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Joel Greenblatt serves as Managing Principal and Co-Chief Investment
Officer of Gotham Asset Management, the successor to Gotham Capital, an
investment firm he founded in 1985. Since 1996, he has been a professor
on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School where he teaches
“Value and Special Situation Investing.” Mr. Greenblatt is a director of Pzena Investment Management, Inc., a global investment management firm.
He formerly served on the Investment Boards of the University of Pennsylvania and the UJA Federation. Mr. Greenblatt is the author of You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Simon & Schuster, 1997), The Little Book that Beats the Market (Wiley, 2005), The Little Book that Still Beats the Market (Wiley, 2010), and The Big Secret for the Small Investor (Random House, 2011). He is the Former Chairman of the Board (1994-1995) of Alliant Techsystems, a NYSE-listed aerospace and defense contractor. He holds a BS (1979), summa cum laude, and an MBA (1980) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Since the formation of Oaktree in 1995, Mr. Marks has been responsible for ensuring the firm’s adherence to its core investment philosophy; communicating closely with clients concerning products and strategies; and contributing his experience to big-picture decisions relating to investments and corporate direction. From 1985 until 1995, Mr. Marks led the groups at The TCW Group, Inc. that were responsible for investments in distressed debt, high yield bonds, and convertible securities.
He was also Chief Investment Officer for Domestic Fixed Income at TCW. Previously, Mr. Marks was with Citicorp Investment Management for 16 years, where from 1978 to 1985 he was Vice President and senior portfolio manager in charge of convertible and high yield securities. Between 1969 and 1978, he was an equity research analyst and, subsequently, Citicorp’s Director of Research. Mr. Marks holds a B.S.Ec. degree cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance and an M.B.A. in accounting and marketing from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago, where he received the George Hay Brown Prize. He is a CFA® charterholder. Mr. Marks is a Trustee and Chairman of the Investment Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Royal Drawing School and is Professor of Practice at King’s Business School (both in London). He serves on the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Council and the Advisory Board of Duke Kunshan University. He is an Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the Investment Board.
John Heins is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the investment newsletter Value Investor Insight and also the Fitzpatrick Endowed Professor of Value Investing at the University of Alabama. Having started his career as a business journalist for Forbes magazine, John shifted gears to the business side of magazines, eventually serving for seven years as the President and CEO of Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, which during his tenure grew its annual revenue four-fold, to $425 million, while operating profits more than quintupled.
He co-founded Value Investor Media, Inc. in 2004 and in 2016 doubled down on value investing in joining the University of Alabama to create its value-investing program. John graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and received an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
C.T. Fitzpatrick founded Vulcan Value Partners in 2007. As Chief Investment Officer and Equity Analyst, Mr. Fitzpatrick leads a research team responsible for investing over $20 billion for a global client base. Since inception, three of Vulcan’s five strategies are ranked in the top 1% of managers in their respective categories, and the other two strategies are in the top 7%.1 As Chief Executive Officer he leads an organization recognized by Pensions & Investments as the Best Place to Work in Money Management for the third consecutive year.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is a board member of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, serves on the President’s Cabinet for the University of Alabama Board of Visitors, and founded the C.T. and Kelley Fitzpatrick Center for Value Investing at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. He is a member of the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) National Council, serves as Co-Chair of the Alabama Council of AEI, and is a member of the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF). Mr. Fitzpatrick founded Bridge Builders Alabama whose mission is to develop high school students as future leaders who will lay aside individual, social, economic, and cultural differences and work for the benefit of all. Mr. Fitzpatrick enjoys speaking to conference audiences and has participated in Value Invest London, Value Invest New York, Columbia Student Investment Management Associate Conference, and the University of Alabama Capstone Student Investment Conference. Prior to founding Vulcan Value Partners, Mr. Fitzpatrick worked as a principal and portfolio manager at Southeastern Asset Management. Mr. Fitzpatrick earned an MBA in Finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He also has a BS in Corporate Finance and a Minor in English from the University of Alabama.
It’s absolutely fantastic, the quality of speakers is genuinely world class. It’s very much the Rolls-Royce of the investor conference market.
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