William Paulin

Dr. William L. Paulin is the founding principal of Paulin Associates, an international business consulting firm specializing in global business development, strategic management, executive mentoring and business venture funding for aggressive, entrepreneurial, high-tech firms. Dr. Paulin has served on the Boards of Directors and Advisors of 24 companies in the United States and Europe. With more than 30 years senior executive and consulting experience in global and high tech business, Dr. Paulin has served on 24 boards of Directors and has held numerous senior executive positions (e.g., director of strategic planning, vice president of sales and marketing and president) in two Fortune 100 firms, several high-tech start-ups and several turn-arounds.

Since founding PaulinNeal Associates in 1990, Dr. Paulin has concentrated on mentoring, advising and performing interim executive roles for aggressive and globalizing high tech businesses. Recently, he has directed the successful launch of a number of European companies from various industries into the North American marketplace – one of which is now the global market share leader and two, USA share leaders.

Dr. Paulin has also been a professor or instructor of business administration at four universities in the United States (University of Washington, University of Southern California, University of California at San Diego and Pepperdine University) and two in Europe (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, Switzerland and Oulun Yliopisto, Finland). He is one if the founders of the prestigious Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Southern California and of the New Venture Initiative Program in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Internationally, Dr. Paulin co-founded Finland’s Bio PD and Global Software Programs and recently designed Finland’s Tekes Navigator (“Luotsi”) Program aggresive business leaders. Dr. Paulin continues part-time academic activities today in San Diego State University’s Entreprenuership Center and as a Board Member of Tampere University’s SKY Program, in Finland.

In May 2006, Dr. Paulin will be awarded the prestigious Honorary Doctor’s Degree by Finland’s University of Oulu for his contributions to both academe, government and business in that country.

Prior to entering the business world, Dr. Paulin was a practicing engineer in the aerospace industry and holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA in Finance and a Ph.D. in strategic management and entrepreneurship from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Paulin lives in San Diego with his wife Sandy and has two sons, Chris, a graduate engineer serving in the US Marine Corps Aviator program and Tim, a student football player at Columbia University.

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