Jay Howard Freedman

Mr. Jay H.
Freedman, CFA MBA, is a Chief Investment Officer & Investment Analyst at Crystal Rock Capital Management LLC.
He is a founder and managing partner of the firm.
He is also the firm's Portfolio Manager and has analytic responsibilities for consumer-related industries.
He founded the firm in 2005.
Prior to forming Crystal Rock, Mr. Freedman created and managed Credit Suisse First Boston’s Global Valuation Strategy Group from 2000 through 2005.
The group provided insights into shareholder value creation for corporate boards and strategic decision makers, institutional equity investors, and CSFB’s global equity research department.
He was also Chairman of CSFB’s Focus Stock List.
Prior to joining CSFB (in late 2000 through the DLJ merger), he was a managing director at Lincoln Capital Management Company (1992 – 2000), a privately held institutional investment manager.
He was a member of LCM’s management committee and was responsible for investing in several consumer and leisure sectors.
While at LCM, he developed and implemented a proprietary market-based DCF valuation discipline.
His investment career started at Kidder, Peabody & Company in 1982, where he was responsible for covering the Household Products and Cosmetics industries.
He holds an M.B.A.
from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a B.S in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Public Accountant.