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Barnett, Warren
Warren Barnett is Founder and President of Barnett & Company. He graduated from The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He received his B.S. in accounting from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and his MBA in finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Mr. Barnett was associated with the investment banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Company and the investment counseling firm of Davidge & Company in Washington before returning to Chattanooga to accept a position in the trust department of a local bank. Perceiving the local need for the type of firms with which he was associated in Washington, he established Barnett & Company in 1983. Mr. Barnett received the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1986. Profile
TWST: Tell us a little about Barnett & Company.

Mr. Barnett: My decision to start my own firm 30 years ago was because I didn’t believe that the economies of scale of money