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.

Timothy Woods, CFA

  • Senior Managing Director
  • Senior Research Analyst
  • Chief Risk Officer
  • Industry Experience: 35+ years
  • MBA – University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Tim rejoined Lisanti Capital Growth in 2026. Prior to rejoining Lisanti Tim was a Consultant for Photon Insights, a Tech AI firm that specializes in Investment Research use cases for Asset Management and worked in Endowment Research at PGIM. Tim originally worked at Lisanti from 2015-2022 as A Senior Research Analyst and Chief Risk Officer. Tim worked with Mary Lisanti at Bankers Trust, where he followed Energy, Industrials, and Health Care as part of the Small/Mid Cap Team and then managed the team and the small cap product after Mary’s departure. He launched and managed the Smith Barney Small Cap Growth mutual fund and was at JP Morgan Asset Management as a Senior Equity Research Analyst on their large cap growth team. Tim specializes in research in the Health Care sector. He also serves as the firm’s Risk Officer. Tim is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is a member of the CFA Society of New York.

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.

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.

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.