Paul H. Stephens

Paul Stephens is a Chairman and Partner of SIM. Paul has been a leading figure in west coast asset management and investment banking for over thirty years. He is the co–founder and Managing Director of RS Investments. RS Investments (formerly Robertson Stephens Investment Management) is a San Francisco–based management group that manages over $7 billion in assets.

Paul was also a co–founder of Robertson Stephens & Company ("RSCO") with Sandy Robertson in 1978. While at RSCO, he initially headed up the firm’s research and institutional sales groups, before managing the Robertson Stephens venture capital group from 1984–1990. RSCO grew to become one of the world’s premier boutique investment banks, helping to finance hundreds of Silicon Valley growth companies. RSCO was sold to Bank of America in 1997 and then re–sold to BancBoston in 1998.

Paul spearheaded RSCO’s expansion into the asset management business and launched the Orphan Fund in 1990 and the Contrarian Fund in 1993. These funds were part of the foundation of the RSCO asset management business that would later become Robertson Stephens Investment Management.

Paul is a past Chairman and board member of the Haas Business School Advisory Board at the University of California at Berkeley. As an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Haas, Paul taught an investment class for ten years entitled "Investment Styles and Strategies" to second–year MBA students. He has also been an active board member of DUMAC (the Duke Management Company), which manages Duke University’s endowment fund, as well as a director of the U.C. Berkeley Foundation. In 2002, Paul was named a Berkeley Fellow. Paul holds both Bachelor’s (1967) and Master’s (1969) degrees in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.