- Whitney Tilson
Whitney Tilson is an
investor andbusinessman who also writes for financial publications.Background
Tilson spent much of his childhood in
Tanzania andNicaragua (his parents met and married while in thePeace Corps ).He studied at and graduated
magna cum laude fromHarvard College with a bachelor's degree in Government. He then went on to gain an MBA with High Distinction fromHarvard Business School , where he was elected aBaker Scholar (top 5% of class).Prior to his launching his investment career in 1999, Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter studying the competitiveness of
inner cities and inner-city-based companies nationwide. Tilson and Porter went on to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner Citywww.icic.org .Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for-profit
private equity fund focused onminority -owned and inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million.Current activities
Tilson writes a regular column on value investing for the "
Financial Times ", and has written extensively for both the "Motley Fool " and "TheStreet.com ".He is a disciple of the Graham-Dodd -Buffett-Munger school of
value investing , and was one of the authors of "Poor Charlie's Almanack", considered by many to be the definitive book onCharlie Munger .Among his other interests is teaching a course on
financial statement analysis andbusiness valuation for The Dickie Group. He has appeared as a guest onCNBC ,Bloomberg TV ,Lou Dobbs ' "Moneyline" andWall $treet Week .He co-manages T2 Partners LLC with Glenn H. Tongue; this comprises three value-oriented private investment partnerships and the Tilson Mutual Funds, composed of two value-based
mutual fund s, Tilson Focus Fund and Tilson Dividend Fund.Tilson is also the co-founder, Chairman and co-Editor-in-Chief of "Value Investor Insight", an investment
newsletter , and is the co-founder and Chairman of the Value Investing Congress, an investment conference that takes place twice per year, in New York City in November and Los Angeles in May.
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