Dan Kraninger became President & CEO of NorthCoast Asset Management in 2004. Previously, Mr. Kraninger was Senior Vice President of GE Private Asset Management (GEPAM) a $2.5 billion money management subsidiary of GE Capital. His responsibility at GEPAM was directing their Private Client Group – a team that advised and managed money for over 1,500 high-net worth clients. Prior to GE, he served as President of O’Shaughnessy Capital Management (OCM), a $1 billion Greenwich investment adviser and mutual fund manager that he helped establish in 1996 with founder, Jim O’Shaughnessy. OCM later sold its assets to Netfolio, LLC in January, 2000. Before OCM, Mr. Kraninger worked at Merrill Lynch as a member of the 1994 JET Program and he is a graduate of Villanova University in Philadelphia.

Frank Ingarra, Jr. joined NorthCoast in 2011 and is a member of the investment team. Prior to joining NorthCoast, Mr. Ingarra served as a portfolio manager of the Hennessy Funds since 2000. He has engaged in portfolio management since 2003 and equities trading, and began his financial career working alongside famed “What Works on Wall Street” author, James O’Shaughnessy as Head Trader. Mr. Ingarra continued to manage these funds after they were acquired by Hennessy Funds in 2000, and was promoted to the co-portfolio manager and head trader for the entire family of quantitatively managed funds. Mr. Ingarra holds an MBA from the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a minor in Business from Villanova University.

Patrick Jamin joined NorthCoast Asset Management in January, 2012 as Chief Investment Officer. In his role he oversees all investment activity including portfolio management and investment research. Previously Mr. Jamin was a Partner at Numeric Investors directing the effort for all European Strategies and managing Numeric’s World Fundamental Statistical Arbitrage Strategy. Prior to that he served as a Portfolio Manager at Standard Pacific Capital and as a Senior Quantitative Analyst at AIM Investments. Patrick earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School with high distinction (2002), a Masters of Science in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris (1997), a diploma of “Ingenieur de l’Ecole Polytechnique” from Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France (1995). Patrick is a CFA® charterholder and a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).