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Paul A. Sampson - Senior Vice President, The Beam Group. Paul Sampson brings over 20 years of experience in Executive Search, Management Consulting, General Management, and Sales and Marketing to The Beam Group. He has a deep understanding of the consumer products industry from both a manufacturer and supplier perspective and has also successfully completed searches in Foodservice, OTC Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Internet/E-Commerce, Industrial Products, Marketing Services and Management Consulting. Paul's functional specialties include General Management, Marketing, Sales/Business Development, Market Research and Client Services.

The Beam Group is a well established, highly respected executive search firm with offices in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Connecticut. The Beam Group's affiliate, BeamPines Inc. has been providing leading-edge Executive Development and Human Resources support to Fortune 500 companies as well as the investment community for 25 years.

Prior to joining The Beam Group, Paul was the President of a nationally recognized retained executive search firm, O'Keefe & Associates, headquartered in Southport, Connecticut. In his eight years at the firm, Paul completed more than 100 searches for a diverse set of clients ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations.

Paul also spent seven years with a leading management consulting firm, Neo Inc., which specialized in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of Consumer Products sales organizations. As Group Vice President & COO, Paul was responsible for overall client management and ran the firm's four divisions - Research, Organizational Strategy & Design, Customer Marketing/Category Management, and Training & Development. He also played a key role in the negotiation and sale of Neo to Information Resources Inc. in 1994.

From 1984 to 1988, Paul worked in the market research industry for The Majers Corporation and Sami-Burke. At Majers, he had responsibility for the company's largest client, PepsiCo, and at Sami-Burke, Paul ran a joint venture with Market Metrics, a software firm that sold geo-demographic information to consumer products companies.

Early in his career, Paul received classical training in sales management and brand management with Johnson & Johnson and Nestle Foods.

Paul holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics & History from Colgate University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame where he majored in Marketing. He is active in career counseling to Colgate undergraduates and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

In addition to his executive search activities, Paul has worked with his wife Sue to launch an e-commerce website for her national window treatment business, HomeDecInASec. They have three daughters and live in Easton, Connecticut.