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Paul serves as Dean and university-wide Lead for Executive Education at the University of Miami. A transformative servant leader, Paul brings a campus-wide vision to higher education, enabling AI-driven innovation, championing research, propelling student success, fostering a sense of belonging, and promoting societal impact. A globally recognized AI thought leader with a record of advancing AAU/R1 institutions as chief academic officer, Paul is passionate about delivering tangible results in student success, sponsored research, revenue growth, interdisciplinary offerings, and philanthropy. Proven crisis leader, steering institutions through COVID-19, fiscal challenges, and pressures through shared governance, while ensuring stability and driving transformative impact.
At the University of Miami, Paul has reimagined higher education. Launched a transformational strategy positioning the University of Miami for Top 20 national recognition, achieving historic firsts: #1 graduate career placement, #2 global faculty research productivity, and #3 in executive education (Financial Times 2025). As university-wide continuing education lead, he positioned the University of Miami as a national model of AI-driven innovation and cross-campus collaboration with innovative interdisciplinary programs, industry partnerships, and global alliances.
Earlier, Paul served as Dean and Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business, where he led one of the largest business schools with over 9,000 students. Guided one of the nation’s largest universities through record enrollment growth (+40%), record student success (90%+ graduation and 99% job placement), and record philanthropy (over $150 million). He also led the MBA program into the Top 25 in the nation, and the undergraduate program in the Top 15 among public universities, all record firsts. During his tenure, Paul led the Entrepreneurship program to the #1 global ranking for five consecutive years (Princeton Review), a first anywhere. He also co-chaired the University of Houston’s athletics committee, which led to membership in the Big 12 conference.