Paul Johnson

Paul is the Executive Director of the Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis at Fordham University. In his role, Paul leads the Center’s mission as a premier University-based Center for the art and practice of fundamental investing. Paul has been an Adjunct Professor at the Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University since 2015, where he teaches Value Investing. Paul received the Gabelli School of Business graduate-level Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence in May 2017 and the Adjunct Faculty Dean’s Award for Impact in May 2021. Paul also has taught courses in Digital Currency and Blockchain. He is the founding partner and investment manager of Nicusa Capital Partners, a private investment partnership that he started in 2003. As an investor, he has invested in virtually all sectors of the economy.

Prior to founding Nicusa, Johnson was a managing director in the equity research department of Robertson Stephens. He analyzed all sectors of the technology industry in his 20 years as a sell-side research analyst and has participated in more than 100 venture capital investments and investment banking transactions in his career. He is co-author, with Paul Sonkin, of Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street and is a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing, Illuminated, by Howard Marks; co-author of the history of value investing in Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas, a book celebrating the school’s 100-year anniversary; and co-author of The Gorilla Game: Picking Winners in High Technology, which reached BusinessWeek’s best-seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon for several weeks in 1998. Johnson has an M.B.A. in finance from the executive program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.