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The goal of the GIBI Investment Symposium is to enlighten, inspire, and inform attendees while raising funds for two exceptional charities. This premier investment event is fully underwritten by its co-founders, so that all donations go directly to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation.
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Speakers
The GIBI Investment Symposium is fortunate to have some of the world's most respected investors generously donate their time to share their best investment ideas and insights.
Andrew “Andy” Beal
CEO, Beal Bank
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Mr. Beal is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beal Financial Corporation, which includes two FDIC-insured banks, Beal Bank, based in Texas and founded in 1988, and Beal Bank USA, based in Nevada and founded in 2004.
Susan M. Byrne
Founder, Vice Chairman of the Board, Westwood Holdings Group, Inc.
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Susan M. Byrne is the Founder and Vice Chairman of Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. a registered investment advisor trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:WHG). In addition, Ms. Byrne served as the Company’s Chief Investment Officer from inception until 2011. She retired in June of 2015 and now serves as a consultant.
Founded in 1983, Westwood serves a variety of institutional clients, such as corporate pension funds, religious organizations, endowments and foundations. In addition, Westwood is the investment advisor to The WHG Funds, a family of open-ended mutual funds. Ms. Byrne serves on the Boards of Westwood Management and Westwood International Advisors (WIA), WHG subsidiaries and the Westwood Investment Funds plc (an Irish UCITS fund). Westwood Management currently manages over $21 billion in assets.
Ms. Byrne currently serves as Vice Chairman of the WHG Board as well as a Board Member of Westwood Trust, WHG’s subsidiary serving high net worth investors. Westwood Trust offers trust and investment services through the use of comingled funds and customized portfolios. She is a Trustee of the Dallas Mayor’s Grow South initiative to enhance economic activity in the southern sector of the city. She is a Trustee of The Dallas Museum of Art, where she serves as Treasurer. In addition, she also serves on their Executive, Audit and Investment committees. Ms. Byrne is a former board member of University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), City of Dallas Employees Retirement Fund, The Governor’s Business Council, The Dallas Citizens Council, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas Foundation (where she served as chairman of their Investment Committee) and former Trustee of Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Ms. Byrne is a member of both the New York and Dallas Societies of Securities Analysts. She has been featured on CNBC and in numerous financial publications such as; Barrons, Smart Money, Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s and Fortune. Ms. Byrne has over forty-five years of Wall Street, portfolio management and plan sponsor experience.
Caroline Cooley
Partner, Crestline Investors, Inc.
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Ms. Cooley is Chief Investment Officer of Crestline's Hedge Fund Solutions business and leads the Oversight Committee for Crestline Summit Equity Alpha fund. She also serves on the firm's Investment and Executive Committees. Ms. Cooley has over 33 years of experience in the alternative investment industry as a portfolio manager, risk manager and trader. Ms. Cooley has led the Hedge Fund Solutions team at Crestline, overseeing manager selection and portfolio management, since joining the firm in 1998. Before joining Crestline, Ms. Cooley was a derivatives trader and risk manager with Taylor and Company, an investment firm associated with the Bass Family of Fort Worth, TX. Ms. Cooley began her career in the investment industry at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (later merged into JP Morgan) in New York and Chicago after receiving her B.A. in Economics from The College of William and Mary in 1983. Ms. Cooley serves on the Advisory Board of Texas Wall Street Women and is the Vice-Chair of the Investment Advisory Committee of Texas Employee Retirement System.
Crestline Investors, Inc., founded in 1997 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, is an institutional alternative investment management firm with approximately $9 billion of assets under management. Crestline specializes in credit and opportunistic investments, as well as hedge fund and beta solutions. In addition to its Fort Worth, Texas headquarters, Crestline maintains affiliate offices in New York City, Chicago, London, Toronto and Tokyo.
David Einhorn
President, Greenlight Capital, Inc.
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David Einhorn is president of Greenlight Capital, Inc., which he co-founded in January 1996. Greenlight Capital is a value-oriented investment advisor whose goal is to achieve high absolute rates of return while minimizing the risk of capital loss.
Greenlight’s investment philosophy is to combine the analytical discipline of determining fair value with a practical understanding of markets. The firm believes that an investment approach that emphasizes intrinsic value will achieve consistent absolute investment returns and safeguard capital regardless of market conditions.
Prior to founding Greenlight Capital, Inc., David worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) as an analyst in the Investment Banking Group. After DLJ, Mr. Einhorn joined Siegler, Collery & Co., a buyout and investment management firm, as an investment analyst.
David is Chairman of the Board of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLRE) and Chairman of the Board of Green Brick Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:GRBK). He is the author of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story, published in May 2008.
David graduated summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, where he earned a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mario J. Gabelli
Chairman and CEO, GAMCO Investors, Inc.
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Mario J. Gabelli is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GAMCO Investors, Inc. and LICT Corp.
Mr. Gabelli is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University and holds an MBA degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Roger Williams University and Fordham University.
Mr. Gabelli is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia University Graduate School of Business, the Board of Trustees of Boston College and the Board of Trustees of Roger Williams University.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American-Italian Cancer Foundation and the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture. He is a Trustee of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States and the E. L. Wiegand Foundation. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York.
Mr. Gabelli was Morningstar’s Portfolio Manager of the Year (1997) and Institutional Investor’s Money Manager of the Year (2011) and is a member of Barron’s Financial Magazine’s All Star Century Team.
Lisa W. Hess
President and Managing Partner, SkyTop Capital Management
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Lisa Hess is President and Managing Partner of SkyTop Capital Management, an opportunistic hedge fund focused on industries and companies undergoing a transformation. She has 38 years of experience on Wall Street.
From 2002 to 2008, Lisa was the Chief Investment Officer of Loews Corporation, responsible for managing $50 billion in assets, including fixed income, equities, and alternatives. Prior to her career at Loews, Ms. Hess was a Founding Partner of Zesiger Capital Group, a diversified money manager dedicated to investing across all asset classes. She is a Trustee of TIAA and serves on the Board of Directors of Radian Group, Inc. Professional honors include serving on the United States Debt Advisory Committee from 1996 to 2002 and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Investors Advisory Committee.
From 2002 to 2010, Ms. Hess wrote a regular column for Forbes entitled “Absolute Return.” She received her MBA from The University of Chicago and her A.B. from Harvard University.
Ray Nixon, Jr.
Executive Director, Large Cap Value Equity Portfolio Manager, Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC
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Ray Nixon is the Executive Director and a Portfolio Manager at Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC. Barrow Hanley, founded in 1979, is one of the largest value-oriented investment managers of institutional assets in the U.S. The approximately ninety billion dollar firm provides value-oriented investment strategies to institutional investors, mutual funds, and family offices on five continents.
Mr. Nixon joined BHMS in 1994 from Smith Barney, Inc., where he was a member of the firm's Investment Policy Committee and served as their lead institutional stockbroker for the Southwest. During his thirty-seven year investment career, he also served as a research analyst for the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Mr. Nixon holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Texas.
Mr. Nixon is a Trustee of the UT Southwestern Foundation and a member of the McCombs School of Business Advisory Council. He is a current board member of East West Ministries and the Salvation Army. Moreover, he chairs the investment committee of the Texas Health Resources four billion dollar endowment. He was formerly on the Board of Directors and the Strategic Advisory Board of the CFA Society of Dallas-Fort Worth. In 2015, Mr. Nixon was inducted into the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Hall of Fame. Recently, Mr. Nixon has joined the UTIMCO board, a thirty-five billion dollar endowment for the University of Texas.
T. Boone Pickens
Founder and CEO, BP Capital
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T. Boone Pickens is one of the nation’s most successful businessmen, first building one of the nation’s largest independent oil companies, Mesa Petroleum, and later reinventing himself in his 70s as one of the most successful investment fund operators with BP Capital. In July 2008, Boone launched the Pickens Plan (www.PickensPlan.com), a $100 million grass-roots campaign aimed at reducing this country’s crippling addiction to OPEC oil.
Boone’s 2008 book, The First Billion is the Hardest, detailed what America must do to win back its energy independence. He is also aggressively pursuing a wide range of other energy sector business interests.
CNBC has dubbed him “Oracle of Oil” for his uncanny knack of predicting oil price movements. At a time in life when many businessmen are concentrating on the golf course and ship cruises, he remains a dynamic force in his industry, as evidenced by his fellow Dallas chief executives selecting him as DCEO magazine’s 2013 CEO of the Year. His many professional honors include membership in the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, the Texas Business Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. In 1998, the Oil & Gas Investor listed him as one of the “100 Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century.” During the span of his career, Pickens has given away more than $1 billion to philanthropic causes. He is among the most generous university benefactors of all time, having contributed more than $500 million to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, divided evenly between academics and athletics.
If you want to follow Boone Pickens on Twitter, you can do so @boonepickens.
Michael F. Price
President of The Price Family Foundation, Inc.; Managing Member of MFP Investors LLC
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Michael F. Price earned his bachelor’s degree in 1973 from the University of Oklahoma. In 1999 the University of Oklahoma honored him with a Doctor of Humane Letters.
Michael F. Price was Chairman of the Board of Franklin Mutual Advisers and Franklin Mutual Series Fund. He had been associated with both entities and their predecessor organizations since 1975. At that time the adviser was known as Heine Securities Corp. and the fund was Mutual Shares Fund. Michael was Vice President of the fund from 1975 until 1986. From 1986 until November 1, 1998 he was CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of the adviser and the fund, which came to be known as Mutual Series Fund.
Presently, Michael is the President of The Price Family Foundation, Inc.; Managing Member of MFP Investors LLC; and Managing Partner of MFP Partners, L.P. He also serves as a Director of Liquidnet Holdings, an Investment Advisory Council Member to the Florida State Board of Administration and on Boards for The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
William W. Priest, CFA
CEO, Co-CIO and Portfolio Manager, Epoch Investment Partners, Inc.
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Bill is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Epoch Investment Partners, a long-only equity management firm located in New York City. Founded in 2004 with just over $600 million in assets, the firm manages approximately $50 billion for clients all over the world.
He is a portfolio manager for Epoch’s global equity investment strategies and leads the Investment Policy Group, a forum for analyzing broader secular and cyclical trends that Epoch believes will influence investment opportunities. Prior to co-founding Epoch in 2004 with three partners, Bill was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Asset Management Americas and CEO and portfolio manager of its predecessor firm BEA Associates, which he co-founded in 1972.
Bill is the author of over 65 white papers and several published articles and papers on investing and finance, including three books, The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA; Free Cash Flow and Shareholder Yield: New Priorities for the Global Investor; and most recently, Winning at Active Management: The Essential Roles of Culture, Philosophy and Technology published by Wiley.
He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, is a former CPA and a graduate of Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Barron's Roundtable.
A recent quote about his most recent book follows:
"In this highly accessible book, Bill Priest and his co-authors do a masterful job demonstrating the critical components of success for any investment manager: maintaining the right culture, developing a rigorous and effective investment philosophy, and embracing technologies that can capture greater value from fundamental insights. Investors interested in improving their results will benefit from the five decades of wisdom and experience that are so engagingly captured here, and come away with profound insights about the active/passive debate, how both culture and technology are underappreciated drivers of success, and the future of investing. Bill’s highly successful career as an investor, innovator and industry leader give this work tremendous depth and perspective — I strongly recommend it."
- Blake Grossman, Managing Partner, CHJ Capital Management;
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Financial Engines; former Chief Executive Officer, Barclays Global Investors
Gretchen Morgenson (Moderator)
Assistant Business and Financial Editor, The New York Times
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Ms. Morgenson has been Assistant Business and Financial Editor and a Columnist at The New York Times since 1998. She covers the world financial markets and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street. In 2009, Ms. Morgenson won a Gerald Loeb Award in the “Beat Writing” category in her coverage of Wall Street. This followed her Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial commentary in 2002 and the American University School of Communication’s Annual Journalism Award for excellence in personal finance reporting in 2000.
Ms. Morgenson began her career at Vogue magazine as an Assistant Editor in 1976. By the time she left the magazine in 1981, she was a writer and financial columnist. She has filled the roles of Assistant Managing Editor and Investigative Business Writer and Editor at Forbes magazine, Press Secretary for the Forbes for President Campaign, Executive Editor for Worth magazine, Staff Writer at Money magazine, and Stockbroker for Dean Witter Reynolds in New York from 1981 to 1984. Ms. Morgenson received a B.A. degree in English and History from Saint Olaf College. She is co-author of The New York Times bestseller Reckless Endangerment, published by Times Books in May 2011.
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$100,000 Angel Investor
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$15,000 Lead Investor
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$6,000 Friends & Family
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Donor Information must be submitted by September 30, 2016 to receive an Underwriter Party invitation and ensure program listing.
Attendee Information must be submitted by October 7, 2016 to ensure printed name tags for attendees.
Attendee Information must be submitted by October 7, 2016 to ensure printed name tags for attendees.
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