Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is a member of the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and has been an integral part of the Columbia Business School Value Investing Program for over 30 years. Remarkably young for his age, Paul has taught 62 semester-long courses on securities analysis and value investing to more than 3,500 full-time and executive MBA students. Paul received the Columbia Business School Executive MBA Commitment to Excellence award five times (2016, 2017, 2019 and twice in 2022) in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the students’ educational experience as well as the Columbia Business School’s Dean’s Prize for Teaching Excellence in April 2017. Paul hosts a webinar series on YouTube called The Value of Growth, which will be published as a hardcover book in 2026. 

Paul was the founding partner and investment manager of Nicusa Capital Partners, a private investment partnership that he started in 2003 and ran until December 2012. Paul is an expert in technology investing and participated in more than 100 venture capital investments and investment banking transactions in his career.

Paul is co-author with Paul Sonkin of Pitch the Perfect Investment, The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street, published in September 2017, and of The Enduring Value of Roger Murray, which was published in November 2022. Paul was a contributing annotator to The Most Important Thing, Illuminated, by Howard Marks (a book Warren Buffett considers to be one of the three most important investment books published); 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 in 1998. 

Paul 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.