Mr. Chanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates, a firm he founded in 1985. Throughout his career, Mr. Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; among them,
Baldwin-United, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco and Tyco International. His most celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron’s as“the market call of the decade.”
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