Paul Wick is an old hand when it comes to tech investing. The veteran investor has navigated both shallow water and open sea in the tech industry for more than 30 years, a tenure that encompasses the dotcom bubble in the late 1990s, its bursting in the early 2000s, and the financial crisis in 2008. His success has earned him admiration from peers, and an enviable track record. The Columbia Seligman Technology and Information Fund (CCIZX) , which he started managing in 1990 when it was known as the Seligman Communications and Information Fund, is in the top quartile of funds in its category over the past 3-, 5- and 10 years, according to Morningstar. But Wick didn’t set out to be a technology investor when he started his investment career. When he landed at J & W Seligman & Co. fresh out of Duke in 1987, he was a