Phillip Goldstein (investor)

Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945. He then returned to the East Coast to pursue a master's degree in engineering from the City College of New York, which he completed in 1968. ==Career==

Goldstein spent the first 25 years of his career as a civil engineer for the City of New York, working on projects such as the maintenance and improvement of the Brooklyn Bridge's roadway. Andrew Dakos and Rajeev Das later joined as partners. with a particular emphasis on liquidity events such as asset sales. and later renamed it Special Opportunities Fund (NYSE: SPE). Special Opportunities Fund is now managed by Bulldog Investors, along with a group of private funds. Goldstein and Bulldog Investors remain value-centric, employing a variety of value-oriented investing strategies, and regularly investing in closed-end mutual funds when there is a significant gap between the fund's market value and its net asset value (NAV), or liquidation value. ==Board seats==

Goldstein is a member of the board of directors of Imperial Holdings (), the Mexico Equity and Income Fund (), ASA Ltd. (), the Special Opportunities Fund () and MVC Capital (). ==References==