Soren Aandahl is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Blue Orca Capital, which he launched in 2018 to focus on global short investments. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Aandahl’s firms have been consistently ranked amongst the top activist short sellers in the world, measured by performance and overall market impact.  Mr. Aandahl has authored dozens of short reports alerting investors to listed companies which have materially misrepresented financial performance, defrauded the capital markets, misappropriated money raised from investors or were otherwise terminally flawed. 

Mr. Aandahl teaches a seminar at the University of Texas business school entitled Fraud and Folly in Financial Markets, which explores some of the most famous historical and current case studies of stock fraud, asset bubbles and investor delusion.  Mr. Aandahl is also regularly featured in the Financial Times, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal on various topics including corporate governance, financial fraud and short selling. 

Mr. Aandahl has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Chicago, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.