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Guy Spier

Owner & CEO of Aquamarine Capital

Guy Spier
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Authors, Business, Business Leadership, Consulting, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Executive Leadership, Finance, Innovation, Leadership, TED
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Guy Spier Biography

Guy Spier is a Zurich based investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in "the Checklist Manifesto," by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.

Spier manages the Aquamarine Fund, an investment partnership inspired by, and styled after Warren Buffett's 1950s investment partnerships. He is also an occasional financial commentator in the media. Spier serves as the chair and founder of the Weizmann Science and Business Club. He is a member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Board and also serves on advisory boards of Value Conferences; and of Zurich Minds.

Guy Spier and former President of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk in discussion at the Horasis 2013 Annual Meeting From 2007 to 2009, Spier served on the Advisory Board of the Dakshana Foundation. In spring 2010, Spier with Peter Hogenkamp and Tim Dührkoop co-founded TEDxZurich.

In 2003, Spier became the target, along with David Einhorn, Bill Ackman, and Whitney Tilson, of investigations by Eliot Spitzer, then the New York Attorney General, as well as by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding short sales of Farmer Mac, MBIA corp and Allied Capital. The melt down of these companies during the late-2000s financial crisis vindicated their short thesis and was the subject of books by Ackman and Einhorn.

Spier was educated at City of London Freemen's School. From 1988 - 1990, Spier worked with David Pitt-Watson at Braxton Associates, which later became Deloitte Consulting. In 1991, He interned at the European Commission in Brussels. He completed his MBA at the Harvard Business School, class of 1993 with Mark Pincus and Chris Hohn. He holds a First Class degree in PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from Oxford University where he studied at Brasenose College.

Spier is related to the Lazard banking family through his great great grandmother, Johanna Lazard. He is also a former resident of Tuxedo Park, New York, the village constructed by Pierre Lorillard in the late 1800s, where he lived in the Bruce Price Cottage. He is a member of Entrepreneurs' Organization and of the Young Presidents Organization.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/21/2024.

Guy Spier Videos

  • Mohnish Pabrai and Guy Spier | Talks at Google
    Mohnish Pabrai and Guy Spier | Talks at Google
  • Guy Spier: The Education of a Value Investor - Authors@Google ...
    Guy Spier: The Education of a Value Investor - Authors@Google ...
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Guy Spier Books

  • The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
    The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

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