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Biography & Background
About Gregory Blotnick
Biography & Background
Gregory Blotnick is a Florida-based investor. Blotnick’s story begins in 1986, where he was born at NYU Hospital in Manhattan. He was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated from Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in 2005. Blotnick went on to earn a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University in 2009, became a CFA Charterholder in 2012, and completed his MBA at Columbia Business School in 2014, where his academic interests began heavily gravitating toward equity research.
Blotnick’s career as a research analyst spans back to 2009, when he began covering the Consumer & Retail sector. His experience spans across firms with varying investment styles, from shorter-term market-neutral strategies to funds with cross-capital structure mandates. He remains actively involved in the Consumer & Retail industry as an investor and operator.
Blotnick is a long-time writer and contributor to financial media. His writing career started in 2012 under the pseudonym Brattle Street Capital, named after the street where he grew up in Cambridge. Over the past decade, his written work has been featured in major financial media outlets including Forbes and Fortune. Blotnick’s debut memoir, Blind Spots: A Riches to Rags Story, is a personal account of failure and introspection, a cautionary tale of what happens when burning the boats goes wrong. The book has been praised for its honesty and insight by editorial outlets including Kirkus Reviews, The US Review of Books, and Manhattan Book Review. His newest book, Essays: De Rerum Natura, was published on August 20th.
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