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Paul Wright
Senior VP, Strategic Alliances & Marketing
Paul is responsible for identifying and implementing strategic partnerships across all areas for Mediaguide. Paul is a long-time music junkie with over 12 years of experience in the financial, business and creative sides of media.
Paul comes to Mediaguide from Frequency Media, the first company to electronically monitor college and non-commercial radio, which was acquired by Mediaguide, through his relationship with ASCAP, in 2002. Prior to founding Frequency Media, Paul was Manager of Corporate Development for Imax Corporation, the world leader in large format entertainment. Prior to Imax, Paul worked in the Media & Entertainment Corporate Finance Group at Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., a major-bracket New York investment bank.
Paul enjoys nearly any sport, especially soccer, SCUBA diving, live music at any time and volunteering for youth and civic activities. He has served as co-producer for 2 participatory documentary films, Learning To Live With Freedom, which explored the role of women before, during and after the fight for independence of East Timor; and Children of Katrina: Still Weathering The Storm, which provided 6 children displaced by Hurricane Katrina with cameras and training to tell their own story of survival and community re-building (www.stillweatheringthestorm.com).
Most recently, Paul completed a 2007 Pennsylvania Fellowship with the Center for Progressive Leadership and was named by the newly-elected Philadelphia Mayor to serve as Chairman for the Next Generation Branding Committee dedicated to bringing more attention to the strong communities that Philadelphia has across art, music, restaurants, boutique advertising, technology, film, TV and other cultural areas.
Paul graduated Cum Laude from Washington & Lee University with B.A. degrees in Economics (with honors) and Journalism.
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