Paul K.

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About Paul K.

Paul is an American business entrepreneur who has held various positions before becoming CEO at Apptical Corp. Today, Paul’s goals are simple: To make life insurance convenient to buy and affordable for all Americans. Paul began his career in 1987 at List Industries. While at List Industries, he earned his MBA from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida until he founded Apptical in 1988. Apptical provided data services for Credit Unions. Paul led the implementation of numerous solutions including data on demand in 1992 and an upgrade to image storage in 1998. The data processing operation was acquired in 2001 by Intercept, a publicly traded company. In 2002, Apptical acquired certain Assets from JR Health, an insurance teleunderwriting provider serving Life Insurance companies. The firm had had no automation, relying on pen and paper to collect data, file cabinets for storage, fax for communications and a basic a phone system with cassette recorders by each phone. After teaching himself object oriented programming, he was the system architect and wrote every line of code for Apptical’s first three insurance flagship products: LiveApp, SoundDecisions, and PURE. These products have since been re-invented and re-written from the ground up. As of 2016 the firm has 13 positions dedicated to software development. Paul currently directs the team as they enhance current offerings and develop new offerings such as AppticalMobile. Paul's other direct responsibilities include new business sales and customer executive relationship management. Paul has performed various duties as a volunteer at Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charities, The American Cancer Society, The Boca Raton Youth Athletic Association, Boca Hoops, and The Soccer Association of Boca Raton. Paul was a founding board member of the Best Foot Forward Foundation. Paul currently splits time between South Florida and Silicone Valley, California. Specialties: Efficiency Expert, Turnkey Solution Development in the Life Insurance Sales Process