Firm Overview
Focus
Portfolio concentration allows Spyglass to leverage its conviction; Spyglass spends more time researching each portfolio company than a more diversified manager
Consistency and Discipline
Spyglass applies the same approach year-after-year
Patience
Spyglass’s knowledge of businesses, industries and management teams spans years, not quarters, and it uses that knowledge to inform its perspective to invest when opportunity presents itself; Spyglass sticks with its winners
Persistence
Spyglass continually analyzes its process so it can learn from successes and failures. Spyglass is dedicated to improving its process every year
About the Manager
James A. Robillard – Founder, Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer
Jim graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1994 and received an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business with concentrations in Finance and Accounting in 2004. Jim worked at Baron Capital Management from 1996 to 1999 and Van Wagoner Capital Management from 1999 to 2002. During business school Jim interned at Edgewood Management LLC in 2003, and after graduating he was hired by Edgewood as a Senior Research Analyst. Jim was named to the portfolio management team of the Edgewood Growth Fund at its inception in 2006 and he was promoted to Managing Director in 2010. In 2015, after 11 years with the Company, Edgewood offered Jim the opportunity to start Spyglass Capital Management LLC with its backing and the backing of its senior management.
Characteristics
♦ Fundamental growth stock investor
♦ Independent thinking, bottom-up driven
♦ Long-term oriented
♦ Willing to take out-of-consensus positions based on research
♦ Capitalizes on volatility from short-term orientation of many market participants
♦ Deep buy-side, sell-side and company management relationships
Background
♦ Managing Director and member of portfolio management team at Edgewood Management LLC
♦ 24 years of industry experience
♦ 14 years of portfolio management team experience
Education
♦ BA, Vanderbilt University
♦ MBA, Chicago Graduate School of Business (Booth) – concentrations in Finance and Accounting
concentrations in Finance and Accounting