Paul spent more than 25 years leading teams, designing systems, and studying what actually helps people thrive — not in theory, but under pressure, at scale, in the real world.

He's a 3x founder. A former VP of Technology Services at a leading FinTech firm. He's led enterprise sales, built high-performance teams, and navigated the kind of high-stakes decisions that most leadership books gloss over.

His academic background spans UNC (Philosophy), Michigan (MBA), Northwestern (*MSL), and Dartmouth Tuck (AML) — but the education that shaped him most doesn't fit on a diploma. It's the decades of inner work, the hard conversations, the patterns he learned to see only by living through them.

At PineWoodsAI, Paul designed the philosophical and ethical architecture that governs everything we build. His focus is on AI that behaves less like software and more like a trusted partner — perceptive, adaptive, and built to help people become more fully themselves.

He believes intelligence is relational. He believes relationships compound. And he believes technology can serve human flourishing — if we have the discipline to build it right.