Gautam Dhingra

Gautam Dhingra is the Founder and CEO of High Pointe Capital Management, LLC. He developed the firm's pioneering investment approach based on the concept of Franchise Quality and under his leadership High Pointe has built an enviable investment performance record.

Gautam was a faculty member at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management for two years. In this role he designed and taught a course entitled The Business of Investing in the school’s MBA curriculum.

Gautam’s research interests include ESG Investing and Valuation of Intangible Assets. High Pointe’s research paper regarding the efficacy of ESG Investing is available via the link below.

http://highpointecapital.com/docs/ESG.Investing.A.Constraint.or.An.Opportunity.pdf

Gautam holds a Ph.D. in finance, with specialization in investments and econometrics, from the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. At Warrington, he taught two courses in securities analysis and derivatives.

Over the years, Gautam has volunteered his time to bring excellence to the investment profession though his work with various CFA organizations. His activities for the CFA Institute and the local Society include:

• Chairman, CFA Chicago (2013-2014)

• Board of Directors, CFA Chicago for six years

• Board of Regents for CFA Institute’s Financial Analysts Seminar (Three Years)

• Judge, CFA Global Research Challenge – Local and Global Finals (Two Years)

• Chair, Education Committee, CFA Chicago (Three Years)

• Organizer, Academic Research Conference and Stock Analyst Conference

Gautam started his career as director of investment research at Hewitt, a consulting firm specializing in working with Fortune 500 clients. He designed Hewitt’s asset allocation and asset-liability management models. He rose to be the partner in charge of Hewitt’s consulting for the Midwest, southwest and western United States and over the years his clients included the following twelve members of the Fortune 100 List

• Target

• Sprint

• Safeway

• John Deere

• Allstate

• Liberty Mutual

• Verizon

• Motorola

• Citicorp

• General Dynamics

• Honeywell

• Johnson Controls

Gautam has written and published articles on various investment topics in publications such as Pension Investment Handbook, a primer for industry professionals. He has been quoted by various media outlets including Reuters, CNN, Fox Business, BBC, National Public Radio, and Chicago Tribune.

Gautam can be reached by email at [email protected]