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Early career


Paul founded the West Coast Regional offices of Bear Stearns & Company and later founded the West Coast Regional offices of CBWL Hayden Stone American Express. Paul was named as one of the top 12 elite securities analysts in the USA. For many years, Paul’s penchant for in depth research is well known, respected and admired in Wall Street. By age 24 Paul had traveled to 86 different countries.

During the 1960s, the titans of Wall Street who created today’s Wall Street movement and creation of capital included Senior Partners, Salem ‘Sy’ Lewis and Alan ‘Ace’ Greenberg of Bear Stearns, Chairman Sandy Weill, Vice Chairman Marshall Cogan and Arthur Levitt at CBWL Hayden Stone American Express. Paul was trained by the best. He has seen it all, done it all. Paul is one of the last men standing from this tree of Wall Street legends. Sandy Weill became Chairman of Citicorp, Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the SEC, Marshall Cogan, Chairman of Foamex Corp, Ace Greenberg, Chairman of Bear Stearns. In the 1960s, Sy Lewis and Gus Levy of Goldman Sachs invented Wall Street’s game as we know it today. Sy was Paul Cohen’s supervising Partner, mentor and close friend.

Bear Stearns West Coast Regional Office Opening, 1967. 

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Sy Lewis, Senior Partner. Clint Bidwell

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At the Helm
In 1997, Paul founded Cohen Independent Research Group, Inc. under a different name. In 2009, Paul founded Grass Roots Research and Distribution, Inc., which became the nation’s leading micro-cap IR research firm in terms of quality. In 2014, he combined both businesses into Cohen Grassroots Research, Inc. He was one of the first pioneers of Wall Street independent research. Paul was always interested in the micro-cap, small cap space, although his firms covered all public companies of any size. Over the years, Paul assembled his team, a brain trust of worldwide analysts at the CFA, CPA, PhD, MBA, MD levels including industry experts. This team has created the Gold Standard of IR Research. Their combined research documents define excellence and quality.

Tennis
Paul is well known in competition tennis. Paul built the tennis games of the Williams Sisters. Paul was a leading American junior player who played in the US National Junior Championships, Captain of the University of California, Berkeley’s tennis team, playing in the NCAA championships, a touring professional player who played in two Grand Slams, and became the first touring coach on the ATP men’s tour. Some of Paul’s students included ATP President Harold Solomon, Grand Slam winners: John McEnroe, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Michael Chang and many other world class men’s and women’s champions. Paul was the Advisory Davis Cup coach to the Nation of Israel, on the Board of Experts at World Tennis Magazine for 19 years, and was considered by many to be the leading tennis coach in the world.   

Arm Wrestling
Paul’s 45 year arm wrestling career included being an elite competitive world class arm wrestler, Head Referee and coach of National and World Champions.

  • 6 World Championships: 4 Arm Wrestling, 2 Grand Slams in Tennis
  • 1 World Record:  Oldest Arm Wrestler in the history of the sport to compete in an open Worlds Arm Wrestling Champonship
  • World Record: Started 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Italy

Credits:

Paul built the Williams Sisters tennis games

US National Junior Tennis Championships

US National Intercollegiate Tennis Championships, NCAAs

Two Tennis Grand Slams: U.S. Open, Australian Open

Instruction Editor: World Tennis Magazine

Advisory Davis Cup Coach, Israel

Tennis students include: McEnroe, Williams Sisters, Harold Solomon, Michael Chang. 150 other nationally ranked players 

Paul is both a world class arm wrestler and leading coach in the sport. On November 20, 2016, at the Zloty Tur World Championships in Rumia, Poland, Paul became the oldest athlete in the history of arm wrestling, to compete for an open World’s Championship.

Competion Credits: 4 World's arm wrestling championships 

2016 Zloty Tur World Arm Wrestling Championship

SENIOR MEN RIGHT 78KG

Name Nation
ANDERSON, OLIVEIRA
BRAZIL                                  
ANDERSSON, JESPER
SWEDEN
ASMONAS, MANTAS
LITHUANIA
BARTOSIEVICZ, DAVID
POLAND
BARTOSIEVICZ, PIOTR
POLAND
BODNAR, MYKOLA
UKRAINE
CASTRO, ANDRE
BRAZIL
COHEN, PAUL
USA
COOK, MICHAEL
USA
ERLICH, DOUGLAS
USA
GRAVIS, KASPARS
LATVIA
ISKANDAROV, KAZIMIR
RUSSIA
IVAHNENKO, BOGDAN
UKRAINE
KHOLDOROV, SHERZOD
UZBEKISTAN
KRASOVSKIS, VLADISLAVS
LATVIA
LOVEI, JOZSEF
FRANCE
MANARKA, SARUNAS
LITHUANIA
RAIHANOV, SHYNBOLAT
KAZAKHSTAN
RODRIGVES, CARLOS EDUARDO
BRAZIL
SAMUSHIA, DAVIT
GEORGIA
SHAMIYEV, MAGZHAN
KAZAKHSTAN
STSIAFANKA, ULADZISLAU
BELARUS
TRANDAFIR, MIHAIL FLORIN
SPAIN
WOZNY, RAFAL
POLAND

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