The privately owned investment management firm and hedge fund sponsor, Willow Creek Capital Partners, L.P. focuses on publicly traded U.S. equities. It invests invest in undervalued stocks of companies, while focusing equally on flawed companies to engage in short sales, employing a market neutral approach and a long/short equity strategy. In order to generate a bottom up stock picking approach for constructing its portfolios the firm utilizes fundamental analysis. Willow Creek Capital Partners, L.P. is based in Greenbrae, California and was founded in April 1995. The company worked with dozens of inspiring investors and business-builders during its existence. Willow Creek Capital Partners, L.P. works to identify companies that are undervalued in order to invest in them. This investment approach is based on a disciplined process. That process measures risk (downside) while identifying the catalysts for increasing value. Willow Creek Capital Partners, L.P. purposefully engages only in friendly transactions and works with talented management teams in order to achieve transformative results. Willow Creek Capital Partners, L.P. strives to assist companies it is considering making an investment in by offering suggestions for improving results across varied elements of a business’s operations thereby attempting to help to maximize value. This company has hundreds of companies analyzed during its history. It draws on the skills and experience of its employees, consulting relationships and other like-minded investors. The company aims to deliver superior long-term and risk-adjusted performance. It achieves this through investing in undervalued stocks of small-cap and mid-cap companies to construct its equity portfolios, while always maintaining a robust portfolio of fundamentally flawed short positions. Central to Willow Creek Capital Partners L.P.’s investment philosophy is a rigorous process of fundamental research. It includes meeting with company management, as well as analysis of publicly available information and proprietary and independent research. This firm invests in a diverse range of markets. To accomplish their goals it uses a wide variety of investment styles and financial instruments. This investment flexibility unlocks unique opportunities for its investment vehicles and SMAs. Willow Creek Capital Partners, L.P. has established a formal governing process and an efficient operational structure. It has utilized “outsourcing” of all non-investment functions whenever possible, to maximize efficiency.