chief Executive Officer and Co Founder of Crowd Out Capital, an Austin based marketplace lending firm focused on helping middle market companies raise debt. He has more than a dozen years of experience consulting and raising capital across industries.

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Dale West
Dale West is Senior Managing Director, Public Markets at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, where his team oversees market equity assets including hedge funds and related strategies. He serves on TRS investment committees, is a trustee of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments, and holds an MBA from Stanford University.

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Santiago Iturbe
Santiago Iturbe is a Principal at Mithril Capital Management. He previously worked as an equity analyst at Sigma Capital Management, Surveyor Capital, and OSS Capital Management, and he studied at Yale University.

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Brian Gilmore
Brian Gilmore is the Co-Founder and President of Crowd Out Capital. He previously worked in the securities industry at firms including Westlake Securities and Tejas Securities Group in Austin, and HC Wainwright in New York.

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Basil Qunibi

Basil Qunibi is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Atom Investors, a global multi manager market neutral hedge fund. He previously founded Novus and served as its Chairman and CEO, and earlier worked at Merrill Lynch and Ivy Asset Management, and he earned his economics degree from the University of Virginia.

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