TEAM
Mary Lisanti, CFA
- President, Managing Member
- Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer
- Industry Experience: 45+ years
- Princeton University - BA in English
Mary Lisanti is a 45+ year veteran of small cap growth research and investing; she is the founder of Lisanti Capital Growth. Mary spent the first twelve years of her career as a small cap analyst and strategist on Wall Street. Over her career, she has managed small cap portfolios at three premier asset management companies. In her most recent position prior to founding Lisanti Capital, as CIO of ING Investments, LLC, (1998-2003) she was responsible for building the active equity management team. During her tenure there, assets under management in her area grew from several hundred million to several billion dollars. Prior to that, Mary was at Strong Capital Management as Senior Portfolio Manager for both the Small Cap Growth and Mid Cap Growth Strategies. From 1993-1996, Mary was Managing Director and Head of the Small/Mid Cap team at Bankers Trust Company. Mary is also a member of the NYSSA.
Michael Corelli
- Managing Director – Research
- Senior Research Analyst
- Industry Experience: 30+ years
- Bucknell University—B.A., Political Science
Mike joined Lisanti on November 1, 2020, as Managing Director, Senior Research Analyst. Mike worked with Mary and Kitty at Bankers Trust and then went on to a successful career as an analyst and ultimately Portfolio Manager and Head of the Small/Mid Cap Growth Team and PIMCO Equity and its successor, Allianz. Mike then went on to start and manage his own hedge fund for six years, before joining Lisanti Capital. Mike focuses on growth stocks in the healthcare and technology sectors.
Monique Schulman
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Industry Experience: 30+ years
Monique Schulman has over 30 plus year experience in the industry. Her experience has been vast as she has been a sales assistant, and Advisor, an OTC trader and an operations manager before moving to Compliance roles. Working for Smith Barney and its predecessor firms, Ms. Schulman had been promoted from Control Administrator to Regional Compliance Officer to Divisional Compliance Director for the Firm’s largest Division. She holds series 6, 7, 63, 9, 10, 99, and 24 licenses.
Kitty Martin
- Chief Administrative Officer, Operations/Client Service
- Industry Experience: 31+ years
- New York University - Associates, Business Administration
Kitty joined Lisanti Capital Growth in 2008 as an Operations Specialist. Prior to joining Lisanti, she was with Manhasset Capital Management, LLC (hedge fund) since 2005 as the Office Manager and portfolio assistant. There, she handled all the administrative aspects of the firm from working with vendors to handling trade discrepancies with the Prime Broker. She also worked with Mary at ING, where she handled administrative work and special projects. From 1991 – 2001, she was a Business Manager for the small/mid and large cap equity fund groups at Deutsche Asset Management/Bankers Trust, where she worked with Mary Lisanti.
William M. Collopy
- Investment Research Analyst
- Operations and Trading
- Industry experience: 6+ years
- Fairfield University—BS in Finance and Accounting, Dolan School of Business
Will joined Lisanti Capital Growth on December 7, 2020, from Allianz Global Investors, where he was an Internal Investment Consultant and Associate for the past three and a half years. Will handles the firm’s trading and supports senior analysts on Technology stocks.
Peter O’Connor
- Investment Research Analyst
- Operations and Trading
- Manhattan College—MBA and BS in Finance and Economics
Peter joined Lisanti in January of 2021, shortly after graduating from Manhattan College. He supports senior analysts on Industrial and Energy stocks and assists Kitty in Operations.