Paul hitchhiked to Colorado from Ohio after college “back in the day” when you could. After seeing the sun for the first time, he met a ski instructor, married her (36 years and counting), and procreated – twice raising two great young men.Paul Plvan has over 30 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and business management. Prior to becoming Executive Director Paul was a leader full-service national direct marketing firms where he was responsible for Fortune 500 marketing programs including, several of Time Inc’s publications, Apple’s K-12 marketing division, and VISA’s fund raising commitments to the United States Olympic Committee. At 31 Paul, founded a leading database marketing company DMX and built some of the original database marketing applications for the mutual fund industry introducing data mining to this industry. Paul was an executive with Excite Corp one of the original search portals and a director of Matchlogic, their data warehousing partner, where he constructed fully integrated data solutions for some of the largest databases in the world.Paul has interests in a franchising entity and a B2B demand generation company though his roots are now in Durango. Paul enjoys anything to do with the mountains, and is an albeit aging, slow, and dwindling talent on the hockey rink,..and loving it. Most importantly Paul loves kids, and the wonderful innocence that can change a world. Paul is an active mentor in Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado; and regularly gets schooled by a 17 year old named Harry his not so Little Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colorado