Paul D. Sonkin

Paul D. Sonkin (New York, NY) was a portfolio manager at GAMCO Investors / Gabelli Funds. He was a co-Portfolio Manager of the TETON Westwood Mighty Mites Fund, a value fund which primarily invests in micro-cap equity securities. Sonkin has over 28 years of 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 was previously a senior analyst at First Manhattan & Co., and an analyst and portfolio manager at Royce & Associates, Inc. His employment also includes stints at Goldman Sachs & Co. and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Adelphi University. For 17 years, Sonkin was an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he taught courses on security analysis and value investing. For over 14 years, he was a member of the Executive Advisory Board of 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 (2001) Pitch the Perfect Investment (2017) and The Enduring Value of Roger Murray (2022).