About the Authors

John Heins is the cofounder and President of Value Investor Media, Inc., and Editor-in-Chief of Value Investor Insight and SuperInvestor Insight. He is responsible for day-to-day operations of Value Investor Media, a media company founded in 2004 to provide investing ideas and insight to sophisticated professional and individual investors.

Previously, Mr. Heins was President and Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, Bertelsmann AG's U.S. magazine subsidiary, Senior Vice President and General Manager of America Online's Personal Finance business, and a reporter and staff writer for Forbes magazine. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a bachelor's degree in Economics and also holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Whitney Tilson is the cofounder of hedge funds Kase Capital, T2 Partners and Tilson Capital Partners, the Tilson Mutual Funds, Value Investor Media, Inc., and the Value Investing Congress.

Mr. Tilson coauthored the book, More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times, has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool, and TheStreet.com, and was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack, the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger. He is a CNBC Contributor, was featured in a 2008 60 Minutes segment about the housing crisis that won an Emmy, was one of five investors included in SmartMoney's 2006 “Power 30,” and was named by Institutional Investor in 2007 as one of “20 Rising Stars.”

Mr. Tilson was a founding member of Teach for America and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in Government.