Daniel A. D’Aniello

Founding Partner and ManagingDirector of The Carlyle Group

Mr. D’Aniello is a FoundingPartner and Managing Director of Carlyle and is based in Washington, DC. 

Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987,he was Vice President for Finance and Development at Marriott Corporation wherehe was responsible for the valuation of major corporate mergers, acquisitions,divestitures, debt and equity offerings, and project financings. Before joiningMarriott, Mr. D’Aniello was a financial officer at PepsiCo and TWA. 

Mr. D’Aniello is a 1968 magna cumlaude graduate of Syracuse University, where he was a member of Beta GammaSigma, and a 1974 graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was aTeagle Foundation Fellow.

Mr. D’Aniello is on the Board ofDirectors of  Dunkin’ Brands GroupHoldings, Inc., The Council for United States and Italy, the Lumen Institute,the Corporate Advisory Council to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management,and the Board of Trustees of Syracuse University.   He is also a former Chairman and/or Directorof several public and private companies in which Carlyle has had significantinvestments. 

Whitney Tilson

Founder of T2 Partners LLC and TilsonMutual Funds

Whitney Tilson is the founder andManaging Partner of T2 Partners LLC and the Tilson Mutual Funds.  T

heformer (www.T2PartnersLLC.com)manages three value-oriented private investment partnerships, T2 AccreditedFund, Tilson Offshore Fund and T2 Qualified Fund, while the latter is comprisedof two value-based mutual funds, Tilson Focus Fund and Tilson Dividend Fund (www.tilsonmutualfunds.com). 

Mr. Tilson is also theco-founder, Chairman and co-Editor-in-Chief of Value Investor Insight (www.valueinvestorinsight.com),an investment newsletter, and is the co-founder and Chairman of the Value Investing Congress (www.valueinvestingcongress.com),a biannual investment conference in New York City and Los Angeles.

Mr. Tilson writes aregular column on value investing for the Financial Times and Kiplinger’s,has written for the Motley Fool and TheStreet.com, was one of the authors ofPoor Charlie’s Almanack, the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway ViceChairman Charlie Munger, and teaches financial statement analysis and businessvaluation for the Dickie Group.  He wasone of five investors included in SmartMoney’sPower 30, was named by InstitutionalInvestor as one of 20 Rising Stars, has appeared dozens of times on CNBC,Bloomberg TV, Fox Business Network, Lou Dobbs Moneyline and Wall$treet Week, was on the cover of the July 2007 Kiplinger’s, has been profiled by the Wall Street Journaland the Washington Post, andhas spoken widely on value investing and behavioral finance.  He served on the Board of Directors of Cutter& Buck, a public company that designs and markets upscale sportswear fortwo years until the company was sold in early 2007.

Prior to launching his investmentcareer in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard BusinessSchool Professor Michael E. Porter studying the competitiveness of inner citiesand inner-city-based companies nationwide.  He and Professor Porter founded the Initiativefor a Competitive Inner City, of which Mr. Tilson was Executive Director.  Mr. Tilson also led the effort to create ICVPartners, a national for-profit private equity fund focused on minority-ownedand inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million.  Before business school, Mr. Tilson was afounding member of Teach for America, the national teacher corps, and thenspent two years as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

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

Mr. Tilson’s parents are botheducators and he spent much of his childhood in Tanzania and Nicaragua.  Consequently, Mr. Tilson is involved with anumber of charities focused on education reform and Africa.  For his philanthropic work, he received the2008 John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award from the Harvard Business SchoolClub of Greater New York.  He is Chairmanof the Manhattan chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization.  Mr. Tilson lives in Manhattan with his wifeand three daughters.

Watch Whitney Tilson's 60 Minutes Interview from 12/12/08

Dennis Gartman

Editor andPublisher of The Gartman Letter

Dennis Gartman, the editor and publisherof the Gartman Letter,  has been in the markets since 1974. Born in Akron,Ohio, Mr. Gartman received his BA from the University of Akron and MA from NorthCarolina State University.  After finishing his graduate work in the mid1970s, he worked as an economist for Cotton, Inc. analyzing cottonsupply/demand in the US textile industry.  From there he went to NCNBwhere he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments.

In 1977, Mr. Gartman became theChief Financial Futures Analyst for A.G. Becker and Company in Chicago, wherehe also served as an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade, tradingin treasury bond, treasury note and GNMA futures contracts. In 1985, Mr.Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for theVirginia National Bank, and in 1987 began producing The Gartman Letter on afull-time basis. He continues to do so to this day.

James W. Dean, Jr

Dean of UNC’s Kenan-FlaglerBusiness School

James W. Dean Jr. isthe dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler. He also is a professor of organizationalbehavior and a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar.  Leadership, organizational change, strategicdecision making, international management, and organizational performanceimprovement are the focus of his research, teaching and consulting.

Dr. Dean servedin the top academic position, senior associate dean for academic affairs,at UNC Kenan-Flagler from July 1, 2007-July 31, 2008. He served as associatedean of Executive Development from July 1, 2002-June 30, 2007, and associatedean of the MBA Program from 1998-2002.

As associate dean forExecutive Development, he increased the number and global reach of UNC’snon-degree programs, which are ranked among the world’s best. During histenure, revenues for the programs increased by nearly 60 percent. UNCKenan-Flagler is especially well known for its custom-designed programs forsuch organizations as ExxonMobil, the United States Navy, Duke Energy, Ciscoand Nucor.

As associate dean ofthe MBA Program, Dr. Dean led an innovative re-design of the curriculum,created corporate advisory boards and developed a strong team of professionalsto guide admissions, student services and career services. As a result, thequality of the MBA class, the curriculum and the quality and number ofcompanies recruiting rose significantly.

He has participated inresearch, teaching and/or consulting projects with many companies, includingALCOA, Boeing, Corning, DuPont, ExxonMobil, GE, Honeywell and the U.S. Navy.

Dr. Dean has publishedhis research in many of the top academic and business journals, including the Academyof Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, HarvardBusiness Review, Organization Science and StrategicManagement Journal.

He served as programdirector of the National Science Foundation research program, Transformationsto Quality Organizations, which was jointly sponsored by the government and theprivate sector. He served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige NationalQuality Award for six years.

He earned his PhD andmaster’s degrees in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon University. Heearned his BA from The Catholic University.