Guy Spier

Summary

I run the Aquamarine Fund which is an investment partnership closely modeled on the original Buffett Partnerships, investing primarily in equities. In 2014 I published a book titled, "The Education of a Value Investor" which has sold more than 50,000 copies in English and has been translated into German, Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Vietnamese amongst other languages. Investors in my fund include friends and family, high net worth individuals, their family offices, private banks investing on behalf of their clients and even some institutional investors and pension funds. One of my best learning experiences to date was my $650,000 lunch with Warren Buffett, on which Mohnish Pabrai and I successfully bid and won in 2007. Investors and business leaders that I admire include my father, Seth Klarman, Joel Greenblatt, Li Lu, John Mihaljevic, Thomas Edison, Mahatma Gandhi, Edward Shackleton, Marcus Aurelius, Anthony Robbins, Don Keough, Charlie Munger. My Investment process includes the using checklists - as was written up in Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto". Education I did a MBA at Harvard Business School (class of 1993). I did my undergraduate degree at Brasenose College, Oxford in PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) where I did some tutorials with David Cameron. I graduated in 1988 with a First Class Degree and the George Webb Medley Prize for the top performance in Economics. I serve on the boards of UN Watch, and of Swiss Friends of Oxford University. I also serve on the advisory boards of Horasis and World Minds. In the past, I served on the Alumni Board of the Harvard Business School, the Dakshana Foundation and Weizmann Science and Business Club . I have been a TEDx co-Host in Tel Aviv and in Zurich with Maya Elhalal - Levavi, Peter Hogenkamp and Tim Duhrkoop and Hugo Schotman. I am a current, or have been a past investor in: Alaska Milk, American Express, Care Ratings, Moodys, Mastercard, Weetabix, India Energy Exchange, Raffles Education Corporation, Anhuaguera, Devry, Berkshire Hathaway, Markel Insurance amongst others. For more about me go to http://www.aquamarinefund.com or to http://www.guyspier.com #futureofintelligentinvesting