John Reese, founder of Validea.com, is the author of The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies and a regular columnist for RealMoney.com and Forbes.com. He is also the founder of Validea Capital Management, a money management firm for high net worth individuals and institutions, and he advises two Canada-based mutual funds (Omega Consensus American & International Equity Funds). John holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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