Whitney Tilson

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Whitney Tilson spent much of his childhood in Tanzania and Nicaragua (his parents met and married in the Peace Corps.

He studied at and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, with a bachelor's degree in Government and then went on to gain an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker 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 they went on to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for-profit private equity fund focused on minority-owned and inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million.

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 on Charlie Munger.

Among his other interests is teaching a course on financial statement analysis and business valuation for The Dickie Group appearing as a guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Lou Dobbs Moneyline and Wall $treet Week

He co manages T2 Partners LLC with Glenn H. Tongue, this is comprised of three value-oriented private investment partnerships and the Tilson Mutual Funds comprised of two value-based mutual funds, 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.