Paul Borgese has worked on a wide variety of strategy and marketing initiatives with senior executives from global corporations and financial institutions, including: J.P. Morgan Chase, American Express, GE, Microsoft, Merck, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble and AT&T.

Paul is the co-author of the book, M&A From Planning to Integration: Executing Acquisitions and Increasing Shareholder Value, which was recently published by McGraw-Hill. He also is the author of several children's books, including When Fish Go Peopling, A Sunday Stroll and Hunting for the Whipperwoo. He recently released his first children's music album, Even the Monkeys Fall Out of the Trees.

Paul has conducted research and written books and articles on a wide array of business topics, including corporate banking relationships, outsourcing and leveraging information technology. He has served as a marketing executive and research director for two of the world's largest financial professional associations, Financial Executives International and the Association for Financial Professionals. He also has worked as a bank holding company examiner for the Federal Reserve System.

Paul recently held a Teaching Fellow position at New York University's Stern School of Business where he conducted research on corporate strategy and marketing. Paul also has consulted to the Wharton School on its distance-learning initiative, Wharton Direct.

Paul holds several degrees, including: a B.S. in economics from The Wharton School; a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania; an M.A. in literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, where he was a British Marshall Scholar; a master's in governmental administration from the Fels Center of Government, University of Pennsylvania; and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the Stern School of Business at NYU.

He serves on the advisory boards of StratLogic, a strategy and marketing consulting firm; FinQuest Partners, a financial advisory firm; and The Learning Consultants, which develops educational products and programs for corporations and educational institutions around the world.

Paul can be reached at 201-533-4434 or via email at pborgese@first-marketing.com.