Presenter

Michael Dever

Founder & CEP, Brandywine Asset Management, Inc.

Michael P. Dever is the founder (in 1982) and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management, the author of a best-selling investment book and a featured subject of three books. Brandywine has invested significant amounts over the past four decades in research to develop proprietary investment strategies and manage client assets pursuant to several successful investment programs. These include Brandywine’s Benchmark managed futures program, which averaged more than 20% annually over 8 years; Brandywine’s Symphony program, which outperformed the industry averages by 3% annually over 7 years; and Brandywine’s market neutral equity program, which under his tenure produced double digit annualized returns. All of Brandywine’s investment programs are characterized by performance that is completely uncorrelated to that of stocks, bonds and hedge funds. Mr. Dever has also been a great early identifier of investment talent, first allocating money to Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investments in 1985 and John W. Henry (now owner of the Boston Red Sox) shortly after meeting him in the early 1980s. He also served as the initial outside investor in other managers that went on to great success. As an internet entrepreneur, Mr. Dever founded and ran spree.com, which became the 7th most-trafficked internet commerce site by 1999. Among other pioneering accomplishments, Spree was the exclusive ecommerce partner for the PGA Tour. Mr. Dever led spree through a $13 million funding round (led by Patricof & Company) in 1999. Mr. Dever also co-founded Internetseer.com, which became the world’s largest web site monitoring company and is the co-inventor on a patent related to web site monitoring. He was instrumental in selling the company to Landmark Communications (then the owner of The Weather Channel) in 2007. Early in his career Mr. Dever set up a partnership that purchased, renovated, managed and profitably sold residential apartments in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Mr. Dever is a board member of the National Futures Association CPO/CTA Committee, holds the Certified Financial Planner® designation and has a B.S. in Business from West Chester University. Fun Facts: In four years as a high school pole vault coach, Mike produced three state medalists (two of which were his sons), including an All-American and the Pennsylvania all-time state record holder (17’-0”)Mike is an instrument-rated private pilot and also holds a Part 107 drone pilot licenseMike’s proudest accomplishment has been raising three great boys with his wife Kim, a nurse with Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaMitchell, 22, works full-time in electronicsMatthew, 21, is a senior at Penn State University who has earned a position with Citigroup in New York City after graduationCharley, 18, is a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland

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