Paul Callahan
Author, Door In Dark Water - A Catcher In The Rye Meets Moby Dick, White-knuckled, True Story
Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Callahan is a seasoned executive, founder, and author with over 40 years of hands-on experience spanning commercial fishing, product strategy, corporate development, and startup formation. He built and led product and corporate development teams at companies from Autocell and Airvana to Nortel and Bay Networks, licensing core technologies to major vendors and driving M&A and strategic investments. As founder of Coonian Research he advises on interim executive roles and product-to-market due diligence, known for making complex deals and partnerships “happen.” An award-winning storyteller, his memoir Door in Dark Water channels gritty, lived experience from a decade at sea into sharp cultural and human insights—a background that uniquely blends operational grit with strategic vision. Based in Carlisle, MA, he pairs entrepreneurial pragmatism with a talent for communicating market narratives that influence press, analysts, and partners.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Writing, Human Development, Bachelor's Degree, Writing, Human Development at Hampshire CollegeConcord-Carlisle High School
French
Github Skills (6)
installer7
php5
linux3
package-installer2
simple-gui2
grub1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pcallahan80/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:29 pushes in 3 months
phpinstallerpackage-installer
pcallahan80/MX-Panel
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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