Heins, John/Tilson, Whitney: The Art of Value Investing (E-Book)

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JOHN HEINSis the cofounder and President of Value Investor Media, Inc., a media company founded in 2004 to provide investing ideas and insight to sophisticated professional and individual investors, and Editor-in-Chief ofValue Investor Insight andSuperInvestor Insight. Previously, Mr. Heins was President and Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, Bertelsmann AG's U.S. magazine subsidiary, Senior Vice President and General Manager of America Online's Personal Finance business, and a reporter and staff writer forForbes magazine. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a bachelor's degree in Economics and also holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

WHITNEY TILSON is the cofounder of hedge funds Kase Capital and T2 Partners, the Tilson Mutual Funds, Value Investor Media, Inc. and the Value Investing Congress. He coauthored the book,More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times, is a CNBC Contributor, has written forForbes, theFinancial Times,Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool and TheStreet.com, and was one of the authors ofPoor Charlie's Almanack, the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger. He was one of five investors included inSmartMoney's 2006 "Power 30," and was named byInstitutional Investor in 2007 as one of "20 Rising Stars." Previously, Mr. Tilson was a founding member of Teach for America and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in Government.