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Paul joined Ogilvy PR in 2005 after 15 years as a journalist covering international business, finance, public affairs and technology at the Wall Street Journal, Asian Wall Street Journal and PC Week. He works with clients in Ogilvy’s corporate, public affairs and technology practices, focusing on strategic communications planning, message development, story development, media relations and crisis communications.

From 1998 to 2001, Paul was a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal in New York covering corporate finance. As the U.S. economy headed into a downturn in 2000, he led WSJ coverage of bankruptcies, corporate restructuring, turmoil in the junk-bond markets and vulture investors. His coverage of mergers and acquisitions included a wide range of multi-billion dollar U.S. and cross-border deals, long-running hostile takeover battles and private equity deals. He often wrote the widely-followed Heard on the Street column.

As the Asian Wall Street Journal’s Bangkok correspondent, he helped lead coverage of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, including the collapse of Thailand’s currency, banking system and stock market; the International Monetary Fund bailout; and the breakdown of the country’s financial and industrial corporations. He was part of a team of WSJ reporters who won an Overseas Press Club award in March 1998 for financial crisis coverage.

While in Thailand he also covered national elections, political crises, constitutional reform and government corruption; followed banking, telecom, semiconductors, steel, petrochemicals, power, advertising, and infrastructure; and wrote about social, development and environmental issues, including the investigation of a human-smuggling network that supplied Thai workers to California sweatshops.

Paul also spent five years as a reporter covering the computer industry at PC Week, much of that time as the senior reporter covering Microsoft.

While working as a freelance writer before joining Ogilvy PR, Paul wrote articles for the Trust for Public Land on urban parks creation, green cities and land conservation ballot initiatives, and wrote Targets of Suspicion, an American Immigration Law Foundation report on the Department of Homeland Security’s Special Registration program.

Paul is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, with a B.S. in Management.