Paul Ai Allen

Paul Ai Allen

Kansas City Metropolitan Area
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Human beings are the greatest of all creations. You and I are blessed to be on our…

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    Soar.com

    Provo, Utah Area

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    Washington, DC

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    Provo, Utah Area

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    Mercer Island

Education

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    Brigham Young University

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    Also began masters program in Library Science at BYU, but dropped out to build first company.

  • Activities and Societies: Showed up for more high school yearbook club photos than anyone else. :)

  • Not bad at kick ball, but dominated in foursquare

Volunteer Experience

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    Speaker

    Global Peter Drucker Forum

    - Present 3 years 11 months

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    Honored to be a panelist at the 12th Global Peter Drucker forum, held virtually but coordinated from Vienna, Austria.

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Honors & Awards

  • Entrepreneur of the Year

    MarketingSherpa

    National award given in recognition of innovation in online marketing and customer acquisition. Under Paul's leadership Familylink's Facebook app "We're Related" went viral and was attracting one million new Facebook users per week.

  • Fellow

    Utah Genealogical Association

    The UGA Fellow award is given annually to one or two living individuals in recognition of their contributions and on-going commitment to the field of genealogy that are major in scope. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and speaking, or leadership. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and speaking, or leadership.

    Allen has made substantial contributions to the field of genealogy. He co-founded Ancestry.com in 1997 and was its…

    The UGA Fellow award is given annually to one or two living individuals in recognition of their contributions and on-going commitment to the field of genealogy that are major in scope. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and speaking, or leadership. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and speaking, or leadership.

    Allen has made substantial contributions to the field of genealogy. He co-founded Ancestry.com in 1997 and was its first CEO. He also served in several major roles before leaving the company in 2002.

    Allen is currently the CEO of World Vital Records, Inc., with a goal to provide access to billions of high quality records from all around the world to people who are doing genealogy and family history research. World Vital Records, Inc. also recently launched FamilyLink.com a free, social network for genealogists and families.

    "I feel very humbled by the UGA award. This honor was made possible by the wonderfully talented team at World Vital Records, many of whom were with me in the early years at Ancestry. We really want to make a difference in the genealogy and family history space,” said Paul Allen, CEO, World Vital Records, Inc.

  • Entrepreneur of the Year, 2000

    Ernst & Young

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  • Russian

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