Judith W. O’Connell

Judith O’Connell has over 33 years of financial services experience and is currently the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Champlain Investment Partners, LLC, a position she has held since September 17, 2004. She is also a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. Prior to founding Champlain in 2004, she was a Senior Vice President at NL Capital Management, Inc. where she directed client service, marketing, and operations for the firm’s institutional business. Before this, she was the Director of Mutual Funds/Intermediary Markets at Dresdner RCM Capital Management in San Francisco, California, where she had overall responsibility for business management, operations, marketing, sales, and product development functions for the mutual funds. Early in her career, she held management positions within investment operations, compliance, and treasury at The Boston Company. Ms. O’Connell graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and earned her Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.