Dear HBS alumnus,

We are pleased to announce a new event this month, a breakfast with Whitney Tilson (MBA 94), on Friday 26th, June 2009. Mr. Tilson has done a great deal of work on the housing crisis and overall credit crunch, which led him to write a book that has just been released, "More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times".  It's been getting a lot of favorable attention and is currently the #1 investments book on Amazon.com.

Date: Friday, June 26th
Time: 8:00am - 10:00am
Place: Cafe Paris 6, Rua Haddock Lobo, 1240 - São Paulo
Speaker: Mr. Whitney Tilson
Cost: R$ 30. Payment is due at the restaurant.

Presence: Given that we have to confirm the number of participants upfront to the restaurant, cancellations will be accepted with no charge until noon, June 25th.

Confirm your presence by e-mail webmaster@hbsbrazil.org.

Mr. Tilson is the founder and Managing Partner of T2 Partners LLC and the Tilson Mutual Funds. He is also the co-founder, Chairman and co-Editor-in-Chief of Value Investor Insight, an investment newsletter, and is the co-founder and Chairman of the Value Investing Congress.

Mr. Tilson writes a regular column on value investing for the Financial Times and Kiplinger's, was one of five investors included in SmartMoney’s Power 30 and was named by Institutional Investor as one of 20 Rising Stars. He served on the Board of Directors of Cutter & Buck, a public company that designs and markets upscale sportswear for two years until the company was sold in early 2007.

Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. 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. Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICV Partners, a national for-profit private equity fund focused on minority-owned and inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million.

Before business school, Mr. Tilson was a founding member of Teach for America, the national teacher corps, and then spent two years as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

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

We look forward to seeing you on Friday 26th, June.

James Sinclair
President
Harvard Business School Club of Brazil