Author Background:
With a background in engineering, construction, publishing and journalism, Sam founded Centratel in 1984. He resides in Bend, Oregon, which fits with his outside interest of mountaneering, skiing, cycling, reading, and traveling. Other business enterprises include educational products, software, and consulting. Sam is founder and director of Kashmir Family Aid, a non profit aiding surviving school children of the 2005 Pakistan and Kashmir earthquake.
Author Background:
Howard Marks is an American investor and writer. After working in senior positions at Citibank early in his career, Marks joined TCW in 1985 and created and led the High Yield, Convertible Securities and Distressed Debt groups. In 1995, he left TCW and co-founded Oaktree Capital Management. In the 2011 Forbes rankings of the wealthiest Americans, Marks was ranked the #273 richest in the United States, with a net worth of $1.5 billion.
He is known in the investment community for his “Oaktree memos” to clients which detail investment strategies and insight into the economy, and in 2011 he published the book The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor.
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Patrick O’Shaughnessy, CFA is a Principal and Portfolio Manager at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). Patrick is the author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a Fortune and is a contributing author to the fourth edition of What Works on Wall Street. Patrick’s is an expert in investment strategy research and investor behavior and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.
Author Background:
By his 35th birthday, Mike Michalowicz (pronounced mi-’kal-o-wits) had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor… and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies.
Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.”