Chris Gaito

Mr. Christopher M.
Gaito is a Client Portfolio Manager at Conestoga Capital Advisors LLC.
He joined Conestoga in June 2025 and 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, he 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, he 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, he 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.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1999.