John Dorfman is chairman of Dorfman Value Investments LLC in Boston, Massachusetts, an investment management firm he founded in 1999. The firm manages accounts for a few dozen individuals and families, a New York financial institution, a Virginia corporation and an Ireland family office.

Dorfman was a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal in 1986-1997, executive editor of Consumer Reports in 1984-1986, and an associate editor at Forbes in 1982-1984. Currently, his stock market column appears in Forbes.com, GuruFocus.com, the Las Vegas Review Journal, the Omaha World Herald, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and the Virginian Pilot.

Dorfman worked for Dreman Value Management in 1997 through March 2002, and considers David Dreman his mentor and a formative influence. He was a Senior Vice President at Dreman from September 1997 through 2000, and a Managing Director in 2001-2002.

Dorfman has written nine books, including Family Investment Guide (Atheneum, 1981) and The Stock Market Directory (Doubleday, 1982).

He was born on April 19, 1947 in Chicago. He lives in Newton, Mass., with his wife Katharine Davidge and their three children.

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