Matthew Ganucheau, CFA is a senior analyst and portfolio manager at Ganucheau Capital Management, a long term focused value oriented institutional and private client money manager in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to accepting his current position, he worked at a multi-strategy hedge fund where he was responsible for generating fundamentally driven equity long and short investment recommendations. Mr. Ganucheau's background is primarily in equity research with a specific focus on valuation. His investment philosophy is based on a value/contrarian outlook, and he seeks to find companies that are cheap on a normalized earnings basis that have the ability to return to their prior, higher level of earnings. Mr. Ganucheau has a degree in Economics from Southern Methodist University, and an MBA in Finance from Texas Christian University, where he was a portfolio manager for the school's Education Investment Fund. Mr. Ganucheau is a member of the CFA Institute and the Dallas-Fort Worth CFA Society.