About the Author

William Mitchell was a managing partner at hedge fund Strategy Capital before leaving in 2003 to write Spinoff & Reorg Profiles. His business articles have appeared in the New York Times and the L.A. Business Journal, and he has been a panel speaker at the Caltech Enterprise Forum.

Mr. Mitchell holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BS in engineering and applied science from Caltech, a BA in physics from Reed College, and has passed the NASD 65.

Mitchell is also designer of the Gemfinder web-based equity research tools for small investment partnerships.