Our Team

Paul is the CEO of Partners Media. In his role, Paul leads the runs the business side of the publishing company. Paul 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. Paul hosts a webinar series on
YouTube called The Value of Growth. 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 is a co-author with Paul Sonkin 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 Business Week’s best seller list and was the number one best-selling investment book on Amazon.com for several weeks 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_.

Myles is the co-founder of Partners Media. Armed with an M.A. in Anglo-Irish literature, he was ideally suited to edit and publish global bestselling titles in investment, finance, and digital business. He founded Columbia Business School
Publishing, an imprint of Columbia University Press. Before that, he was CEO and founder of TEXERE, a publisher with offices in NYC, London, and Zurich, which he sold
to Thomson Reuters. As publisher of finance and investment at Wiley, he developed the premier publishing program in that category. He has been fortunate to publish million-copy sellers such as The Warren Buffett Way, Fooled by Randomness, Against the
Gods, Alchemy of Finance, and Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. He is honored to work with prestigious authors including Michael Bloomberg, Jack Bogle, Joe Stiglitz, George Soros, Nassim Taleb, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, and Peter Bernstein.

Robert Robotti is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Robotti & Company. Bob holds a BS from Bucknell University and an MBA in Accounting from Pace University. Prior to forming Robotti & Company, Incorporated in 1983, Bob worked as vice president and CFO at Gabelli & Company, Inc., and is currently an inactive CPA.

Bob serves on the Board of Directors of several publicly listed portfolio companies. NYSE-listed real estate company, AMREP Corporation, located in Germantown, PA, NYSE-listed Tidewater, Inc. which owns and operates one of the largest fleets of Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs) in the industry, and chairs the board of TSX-listed licenser of seismic data to the Oil and Gas Industry, Pulse Seismic. He was previously a board member of BMC Building Materials Holding Corporation, prior to its merger with Builders Firstsource and served on the board of Calgary based Mineral and Oil and Natural Gas royalty company PrarieSky Royalty Ltd.

In addition, he serves on the Boards of many non-profit organizations where he generously donates his time and expertise. Previously, Bob was a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies, established to examine the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other aspects of the federal securities law. Check the background of this investment professional on FINRA’s BrokerCheck

Professor Bruce C. N. Greenwald is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor Emeritus of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School and the academic Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing. Described by the New York Times as “a guru to Wall Street’s gurus,” Greenwald is an authority on value investing with additional expertise in productivity and the economics of information.

Greenwald has been recognized for his outstanding teaching abilities. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award which honors the best of Columbia’s teachers for maintaining the University’s longstanding reputation for educational excellence. His classes are consistently oversubscribed, with more than 650 students taking his courses every year in subjects such as Value Investing, Economics of Strategic Behavior, Globalization of Markets, and Strategic Management of Media.

Guy Spier is a Zurich-based investor and the author of The Education of a Value Investor. Since 1997, he has managed Aquamarine’s privately offered investment funds.

Guy previously worked as an investment banker in New York and as a management consultant in London and Paris. He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, class of 1993, and holds a First Class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. On graduating from Oxford, he was co- awarded the George Webb Medley prize for the best performance that year in economics.

Guy currently lives in Switzerland with his wife Lory and their three children, Eva, Isaac and Sarah.