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Biography & Background
About Gregory Blotnick
Gregory Blotnick is a Florida-based investor. His 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. Gregory 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 portfolio management and investor psychology.
Investing Career
Blotnick’s hedge fund career started in 2009, when he started covering the Consumer & Retail sector for the next decade at funds of varying investment styles.
In 2019, he founded Brattle Street Capital LLC, an investment firm focused on long and short opportunities within small and mid-cap Consumer equities. Blotnick’s most recent experience involves firms with a shorter-term market-neutral focus, including Citadel and Schonfeld.
Prior to that, Blotnick was at North Elm Capital, a fund with a cross-capital structure “credit approach to equity” focus, a highly-concentrated portfolio and multi-year holding periods. His experience also includes analyst duties at Exis Capital and Doubloon Capital.
Writing & Publications
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. His Twitter handle, @brattlestcap, gained recognition as a “must-follow” and was named a top influential account by Business Insider and Forbes.
Over the past decade, his written work has been featured in publications including Forbes, Fortune, Kiplinger, NewsMax, MarketWatch, CFA Institute, and many others. His work regularly explores applied behavioral finance, highlighting the psychological and emotional biases that can negatively affect decision-making both in investing and business leadership.
Memoir & Ongoing Work
Blotnick’s debut memoir, Blind Spots: A Riches to Rags Story, is a personal account of failure, introspection, and the psychological traps that even experienced professionals fall into. 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.
Today, Blotnick continues to write and speak on topics at the intersection of investing, psychology, and ethics, emphasizing that unchecked bias, ego, and overconfidence can undermine even the best-educated and highest-achieving individual. His newest book, Essays: De Rerum Natura, was published on August 20th.
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