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A serial entrepreneur at heart, Paul has started or restarted 5 businesses in the past 30 years. He led teams at DataBeam, ELAN, VITAL Mgmt., BRAVAS Group and PrepTECH. He raised venture capital and completed two sell side transactions, a strategic and a financial buyer.  And, has four buy side transactions as well. Paul formed and secured financing for 15 home tech integration companies that became BRAVAS, LLC.

 

Paul authored Hitting for the Cycle a ‘how to’ management action book for the home technology integration business. He produces "Tuesday Morning Coffee", a weekly newsletter, is a frequent contributor to Technology Insider magazine and is an invited speaker at many CI industry and buying group events. 

 

With his VITAL MGMT partner, Steve Firszt, he created a cloud-based dashboard management system for Custom Integration owner/operators. Together they added over $96M in improved profits for 65 clients over 8 years. He pioneered online tech training (2003) at ELAN, has multiple product innovations to his credit, is an avid promoter and marketing maven and has been recognized as a CE Pro Master.  Paul led technology programs at Burroughs and Recognition Equipment. He is a past chairman of the Kentucky World Trade Center and served over 20 years on its executive committee.

 

He and his wife, Jerri, founded BUILDING BETTER LIVES, a foundation dedicated to helping victims of sex trafficking and domestic abuse. Together they have raised over $1.5M in donations and pledges.  

 

Paul earned a BS in Marketing from Bradley University and completed AMA Management program at Stanford University. Paul lives in San Diego with his wife, Jerri. They share four children, 11 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Paul has 11 brothers and sisters and grew up in a small town (St. Anne) in Eastern Illinois. He has done business in 14 countries.