J. Carlo Cannell - Cannell Capital LLC

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Having started Cannell Capital in 1992 with $600,000 as a sole partnership, Carlo Cannell sent $488 million back to investors over several years starting in 2004. A liberal arts major (Princeton), he is a third generation investment manager whose style is malleable – he is a fox, not a hedge hog.back

Articles

Chicago Tribune
J. Carlo Cannell: Investor set for proxy fight with Niles-based MFRI

Chicagotribune.com - 04.06.09
If it's open season on corporate executives, J. Carlo Cannell is a man for the times, and sleepy MFRI Inc. his unlikely target. Listening to the California hedge-fund activist, you might think he's talking about the notorious AIG instead of this quiet manufacturer of filters and piping based in the lunch-bucket suburb of Niles. On the surface, MFRI looks plenty solid, operating profitably in an attractive corner of the industrial marketplace.

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ValueVision Media Inc. (NASDAQ:VVTV)

Greenbacked - 12.10.08
The company is currently conducting an auction expected to close in February 2009. The auction has uncovered a number of interested bidders, including GE Capital Equity Investments (most recent 13D filing here), which owns 13.7% of the company. Activist investor Carlo Cannell of Cannell Capital LLC has disclosed an interest in the company and has also sent a number of entertaining letters to the CEO (which we’ve reproduced below).