Luke is the founder of American Capital Management, Inc. He began his career in 1967 at the U.S. Trust Company of New York and was a Senior Investment Officer in the Investment Division. During this period, he specialized in smaller company investing and research and managed a pooled fund of smaller company investments for over a decade. His responsibilities also included the management of pension portfolios and he served on the Stock Selection Committee. He has a BS from Boston College and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts. Luke is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Military Intelligence, U.S. Army Reserve and served with the 101st Airborne Division and on the Army Staff, The Pentagon.

Previously, David worked at Morgan Stanley for two years in their Leveraged and Acquisition Finance Group where his responsibilities included analysis for underwriting and syndicating high yield bonds and leveraged loans. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, David served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He coordinated with foreign militaries in the Pacific region on missile defense measures and deployed to Iraq the Army’s first weapons system designed to identify and destroy incoming mortar and rocket rounds. David graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Political Science. He began his investment career as a summer research intern at ACM and was subsequently employed as a research analyst before starting active military service.

Tom was with U.S. Trust from 1993 to 2007 where he became a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager in the Equities division. His responsibilities included managing an equity mutual fund, a common trust fund and portfolios for private clients. He spent his first two years at U.S. Trust in the Economics Department working closely with the Chief Economist. Tom has a BA from Boston College and an MBA from the Columbia Business School.

Cathy joined American Capital Management, Inc. after eight years as a Managing Director and Principal at European Investors where she was the head portfolio manager of a U.S. equities fund and Chairperson of the U.S. and Global Investment Committees. Cathy was also a portfolio manager of a midsized hedge fund at Ridgecrest Partners and the lead manager of two small cap core funds at the Guardian Life Insurance Co. For a number of years, she was a research analyst covering various industry sectors including small cap technology companies at Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham, Furman Selz and NatWest Securities. Her investment career began in 1975 in the Corporate Finance Department of the Irving Trust Company where she was a financial consultant for six years. Cathy graduated from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Kristin was the President and Chief Investment Officer of Flood Gamble Associates (FGA) before joining American Capital Management, Inc. She was in business together at FGA with her late husband, Charles Flood, since 1983. Prior to forming their firm, she was Senior Vice President—Deputy General Manager of Manufacturers Hanover in charge of equity investments for the Trust Division. Earlier, she was a securities analyst with Cotty Fellman, Merrill Lynch and New Court Securities. Kristin has served on the Board of Trustees of Federal Realty Investment Trust since 1995; and the Board of Directors of Ethan Allen Interiors from 1992–2015. In addition, she is Chairman of Scenic Hudson, an environmental organization involved in land preservation and advocacy for the Hudson River Valley. Kristin graduated from Wellesley College as a Durant Scholar with a BA in Economics and is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Investment Counselor.

Erin joined in March 2021 to become ACM’s first Head of Business Development. Most recently, she spent six years at Cohen & Steers, where she was Institutional Head of Sales and Relationship Management for the Northeast region of the U.S. She was also responsible for many of the firm’s strategic relationships. Prior to Cohen & Steers, Erin was a Sales Executive at The Vanguard Group, focusing on wirehouses and independent broker dealers in the Northeast. She began her career of working with institutional investors at Alliance Bernstein, where she held a variety of roles in sales and relationship management in New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Erin graduated from Lafayette College with a BA in Business and Economics.

Michael joined the firm in August of 2019.  Previously, he spent the past 16 years at EII Capital Management Inc. as a Managing Director & Principal.  He was the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Operating Officer for the past three years.  Prior to joining EII, Michael spent 10 years as a Vice President with J.P. Morgan Asset Management Inc. in a variety of client interfacing roles with a focus on Institutional clients.  He is a member of the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP) and the Mutual Fund Directors Forum (MFDF) and has served on a variety of Irish Management Company Boards in Ireland.  He received his B.S. in Finance and Business Management from the State University of New York at Old Westbury.  

Previously, Evelyn was an Investment Analyst with Alpine Woods Capital Advisors, where she analyzed public securities in the Asian real estate, healthcare, and consumer sectors. Prior to Alpine Woods, she was an Investment Banking analyst at BMO Capital Markets, where she analyzed strategic alternatives for healthcare services and medical device companies. She started her career in the Investment Banking Division at Bank of America. Evelyn graduated from Columbia University where she majored in Economics and Political Science. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Previously, John was an Investment Banking Analyst within the Real Estate coverage group at Credit Suisse. While there, he assisted leisure and lodging companies, homebuilders, REITs and gaming companies with debt and equity offerings. Outside of capital markets related work, John also assisted these companies with mergers and acquisitions related work. Additionally, he held investment banking positions within the Industrials and Securities, Defense and Government Services sectors during college. John graduated from Vanderbilt University where he earned a BA in Economics and minored in Financial Economics and Spanish.