Christopher M. Gaito

Chris joined Conestoga in June 2025 as Client Portfolio Manager, where he works closely with our Investment Team to provide communication of the firm’s investment strategies with clients, prospects, and consultants on behalf of our Portfolio Managers, while also producing value-added content to external stakeholders.  Prior to joining Conestoga, Chris was a Partner and Co-Founder at Furey Research Partners, a preeminent independent research firm focused on the Small Cap equity market. In his sixteen years there, Chris was primarily responsible for forming and managing client relationships with institutional investors, content creation and development, and running the firm’s marketing and conference operations. Prior to that, Chris was a Vice President in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity division, spending nine years in a variety of roles across research, sales, and trading, including institutional sales and client relationship management, in both their US and international equity units. His time there also included multiple years on the US Institutional Equity Product Marketing desk, running the firm’s daily “morning meeting” and managing the flow of all information to the global equity division. Chris received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1999.