As Founder and Principal of Tiburon Research Holdings, a technology, energy and financial research and investment organization, Paul Brahe has more than 25 years of experience in the technology, energy and financial sectors. Since beginning Tiburon in 2000, Mr. Brahe, with his partners, has founded numerous companies across multiple business sectors. Mr. Brahe also co-founded Newport Capital Bancorp, Newport Capital Asset Management Group and The Newport Capital Special Situations Fund. Prior to forming Tiburon Research and The Newport Capital group of companies, Mr. Brahe was the Director of Research at Preferred Capital Markets, a full service institutional, retail and online brokerage firm. Before joining Preferred Capital, Mr. Brahe was a founding partner with Apodaca-Johnston Investment Group, working as a hedge fund and mutual fund portfolio manager. During his time at Apodaca-Johnston, he helped the firm grow from $2 million to $800 million in assets.
Mr. Brahe’s experience also includes software programming, systems analysis, and security and systems design. He serves on several Board of Directors including formerly having served on the Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committees of Komag Inc. (Nasdaq: KOMG), a publicly traded independent supplier of disk drive media, that was recently sold to Western Digital Corp. Mr. Brahe holds a degree in economics from Stanford University and makes his home in Newport Beach, California.