Paul Sonkin

Sonkin was previously a portfolio manager at GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL). He was co-Portfolio Manager of the TETON Westwood Mighty Mites Fund, a value fund which primarily invests in micro-cap equity securities. He also served for four years on GAMCO’s Proxy Voting Committee. Paul has over 25 years’ experience researching small, micro and nanocap companies. Prior to analyzing stubs, spin-offs and micro-cap companies for GAMCO, Mr. Sonkin was for 14 years the portfolio manager of The Hummingbird Value Fund and the Tarsier Nanocap Value Fund.

Sonkin has significant public company board experience having sat on seven boards. In the past he has chaired Compensation and Nomination committees and has served as a member on Audit committees. He has been involved in all areas of strategic alternatives and financial engineering including outright sales, REIT conversions, spinoffs, contested proxy battles, divestitures, acquisitions, bankruptcies and senior management searches. He was recently a board member of Keweenaw Land Association (Pink: KEWL) where he is a member of the audit committee and executive search committee.

Paul holds an MBA from Columbia Business School (1995) and a B.A. in Economics from Adelphi University (1990). For 17 years, Paul was an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he taught courses on security analysis and value investing. For over 13 years he was a member of the advisory board of the The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing at Columbia Business School.

He is a co-author of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.) and Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.) He has also provided expert witness testimony and generated a report in a multimillion dollar legal case.