Chris O’Cull joined Stifel in 2017. Chris is a Managing Director in the Consumer and Retail Sector covering Restaurants. His past awards include #1 stock picker (2019) and #3 earnings estimator (2015) in the restaurant sector of the Thomson Reuters StarMine’s Analyst Awards and Best Up-and-Comer within the restaurant industry by Institutional Investor (2008). Before joining Stifel, Chris covered restaurant companies as a Managing Director and Equity Research Analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. Prior to becoming a sell-side analyst in 2006, Chris was an executive for a publicly-held restaurant company, with experience in finance, marketing and operations. Chris graduated from the University of Kentucky.