Keith Housum

Mr. Keith Housum is Managing Director & Equity Research Analyst at Northcoast Research Partners LLC.
He joined the firm as Managing Director and Equity Research Analyst in May 2009 covering the Business Services sector, with specific emphasis on AIDC technology, Information Technology, Point of Sale Technology, Public Safety Communications, Specialty Technology Distribution and Workplace Safety industries.
Prior to joining Northcoast Research, Mr. Housum was Managing Director, Accounting and Finance at FTN Midwest Securities Corp, from 2005 to 2009, where his responsibilities included overseeing the reporting of financial activities.
Before joining FTN Midwest, Keith spent 10 years at Ernst & Young LLP in various escalating levels of responsibility, leaving as a Tax Senior Manager.
He and his team have developed an extensive array of industry contacts to draw from, including 50 privately held barcode printing VAR’s, 50 mobile computer resellers, 500 retailers, 20 professional radio communications device resellers, and a broad number of point-of-sale solutions providers and technology VAR’s.
In additional to providing proprietary equity research and custom research data to institutional investors.
Mr. Housum received his Bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University.
He is a Certified Public Accountant.