Doug Kirkpatrick, CFA is the founder and chief investment officer of AlphaGlider. Doug has 26 years of professional investing experience, including 15 years at two global, publicly listed mutual fund companies. Doug was most recently at Janus (now Janus Henderson) where he was a co-portfolio manager of the Janus International Equity Fund and an international equity analyst covering international consumer goods and industrials sectors for the Janus family of funds. Doug began his investment career in 1996 at Artisan Partners where he was a limited partner and a member of its Artisan International Fund team, responsible for its technology and telecommunications investments. At Artisan and Janus, Doug honed his growth at a reasonable price investment style alongside three Morningstar International-Stock Fund Managers of the Year (Helen Young Hayes and Brent Lynn at Janus, and Mark Yockey at Artisan).

Doug’s education and experience have been rigorous and multi-disciplined, helping him navigate the complex and constantly evolving global investment landscape. He earned a BA in Political Science and a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University, an MS in Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston, and an MBA at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. A dual citizen of the United States and New Zealand, Doug has lived in five countries (Austria, Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United States) and traveled to nearly 60. Doug has held the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation since 2000. Most of Doug’s family’s investable net worth is invested in the AlphaGlider ESG Global Moderately Aggressive Strategy (AG-MA/esg).

Doug and his wife of 31 years have two sons in graduate school. When not working or going to school, all four can usually be found hiking, running, skiing, biking, or climbing the nearest mountain.

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Doug Kirkpatrick, CFA
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