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Duke Corporate Education
310 Blackwell Street
Durham, NC 27701
USA

Paul describes himself as a broker of conversations.

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Paul Baerman

Director, Marketing

Supporting the company's thought leadership by orchestrating media relations, public affairs, and publications, Paul and his team hold responsibility for surveys, research and analysis; conferences and speakers; collateral materials; and Duke CE's web site.

In second grade he determined he would become a writer. Before arriving at Duke CE in 2005, he spent nearly 15 years with Duke University, most interestingly as speechwriter to the president.  He had also published peer-reviewed scholarly software, served as a financial analyst, and managed custom publishing and centralized digital printing for Duke. Along the way he helped establish Blue Shoe Technologies, a North Carolina programming firm specializing in multilingual word processing and training applications, and taught courses on American literature, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, speechwriting, and composition. Paul cut his teeth in marketing communications with Northern Telecom (now NorTel) in the 1980s. 

He holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, an MA in English Language, Literature and Research from the University of Virginia, and a BA (summa cum laude with highest honors) from the University of Rochester, where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa. A semi-professional oboist on weekends, Paul became a new father in 2006 and confesses to being enthralled by his son, Michael, of whom he will share photos on the flimsiest of excuses.  Paul's bow tie collection is the stuff of legend.