Mr. Burke is co-portfolio manager and responsible for general executive management. Mr. Burke received a B.S.B.A. degree in 1970 from the University of Florida with a double major in Finance and Business Administration. After a tour of duty in Viet Nam he did post baccalaureate work there in accounting.
After working 15 years with private and public companies as a financial consultant with DataBase Research Corporation, he developed a quantitative buy/sell indicator based on key balance sheet items found to have predictive qualities related to a company's future earnings.
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He started Beacon Street Research in 1992, to apply this accounting based algorithm to investment portfolios and private research to institutional investors such as Lehman Brothers and Credit Swiss-First Boston. In 2001 he teamed up with Herron Weems to form Beacon Street Capital, LLC.