Jonathan M. Waite, CFA, CPA, is the founder of Precipio, which officially launched in early 2009. In 2006, Jonathan launched McKay Capital Management, LLC, which manages a long-short, consumer discretionary focused equity fund. Since inception through the end of 2008, the fund beat the relevant consumer discretionary index by 64 percentage points with less than a third of the volatility (including a net performance of up 7.5% in 2008).

Before McKay, Jonathan was the senior equity restaurant analyst at McDonald Investments/KeyBanc Capital Markets. Jonathan developed proprietary “grass roots” survey work to bring value-added industry insight and market leading investment recommendations to his institutional investor client base. This included developing relationships with franchisees, consultants, restaurant operators as well as executives from small, mid and large-cap companies.

Jonathan was recognized twice by the Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” for stock picking in his industry (ranked #1 in 2003 and #2 in 2005). In addition, he was highly ranked by Zachs and Starmine for his stock picking.