About Whitney R. Tilson

Whitney Tilson is the founder and Managing Partner of T2 Partners LLC and the Tilson Mutual Funds. The former manages three value-oriented private investment partnerships, while the latter is comprised of two value-based mutual funds, Tilson Focus Fund and Tilson Dividend Fund. Mr. 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.

Mr. Tilson currently writes a regular column on value investing for the Financial Times, has written for the Motley Fool and TheStreet.com, was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack, the definitive book on Charlie Munger, and teaches financial statement analysis and business valuation for The Dickie Group. He was one of five investors included in SmartMoney's Power 30, has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Lou Dobbs Moneyline and Wall $treet Week, has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and has spoken widely on the topics of value investing and behavioral finance. He serves on the Board of Directors of Cutter & Buck, a public company that designs and markets upscale sportswear.

Prior to his launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. 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. Mr. Tilson and Professor Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, of which Mr. Tilson was Executive Director. Mr. 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.

Before business school, Mr. Tilson was a founding member of Teach for America, the national teacher corps, and later spent two years as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, with a focus on pharmaceuticals and health care.

Mr. Tilson received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker Scholar (top 5% of class). He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, with a bachelor's degree in Government.

Mr. Tilson spent much of his childhood in Tanzania and Nicaragua (his parents met and married in the Peace Corps and have lived in Ethiopia and Kenya for the past 11 years). He is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization, is Vice Chairman of the KIPP Academy, which operates four charter schools in New York City, is on the board of the Fistula Foundation, which supports the Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Fistula Hospital, and is Vice Chairman of the Thorn Tree Project, which focuses on educating Samburu children in Kenya.

Mr. Tilson lives in Manhattan with his wife and three daughters.