Ron A. Sauer | CEO/Chief Investment Officer/Senior Portfolio Manager
Investment experience: since 1980
Firm Experience: since 1993
Mr. Sauer is the founder of Mazama Capital Management. He oversees the investment process and is the lead portfolio manager on all Mazama strategies. Mr. Sauer has been active in growth investing since 1980. In his role as President and Director of Research for Black & Company, Ron spent 14 years assisting growth managers with stock selection. Earlier in his career as an analyst at Willamette Management, and now as our lead portfolio manager, Mr. Sauer developed a highly disciplined and successful investment process. He developed Mazama's proprietary Price Performance Model (PPM) in 1985, and it is a critical component and the underlying discipline of Mazama's investment approach. Mr. Sauer earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Oregon. Currently, Mr. Sauer is on the Dean's Business Advisory Council, Charles H. Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon, as well as the national Board of Directors for the University of Oregon Alumni Association. He is also on the Board of Providence St. Vincent Medical Foundation Council of Trustees in Portland, Oregon, a 100 Top Hospitals Award national winner.
