Joseph Gerard Paul is Senior Vice President, Co-Chief Investment Officer of US Large Cap Value Equities and Co-Head of Strategic Equities. He has also served as CIO of the Advanced Value Fund since 1999. Paul was previously CIO of Small & Mid-Cap Value (2002–2008) and co-CIO of Real Estate Investments (2004–2008). Additionally, he was director of research for the Advanced Value Fund for two years. In that role, Paul was instrumental in the genesis of the Advanced Value leveraged hedge fund. He joined AB in 1987 as a research analyst covering the automotive industry and was named to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team every year from 1991 through 1996. Before joining the firm