Paul Hobby

Paul Hobby

Founding and Managing Partner, Genesis Park

Mr. Hobby is the Managing Partner of Genesis Park, L.P.

Since its founding in late 1999 as a control equity investor, Genesis Park has executed numerous investments in communications infrastructure, renewable energy, remote security and automation. Genesis Park added a $275MM SBIC licensed credit fund, GP Capital Partners in 2021, and added a second $300MM SBIC Fund license in 2024.

As a Genesis Park principal, Mr. Hobby has served as Chairman or CEO of five different portfolio companies: Genesis Park Acquisition Company, Alpheus Communications, Texas Monthly, CapRock Communications, and a solar finance venture, Flic Financial. Prior to Genesis Park, Mr. Hobby conceived a strategy for integrating media operations through improved information technology. With Mr. Hobby as Executive Chairman, that company, Columbine JDS Systems, Inc., became the leading back office media software provider in the world before its sale in 1997.

Mr. Hobby has more than five decades of combined public company experience having served on the boards of NRG Energy, Eagle Global Logistics, Inc., Stewart Title, Coastal Banc, Amegy Bank of Texas, Aronex Pharmaceuticals, and Flowco. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Genesis Park Acquisition Company (NYSE:GNPK) from its inception until September 2, 2021.

Mr. Hobby is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he has been honored by the Raven Society, and the University of Texas School of Law, where he has served as an adjunct faculty member and been honored as an Outstanding Young Alumnus. He has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, the Jones School of Business at Rice University and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame in 2022.

He is former Chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership, the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Texas Ethics Commission, the Texas General Services Commission, and The Texas Business Hall of Fame. Mr. Hobby has held a variety of other community leadership positions over time.