Prior to creating Empire Financial Research, Whitney Tilson founded and ran Kase Capital Management, which managed three value-oriented hedge funds and two mutual funds.
Starting out of his bedroom with only $1 million, Tilson grew assets under management to nearly $200 million.
Tilson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in government in 1989.
After college, he helped Wendy Kopp launch Teach for America and then spent two years as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.
He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class and was named a Baker Scholar.
Prior to creating Empire Financial Research, Whitney Tilson founded and ran Kase Capital Management, which managed three value-oriented hedge funds and two mutual funds.
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