Andrew Paulson
Andrew Paulson | |
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| Andrew Paulson Picture credit: Loic Landry | |
| Born | 1958 USA |
| Died | 07.18.2017 |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Andrew Paulson (born 1958) is an American entrepreneur. He is the son of noted American professor Ronald Paulson.
During his early years he worked with oncology and neurophysiology researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale University and at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. As an undergraduate he ran the classical music program at WYBC, a commercial radio station, and founded The New Theater Company where he produced and directed numerous plays.
Paulson graduated with a BA in French Literature and Literary Criticism from Yale University in 1981[1], and attended the Yale School of Drama. From 1982 to 86 he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing novels; from 1987 to 93 he lived in Paris, London and Milan, shooting fashion and advertising photography. During this period he co-founded (with Gilles Dusein) the Paris conceptual photography gallery Urbi et Orbi, and co-founded (with Kurt Novack) a graphic design studio, Pourriture Noble.
First invited to Russia by Dmitri Hvorostovsky to make a photo-reportage in the summer of 1993[2], Paulson began developing publishing projects in Moscow: Delovie Lyudi (Russian: Деловые люди) for the French Groupe Hersant, Ponedyelnik (Russian:Понедельник), an independent news/business weekly in partnership with Len Blavatnik, and Vechernyaya Moskva (Russian: Вечерняя Москва) a bi-weekly entertainment listings publication.
Shortly after the Russian financial crisis of August 1998, Paulson, together with Anton Kudryashov and Ilya Tsentsiper, founded Afisha,[3] an entertainment and listings magazine that became the cultural touchstone of Moscow and St. Petersburg.[3] Bolshoi Gorod (Russian: Большой Город), a free bi-weekly ”Sunday Magazine Section to a daily newspaper that doesn’t exist", was launched in 2002, and MIR, a monthly glossy travel magazine, was launched in 2003. To this day, Afisha Publishing House sets the high-water mark for independent magazine publishing in Russia and has produced a generation of journalists now transforming the political landscape.[4] The business was acquired by the Russian media group ProfMedia in 2005.[5]
In 2006, Paulson with Alexander Mamut founded SUP,[6]which became Russia’s largest online media company, consisting of LiveJournal[7] (the principal blogging platform/social network in Russia), Championat (the largest sports site in Russia), Gazeta (the largest news site in Russia), and an online sales house +SOL. In 2009, Kommersant Publishing House acquired a shareholding in SUP; Paulson is chairman of the Board of Directors.
In 2012, Paulson founded AGON Ltd, which was accorded the exclusive, long-term rights from the World Chess Federation to develop, organize and commercialize the World Chess Championship cycle.[8][9][10][11] The first events are to be held in 2013 in London, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Berlin and Istanbul.[12][13]
Paulson is on the advisory boards of several charities, foundations and technology companies: The Human Dignity Trust, The Weidenfeld Scholarships at Oxford, State, and M.I.P.R..
Died on July 18, 2017 from cancer[14].
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- ^ Bush, Jason (13). "The blogging czar of Moscow". Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ a b Danilova, Maria (16 October 2003). "Young PR guru goes from Kant to shampoo". The Moscow Times.
- ^ Idov, Michael (22 January 2012). "The new Decembrists". New York Magazine.
- ^ Mercer, Martha (13 March 2007). "A new image of Russia". The New York Sun.
- ^ Andrews, Robert (23 July 2008). "Russia's web revolution". Washington Post.
- ^ Arrington, Michael (2 December 2007). "TechCrunch".
- ^ "Entrepreneur Andrew Paulson seeks sponsors as he aims to bring World Chess to British TV screens in 2013". 6 June 2012.
- ^ Goodman, Matthew (27 May 2012). "If poker can make it on telly, so can chess". The Sunday Times.
- ^ Klara, Robert (20 June 2012). "A media mogul's daring move to make chess big". AdWeek.
- ^ Moss, Stephen (12 July 2012). "Chess impresario hopes to bring back the Fischer v Spassky glory days". The Guardian.
- ^ "Paulson: 'World cities will glorify chess'". Chessbase.com. 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Agon appoints Pentagram to reposition chess for the world stage". Chessbase.com. 14 June 2012.
- ^ "Умер один из основателей «Афиши» и компании SUP Эндрю Полсон". Коммерсантъ. 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2017-07-18.