About Pitch The PM
Pitch The PM is the Professional Investor’s Podcast that provides a deep-dive into a stock’s investment case using the Variant View Investment Checklist. It is an open exploration of the research process in real time using high-conviction ideas from top PM’s and Analysts. Join the journey as Doug fills out his Buffett advised, 20-slot lifetime punch card. We learn and laugh together.
- A decade of market neutral equity investing at Citadel & Millennium.
- Studying the great investors like Buffett, Munger, Lynch & Greenblatt.
- The latest AI tools to improve idea velocity, accuracy and conviction.

About the Host
Doug Garber
Chief Investment Officer & Director of Research

Pitch the PM is hosted by Doug Garber, a former Citadel Analyst and Millennium Senior Portfolio Manager. Doug was initially trained at Citadel by a former SAC/Point 72 Analyst who worked directly for Steve Cohen before becoming a PM at Citadel. Doug was ranked as a top five analyst while at Citadel’s Surveyor Capital and was the only one to receive that designation twice during his tenure. He managed a multi-sector, multi-strategy team at Millennium under Katahdin Capital. Prior to his buy-side career, Doug worked in sell-side equity research honing modeling and primary research skills.Doug is currently the CIO and DoR at the Westport Alpha Group.
Doug graduated from Tulane University with a BSM and Master of Finance. He was selected to participate in the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Endowment Fund that utilized quantitative factors to outperform its benchmark and be an Investment Research Manager in the Burkenroad Reports “Stocks Under Rocks” equity research program. Doug has a passion for iterating on the investment process and a quirky sense of humor. He lives in Westport, CT with his wife, Lexi, and three kids. When he is not reading a 10-K, you can find him coaching youth soccer, inverted on his yoga mat or on an eFoil looking for Zuck.
The Team

Spencer Gantsoudes, CFA
Managing Director
Stride CapitalMorgan Stanley
Harvard University

Daniel Vogelzang
Head of Partners and Marketing
Brand & Strategy Consultant
Skidmore College
