Matt co-founded Northwest Investment Counselors in 1998 bringing his extensive investment and analytical skills to the firm. Matt has worked in the investment industry over 30 years with experience in portfolio management and equity analytics. Always interested in the challenges of investing in public companies, Matt approaches investments with a keen enjoyment and understanding of fundamental and quantitative analysis. Matt began his investment career in 1988 with Wilshire Associates, one of the largest pension consultants, in Santa Monica, Ca. There, he worked as an analyst assessing manager performance and risk for some of the largest defined benefit pension plans in the country. Matt