Paul Gangi

During the past 10 years since retiring from various executive level, corporate positions, Mr. Gangi has been an independent consultant serving a diverse group of clients. He has demonstrated a keen ability to leverage his extensive business experience and background offering a broad array of interdisciplinary services. These include strategic planning, marketing, financial and operational management, personal coaching, recruiting and placement, organizational optimization, sales training and incentive plans, cash flow management, and capital restructuring.

Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Gangi served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Harris Connect, Inc. Mr. Gangi has 20 years of experience in the social media industry. He also served as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President at Harris Connect, LLC. He joined Harris Connect from Dow Jones, where he served as Director of Service, Operations, and Development while launching Barron’s Online. Prior to this, he spent 8 years at Prodigy Services Company. Among Mr. Gangi’s accomplishments are: Launching internet e-mail and newsgroups on the Prodigy Service, launching the first e-mail applications with built in photographs and sound, and launching the first electronic greeting card application in partnership with American Greeting Cards. Mr. Gangi also migrated the Prodigy online shopping application from the proprietary Prodigy Service to the internet. He pioneered the industry’s first use of opt-out managed, targeted promotional email to Prodigy Service members driving online store traffic and purchases. Mr. Gangi began his career as a finance and business analyst for Irving Trust Company, Macmillan Publishers, and Harper & Row. He received his MBA from Pace University and a BS in Finance and Computer Science from Boston College.