President & CEO of StateNewslines, a nationwide community news network for state/local news & media monitoring
Charleston, West Virginia Area
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- President & CEO at StateNewslines, LLC
- Founder at ChatCable, LLC
- Principal at Premier Strategies, LLC
- Past
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- President/CEO at CornerStone Technology Group
- VP, Marketing/Business Development at CornerStone Technology Group
- President, CEO, Co-Founder at CityNet Corporation
- Education
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- WV State University
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Paul Helmick’s Summary
Paul is a successful serial entrepreneur who is driven and highly motivated to see startup companies launch and be successful. His focus is principally engaged in opportunities that engage national/global opportunities with an emphasis on disruptive innovation, speed to market, and leveraging communications/social networks to engage markets. He is skilled in directing teams using technology and talented people to create sustainable competitive advantages in a specific market niches.
His goals are to see others be successful in their specific pursuits and believes in helpings others by connecting them to people, resources and relationships that can help. Paul's business goals are focused on providing value and service to his companies customers and clients, providing a great place for employees to learn and grow, and creating successful financial outcomes/exits for his employees, partners & investors so everyone involved can reward themselves and grow.
Paul Helmick’s Specialties:
Paul has substantial experience/relationships in the areas of Business Startups/Turnarounds, Internet, Technology, Venture Capital, Intellectual Property Commercialization, Marketing/Sales/Business Development. Business brokerage helps business owners either buy/sell closely-held private companies with revenues of $2-$25M. Management consulting provides CEO-level experience to high-growth, entrepreneurial businesses who are challenged with their goals for growth.
Paul Helmick’s Experience
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President & CEO
StateNewslines, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)
Responsible for investor-led company launching over 100 interactive media properties providing state-based news/sports headline aggregation services. Daily headline indexing of over 9,000 traditional daily/weekly newspapers, television stations, magazines, college news, and other statewide news sources, StateNewslines.com is positioned as each states most comprehensive media resource. Newsline sites save the time of our readers who are busy, upper-income business professionals. Advertising revenues are provided by top-tier statewide/regional/national sponsors and paid clipping/press release services.
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Founder
ChatCable, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
We manufacture and sell globally a lightweight, inexpensive (VoIP) voice headset for laptop/desktop computers. The Chat Cable™ enables any mobile professional to talk for free using their computer and an internet connection. There are three models available, desktop, notebook and the most popular all-in-one earbud headset. This lets you voice chat using VoIP & Instant Messaging software such as Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Chat, AIM®, MySpace, ICQ® and Google® Talk or any PC-based softphone application.
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Principal
Premier Strategies, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
June 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)
Business Brokers. Help business owners sell privately held mid-market businesses with $2-$25 million in sales. Also serve as a buyers agent in prospecting for and finding acquisition and investment opportunities in selected markets/industries. Recent emphasis on coal/energy transactions has led to the firm setting up a global network of finders (coalbroker.com) to help match up buyer/seller deals in that industry working on a contingency/success fee basis. The firm's management consulting contingency-based practice has helped business owners use internet/digital technologies to increase company sales/revenues/profits .
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President/CEO
CornerStone Technology Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 6 months)
Regional Computer/Network Integration Firm merged with 5 additional technology companies (IP Telephony/Voice Communications, Small Business Tech Services, Web Development & Internet Services Provider) Combined staffing of approximately 100 professional staff. Provided application development, procurement services, network integration and IT consulting services to regional clients in healthcare, banking, insurance, law and manufacturing.
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VP, Marketing/Business Development
CornerStone Technology Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
July 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 6 months)
Computer Network Integration Firm. Joined the executive management team and led the firm's growth & branding from a locally owned MicroAge franchise primarily involved in hardware sales to a high-value professional services model growing the company to approx. $10 Million in annual sales.
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President, CEO, Co-Founder
CityNet Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
November 1994 — May 1997 (2 years 7 months)
WV's first and largest commercial internet service provider. Co-founded company at it's startup phase, secured venture capital funding (close to two million dollars) by 4 WV SBIC's.
Led CityNet rapid growth and expasion statewide by expanding dial-up internet points of presence, provisioning of high-capacity data services to large enterprise clients, and web-development services for hundreds of commercial businesses. Positioned the company as the major ISP in the state which created a successful exit for our capital partners when CityNet was purchased by a $3.4B bank holding company as a part of their emerging internet banking strategy.
Today, Citynet is a facilities-based network services provider serving 17 states and Washington, DC and offering wholesale long haul services that are scalable from DS-1 to OC-192 and provide services to carriers, government and Fortune 500 companies, as an integrated communications provider (ICP) in the Mid Atlantic and Midwest.
Paul Helmick’s Education
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WV State University
WV State College, A.A.S. Computer Science
WV State College, A.A.S. Electronic Engineering
WV State College, B.S. (almost :-), Marketing- Activities and Societies:
- Worked full time.. Went to college full time.. Not much free time :-)
Additional Information
Paul Helmick’s Websites:
Paul Helmick’s Interests:
Reading, Writing, Photography, Business, Technology, Raquetball, Coffee, IDPA Shooting, Travel (been to Japan and Brazil), Friends & Family.
Paul Helmick’s Groups:
IBBA, International Business Brokers Association, YPO, Young Presidents Organization, YPO former member and state treasurer for WV chapter, YMCA, YMCA Board of Directors Charleston, Rotary International, Charleston Rotary, BNI, Business Network International, Charleston Area Alliance, WVHTTF, WV High Technology Foundation, CityNet Friends, MATRIC, Mid-Atlantic Technology Research & Innovation Center, Bible Center Church, Served as Executive Director of Commercialization MATRIC, Served as Acting Executive Director of WV Venture Capital Connection, WV Entrepreneur Conference, CEO Friends, WV Vision Shared, Public Relations Society of America, WV Professionals
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CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community -
Rotary Club of Charleston, WV -
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Public Relations Society of America-West Virginia Chapter -
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YPO WPO -
Generation Charleston -
BNI West Virginia -
304blogs -
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Generation West Virginia -
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West Virginia Chamber of Commerce -
West Virgina Business Leaders: WVNewsline.com -
Kentucky Business Leaders: KYNewsline.com -
Ohio Business Leaders: OHNewsline.com -
Pennsylvania Business Leaders: PANewsline.com -
North Carolina Business Leaders: NCNewsline.com -
South Carolina Business Leaders: SCNewsline.com -
Maryland Business Leaders: MDNewsline.com -
Florida Business Leaders: FLNewsline.com -
Virgina Business Leaders: VANewsline.com -
DC Business Leaders: DCNewsline.com -
Vision Shared
Paul Helmick’s Honors:
Recognized as Who's Who in WV Business 2004, Recognized as WV Young Gun 2000, Honor Graduate US Army - NCO Leadership Academy - Fort Jackson SC, Distinguished Honor Graduate US Army - Tactical Communications 31V - Fort Sill OK
Paul Helmick’s Contact Settings
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