Paul Hochman is the Gear and Technology Editor for the NBC TODAY Show and has become a fixture in sports and news programming nationally. He appears regularly on NBC and OLN, among others, and has covered Olympic gear and technology for NBC at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. He also covered gear and culture at the 2004 and 2005 Tour de France for OLN TV.

Mr. Hochman is also an established journalist and accomplished speaker. He is a writer for The New York Times’s new Sunday Magazine, called, PLAY; a frequent contributor for FORTUNE Magazine; the Gear Guy for Men’s Journal Magazine; a contributing editor for SKI Magazine and for eight years was the magazine’s Ski Test Director. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, which nominated him for an Olympic Media Award. He is a popular corporate presenter and has been a featured speaker at Carnegie Hall, the New York Athletic Club, and at the International Design Conference in Aspen, among others.


Finally, Mr. Hochman is an accomplished athlete. He is a black belt in the Uechi-Ryu style of Karate and was a three-year letter winner on the Dartmouth Men's Ski Team; he currently tests and writes about new equipment all over the world.

Mr. Hochman speaks French and Italian. He graduated cum Laude from Dartmouth College.