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Michael Messner

Professor of the Practice; Co-CEO & Portfolio Manager, Seminole Management Company, Inc. (Retired)

michael.messner@scheller.gatech.edu

917-709-9663

Academic Areas: Finance

Functional Areas: Finance and Technology

Office: 4208

Biography

Michael G. Messner is a Co-Founder of Seminole Management Co, Inc., an equity hedge fund, and has been Co-CEO since 1995. As the Chief Investment Officer Mike has successfully steered Seminole through both bull and bear markets, focusing on capital preservation during downturns. Since inception through August 2018, Seminole had gross annualized return of 19.5% before fees, including a +1.8% gross return in 2008 when the S&P 500 was down 37%. He led Seminole to positive gross returns in 21 out of 23 years. Seminole peak assets totaled over $3 billion.

Through their family’s Speedwell Foundation, he and his wife, Jenny, have been involved in various philanthropic efforts nationwide and for Charleston and Atlanta focused on urban parks and education.

Mike teaches Equity Investing at Scheller, Infrastructure Finance in Civil Engineering, oversees a VIP project, Equity Research Boutique.

Mr. Messner received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976. He attended graduate school at M.I.T. and received an M.S. in 1980. Mr. Messner is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Education

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1975
B.S. Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1976
M.S., M.I.T., 1980