Kyle Joseph Tushaus, CFA, serves as Managing General Partner and founder of New West Capital, bringing extensive experience in engineering and acquisitions for family offices. He holds academic credentials in Mechanical Engineering and Finance from the University of Kansas and is a CFA charterholder. His professional background includes leadership roles at Schlesinger Companies as VP of Acquisitions and Asset Management, Norcap as VP of Acquisitions, and General Electric as Manager. Tushaus passed the Series 65 examination and maintains clean regulatory records with no disclosure events. He manages investments modeled after the original Buffett Partnership structure with a focus on long-term quality investing.

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New West Capital embraces a Quality Investing philosophy focused on investing in companies with superior business characteristics, combining financial strength and qualitative factors like management capabilities. They integrate Value Investing principles by targeting Quality businesses priced below intrinsic value, aiming for attractive companies at great prices. Their investment approach emphasizes lifelong learning over static methodologies, underpinned by productive capital allocation derived from Austrian Economics. They reject the notion of perfectly efficient markets, viewing price volatility discrepancies as evidence of behavioral influence and considering this a constant arbitrage opportunity. The firm positions temperament as a competitive advantage in their investment process.

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