Industry Experience: 23 Years

Mr. Lenhart is responsible for portfolio management and oversees the firm’s data science capabilities, which include data sourcing and ingestion, statistical learning methods, quantitative model research and dashboard development.

Prior to McKinley Capital Management’s acquisition by Denali, Ken was Chief Operating Officer at McKinley Management, LLC where he helped the firm diversify into private equity, economic and policy research and advisory, and private non-bank commercial lending business units.

Before his role as COO, Ken was the Senior Quantitative Research Analyst and subsequently Director of Data Science for McKinley Capital Management, LLC, working on investment model enhancements and alternative data for quantitative long-only, long-short and market neutral global, non-U.S. and emerging market equity and derivatives strategies for institutional clients.

Ken’s prior experience also includes roles as the Director of Equities and Quantitative Research for Midwest Asset Management, Inc. and as a Systems Analyst for Deloitte Consulting where he implemented financial data models for a large global investment bank.

Education

• M.B.A. with concentrations in Analytic Finance, Econometrics and Statistics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• B.A. in Economics, Northwestern University