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Thomas M. Valenzuela is a Senior Vice President at Ingalls & Snyder, where he helps to run the Stewart Asset Management team.  Tom joined Stewart Asset Management in early 2016 as the Chief Investment Officer, a position he also held at W.P. Stewart & Co., with the firm’s 8-person investment staff reporting directly to him.

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Prior to joining Stewart Asset Management, LLC, Tom was the Senior Vice President for institutional equities at Ingalls & Snyder.  Tom was also the portfolio manager for the firm’s small cap and mid cap investment strategies.

In 1979, Tom began his career in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley and later was at Lazard Freres in the capital markets and investment research department for seven years. In 1989, Tom founded Valenzuela Capital Partners LLC, a registered investment adviser with $2B in assets under management. Tom was the portfolio manager for the firm’s largest strategy, a concentrated mid-cap strategy. Valenzuela Capital Partners was acquired in 2005 by a British asset management firm. Subsequently, he joined W.P. Stewart & Co. as Chief Investment Officer.

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Tom is a graduate of Yale University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been speaker at the Milken Institute Global Conference.  He has also been a speaker at S.E.C. symposia on diversity.

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