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Ravenswood Partners
Ravenswood Partners was founded in 2023 by Ashraf Haque, who spent his entire prior investment career at Sands Capital, a $45 billion growth manager.
Ravenswood Partners
Ravenswood Partners was founded in 2023 by Ashraf Haque, who spent his entire prior investment career at Sands Capital, a $45 billion growth manager. The firm launched as an independent, fully employee-owned structure with a co-founding team that includes John Freeman, Arthur Olson, and Matt Smith. Haque named the firm after the Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. The firm runs a single flagship vehicle, the Partners Fund, which holds 10 to 20 global equities. The strategy targets what it calls “underappreciated growth” across three buckets: generational winners taking share in large end markets, companies undergoing complexity or cyclical change that masks growth, and durable franchises with unusually long cash-flow runways. The firm’s published research notes analyze positions such as Robinhood and structural shifts in China’s emerging-market complex, suggesting direct exposure to digital platforms and evolving EM allocations. Ravenswood is run by a compact team. President Luke Iglehart and Senior Analyst Eric Black joined the founding group, and Matt Smith holds a dual CFO–Chief Compliance Officer mandate — a combination that signals early institutionalization of middle- and back-office functions. The firm operates from a single office in McLean and has not disclosed total assets under management or a deployment figure. Its most recent dated content examines generative-AI-driven demand for miners and shovel-shop suppliers, pointing to active work in the AI infrastructure supply chain as recently as 2023. As a 100% employee-owned manager launched by a senior investor from a large growth platform, Ravenswood avoids the potential misalignment of external ownership. That structure, combined with its single-strategy focus and a founding team that worked together previously, makes the firm’s governance the structural differentiator — an independent partnership built to run one concentrated portfolio with shared research DNA, rather than a multi-product platform accumulating asset-gathering scale.
General information
Firm type
Bank / Wealth / Trust
Year founded
2023
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
McLean
Corporate office
7900 Westpark Drive, Suite A560, McLean, VA 22102, United States
Principals
Ashraf Haque
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer
Luke Iglehart
President
John Freeman
Co-Founder, Senior Analyst
Arthur Olson, CFA
Co-Founder, Senior Analyst
Matt Smith
Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer
Eric Black
Senior Analyst
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who makes investment decisions at Ravenswood Partners?
Founder Ashraf Haque serves as Chief Investment Officer and leads the research team. The firm was built around a shared investment philosophy developed with co-founders John Freeman and Arthur Olson, both Senior Analysts, suggesting a collaborative but ultimately Haque-led decision process.
Does Ravenswood Partners manage separate accounts or only a pooled fund?
The firm offers its concentrated global equity strategy through a flagship pooled vehicle called the Partners Fund. The website describes it as available to institutional investors but does not mention separate account structures.
How did Ashraf Haque’s prior experience shape the firm’s strategy?
Haque spent 2008 through mid-2022 at Sands Capital, a large growth-equity manager that peaked at over $45 billion in AUM during his tenure. Ravenswood’s focus on underappreciated growth and durable franchises directly extends the research approach he practiced there, though deployed in a much more concentrated portfolio.
What is the geographic coverage of the portfolio?
The firm runs a global equity mandate. Published research specifically addresses China and the evolving emerging-market asset class, and an earlier note analyzed Robinhood, indicating coverage spans US technology and select emerging markets.
What is the significance of the firm being 100% employee-owned?
Employee ownership removes the potential for external shareholders to influence investment strategy, risk-taking, or distribution decisions. For an institution evaluating alignment, it means the investment team’s economic incentives are tied entirely to long-term fund performance rather than asset-gathering or parent-company objectives.
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