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About Whitney Tilson
Whitney Tilson is the founder and CEO of Empire
Financial Research, which aims to provide
advice, commentary and in-depth research and analysis
to help people around the world become better
investors. Its first newsletter, the Empire
Financial Report, launched in April 2019.
In the year prior to launching Empire, he founded
and ran Kase Learning, through which he taught
a range of investing seminars around the world
and hosted two conferences dedicated solely to
short selling. Mr. Tilson founded and, for nearly
two decades, ran Kase Capital Management, which
managed three value-oriented hedge funds and two
mutual funds.
Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The
Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors
Beat the Market (2013) and More
Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad
Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor
Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles
T. Munger (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire
Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has
written for Forbes, the Financial Times,
Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool and
TheStreet.com. He was featured in two 60
Minutes segments in December
2008 about the housing crisis (which won an
Emmy) and in March
2015 about Lumber Liquidators, was one of
five investors included in SmartMoney's
2006 Power 30, was named by Institutional Investor
in 2007 as one of 20 Rising Stars, has appeared
dozens of times on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Fox
Business Network, was on the cover of the July
2007 Kiplinger's, has been profiled by
the Wall Street Journal and the Washington
Post, and has spoken widely on value investing
and behavioral finance. He served for two years
on the Board of Directors of Cutter & Buck, which
designs and markets upscale sportswear, until
the company was sold in early 2007.
Prior to 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. He 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 and then spent two years as a consultant
at The Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. Tilson received an MBA with High Distinction
from the Harvard Business School, where he was
elected a Baker Scholar (top 5% of class), and
graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
College, with a bachelor's degree in Government.
Mr. Tilson is an avid mountaineer - he has climbed
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Blanc, the Matterhorn and
the Eiger, and is currently training to climb
the Nose of El Capitan. He also regularly competes
in obstacle course races and is the two-time winner
and all-time record holder in the 50+ age group
at the 24-hour World's Toughest Mudder, having
completed 75 miles and nearly 300 obstacles in
2016.
Mr. Tilson spent much of his childhood in Tanzania
and Nicaragua (his parents are both educators,
were among the first couples to meet and marry
in the Peace Corps, and have retired in Kenya).
Consequently, Mr. Tilson is involved with a number
of charities focused on education reform and Africa.
For his philanthropic work, he received the 2008
John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award from
the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New
York. He was a member (and, for two years, served
as Chairman) of the Manhattan chapter of the Young
Presidents' Organization.
Mr. Tilson lives in Manhattan with his wife of
26 years and their three daughters.
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