Allen Benello, White River Partners
Allen Carpé Benello, CFA is the co-author of Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors, published by Wiley in 2016. Mr. Benello manages White River Partners, L.P., a private investment fund based in San Francisco, California, which he founded in 2000. White River Partners is a concentrated global value fund. He previously worked in the investment management division of PICO Holdings, Inc., an insurance holding company based in La Jolla, CA. Mr. Benello is also a seed investor in technology companies in Silicon Valley. Mr. Benello graduated with a B.A. in History from Tufts University in 1988, and received an M.A. in International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in 1992, where he was an Olin Fellow in Strategic Studies. Mr. Benello has lectured at investing seminars and conferences in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Benello served on the board of the ICA Group in Boston, Massachusetts. The ICA Group is a non-profit organization fostering employee ownership. Since 2014, he has served on the board of GiveSurf, whose mission is to provide surfing equipment to underprivileged youths around the world.