Whitney R. Tilson is the founder of T2 Partners LLC, which manages three value-oriented private investment partnerships and two mutual funds. He is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Value Investor Insight, a highly respected and widely read investment newsletter and is Chairman of The Value Investing Congress. Mr. Tilson writes a column for FinancialTimes.com. He has been a guest on Lou Dobbs Moneyline and Wall $treet Week, and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and in a cover story in Kiplinger's. He earned an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard in 1994.

John L. Schwartz is the co-founder and CEO of STI. Prior to forming STI, Schwartz, a Board-certified physician, founded CME, Inc., a provider of cutting-edge clinical information to medical professionals. CME became America's largest proprietary provider of continuing medical education. CME was creating and delivering hundreds of conferences and tradeshows per year by 1999, when Schwartz sold CME in a 9-figure all-cash transaction to a British multinational. Schwartz has invested employing value investing principles to more than beat the major market averages. Educated at MIT, Columbia and NYU, he is on the Board of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science.

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