C.T. Fitzpatrick founded Vulcan Value Partners in 2007 after a 17-year career at Southeastern Asset Management, where he worked as a principal and portfolio manager. He holds an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management and a BS in Corporate Finance with a minor in English from the University of Alabama, and is a CFA Charterholder. Jeff St. Denis was appointed President and CEO in 2023, having joined the firm in 2016 where he previously managed institutional relationships. The firm employs 45 individuals as of July 2025, with 36% involved in investment roles. Employee ownership has expanded from eight owners in 2021 to 21 in March 2025, demonstrating significant alignment between management and staff.

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We are value investors—business analysts with a long-term time horizon focused on purchasing publicly traded companies that are competitively entrenched at significant discounts to our estimate of intrinsic worth. Our goal is to compound capital at real rates of return significantly in excess of inflation over our five-year time horizon. The Focus Plus strategy targets securities with sustainable competitive advantages that produce consistent free cash flow, typically holding 7 to 14 companies with average market capitalization of $594.5 billion and a free cash flow yield of 3.3%. We do not employ any leverage. Instead, we use options to sell volatility when it is expensive and buy volatility when it is cheap. Our primary objective is to minimize the risk of permanently losing capital over our long-term time horizon, which is five years.

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