John Heins co-founded Value Investor Media, Inc. in 2004 and since then has served as its President and as the Editor-in-Chief of Value Investor Insight and SuperInvestor Insight. In 2016, he took on an additional role as the C.T. Fitzpatrick Professor of Value Investing at the University of Alabama.

Prior to starting Value Investor Media, Mr. Heins was Senior Vice President and General Manager of America Online’s Personal Finance business, responsible for AOL’s largest and most profitable consumer-interest category, reaching 15 million unique users each month. Prior to AOL, Mr. Heins spent 15 years in the magazine industry, the last seven of which as President and Chief Executive Officer of Gruner+Jahr USA Publishing, Bertelsmann AG’s U.S. magazine subsidiary. During his tenure, G+J USA’s annual revenue grew four-fold, to $425 million, while operating profits more than quintupled. He joined Bertelsmann as Director of International Development for Gruner+Jahr’s international division, based in Paris, France.

Mr. Heins started in the magazine business at Forbes and served as a reporter and staff writer in both New York and Los Angeles. A generalist, he covered a wide variety of subjects, including banking, finance, corporate strategy, media and technology.

Mr. Heins 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.

Whitney Tilson is the co-founder and Chairman of Value Investor Media, Inc. and the founder of Kase Learning, which hosts investing seminars, bootcamps and conferences. Prior to founding Kase Learning, for nearly 18 years he ran Kase Capital Management, which managed value-oriented hedge funds and mutual funds.

Mr. Tilson in 2009 co-authored (with Glenn Tongue) More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times, and was also one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack, the definitive book on Charlie Munger. He was one of five investors named to SmartMoney’s Power 30 in 2006, has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Lou Dobbs Moneyline and Wall $treet Week, has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and has spoken widely on value investing and behavioral finance.

Prior to launching his investment-management career in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter studying the competitiveness of inner cities and inner-city-based companies nationwide. He and Professor Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, of which Mr. Tilson was Executive Director. He also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for-profit private equity fund that has raised nearly $500 million to invest in minority-owned and inner-city businesses.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Tilson was a founding member of Teach for America, the national teacher corps, and also spent two years as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

Mr. Tilson received an M.B.A. with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker Scholar (top 5% of class). He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, with a bachelor’s degree in Government.