Paul Johnson

Biography

Professor Johnson runs Nicusa Investment Advisors, an advisory firm focused on helping CEOs and Boards of Directors deal with strategy, capital allocation, shareholder value creation, and corporate governance. Johnson applies his 35 years of experience as an investment professional, combined with his 25 years as a business school professor, to help senior managers sort through these critical strategic issues.

Johnson has taught 38 semester-long courses on securities analysis and value investing to more than 1,900 students and was given the Commitment to Excellence award by both the 2016 and 2017 Executive MBA graduating classes in recognition of his outstanding commitment to their educational experience.

Johnson is co-author with Paul Sonkin of "Pitch the Perfect Investment, The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street", scheduled to be published in July 2017. Johnson is a contributing annotator to "The Most Important Thing Illuminated," by Howard Marks, and co-authored the history of value investing in "Columbia Business School: A Century of Ideas," a book celebrating the school’s 100-year anniversary. Johnson is also co-author of "The Gorilla Game, Picking Winners in High Technology," which reached Business Week’s best-seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon.com for several weeks in 1998. 

Johnson has an MBA 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. 

Education

• Executive MBA University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School (1989 — 1991)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of California, Berkeley (1979 — 1984)

Companies

• Senior Advisor Harbor Peak LLC (2018)
• Senior Research Advisor FinTech Think Tank, US (2018)
• Adjunct Professor Fordham Gabelli School of Business (2016)
• Fellow Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis at Fordham University (2015)
• Managing Director Nicusa Investment Advisors (2013)
• Adjunct Professor of Finance Columbia Business School (1992)
• Senior Advisor Bowen Advisors (2013 — 2016)
• Investment Manager Nicusa Capital Partners (2002 — 2012)
• Managing Director, Senior Technology Analyst Robertson Stephens & Co. (1994 — 2002)

Skills

• Investor Relations
• Due Diligence
• Equities

Other

Corporate Finance, Corporate Development, Hedge Funds, Portfolio Management, Alternative Investments, Financial Modeling, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Capital Markets, Valuation, Investments